With more than 25 years of experience in real estate appraisal, this expert specializes in property valuation, eminent domain, partial takings, easement valuation, ad valorem taxation, zoning, estate tax matters, and damage assessment. Her appraisal experience includes leased fee, leasehold, and partial interests; aerial, sewer, utility, slope, channel, temporary construction, conservation, scenic preservation, powerline, and avigation easements; and damages associated with proximity, loss of parking, grade changes, loss of income, and other impacts to remaining property. She has appraised residential, commercial, industrial, and special-purpose properties, including office buildings, shopping centers, manufacturing facilities, warehouses, hospitals, schools, municipal facilities, subdivisions, vacant land, and other real estate. She has more than 25 years of expert witness experience providing consultations, depositions, and courtroom testimony and has qualified as an expert witness in courts and boards of revision.

Her professional background includes service as President and Owner of a real estate appraisal and appraisal review firm, where her work has focused on real property appraisal, appraisal review, valuation consulting, eminent domain, property taxation, estate tax valuation, and expert witness services. Her experience includes appraisals of total and partial takings, complex easements, residue properties, and mass property acquisitions, as well as market studies and damage and benefit studies. She has also performed appraisal reviews for public agencies and has experience applying governmental appraisal policies and procedures. Her assignments have involved public agencies and private property owners and include valuation of properties affected by roadway expansions, sewer projects, utility corridors, powerline easements, transportation projects, airport noise, and other public infrastructure projects.

Her educational background includes a Bachelor's degree with concentrations in Real Estate and Psychology, supplemented by extensive professional coursework in real property appraisal, capitalization theory, report writing, advanced market analysis, highest and best use, appraisal review, partial interests, subdivision analysis, litigation appraisal, federal land acquisition, and commercial property valuation. She holds the MAI and SRA designations from the Appraisal Institute, is a Certified General Real Estate Appraiser, and has been prequalified for real estate appraisal, appraisal review, and value analysis. Her professional involvement includes service on the Board of Directors of the Appraisal Institute's Northern Ohio Chapter and as an MAI Candidate Liaison for the chapter.