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Education:
    I graduated from East Bakersfield High School (January, 1978).
    I earned my Associate in Arts Degree in Administration of Justice here at Bakersfield College (January, 1981).
    I attended Cal. State Bakersfield until I transferred to Western State University, where I earned a Bachelor of Science in Laws (May, 1987) and Juris Doctor (December, 1988) Degrees.
    I then returned to California State University Bakersfield and received a Master of Public Administration Degree (May, 1992).

Professionally:
    Out of high school, I worked for a security company; then for an alarm company.  I then worked in retail management until I went to work for the Kern County Probation Department - Juvenile Division. 
    I was a Group Counselor at Kern Youth Facility and then later at Juvenile Hall.  I was assigned to the Youth Authority Unit and then to the Camp Owen Unit.  (These were the units where wards of the court were housed pending their transfer to the respective facilities.)
    During my employment at Juvenile Hall, I became a Reserve Police Officer for the Bakersfield Police Department. I then was hired full-time as a Police Officer for the City of Bakersfield and graduated from the 33rd Kern County Peace Officers' Academy.

       I then left the B.P.D. and went to work in the Bureau of Investigations for the Kern County District Attorney. 
    From there, I became a Deputy Sheriff where I was assigned to the Court Services Unit, then the Lerdo Medium - Maximum Jail Facility and would work over-time in local patrol as well as patrol at the Taft Substation for the Kern County Sheriff's Dept.
    Thinking that I wanted to practice law, I left law enforcement, went to work as a Private Investigator (for Mitch Rowland, who was my Training Officer while I was at the B.P.D.) and started my twice weekly commute to Fullerton.
    After three and a half years of law school and the P.I. business, I went to work for a law firm whose practice was primarily plaintiff's personal injury litigation and business transactions and litigation.  I then worked for a law firm whose primary emphasis was criminal defense and some family law.
    This second firm broke up their partnership and by circumstance I started my own business, Pretrial Services, providing legal research and writing services, private investigations and process service to lawyers in the state courts of Kern, Tulare and Fresno Counties.  The bulk of my work was in criminal defense, however I worked on civil cases as well, and had exposure to almost every facet of law. I also worked as a Correctional Counselor for Turning Point of Central California at the Work Furlough Re-Entry Residential Facility in Bakersfield and then later at the Women-Infant program in Arvin.

Teaching Experience:
    My first teaching position was in a Paralegal Program for a private business college here in Bakersfield. 
    I then was hired as a part-time instructor for West Hills Community College District, whose main campus is in Coalinga with a campus in Lemoore and at the Lemoore Naval Air Station.
    During the Spring Semester, 1997, I was hired as the Sabbatical Replacement Department Chair for Criminal Justice at Bakersfield College, and have remained as an Instructor ever since. In the Spring, 2004 semester, I was asked and gladly accepted the opportunity to teach for the Political Science Department (American Government) on a regular basis. Spring, '06 I added Business Law to my list of classes that I teach.
 I previously served as the Interim Campus Director for the Delano Campus Center for Bakersfield College.
    From 2007 - 2011, I was the Program Coordinator of the corrections training program at WESTEC (a collaboration with Bakersfield College), a vocational program of study that includes a Correctional Officer Academy as well as In-Service Training. I taught a variety of courses in the program. 

       
I am a Certified Instructor of Baton & Arrest and Control Methods from the Koga Institute.

Other Employment Experience:
    Because teaching had left me with some extra time on my hands during the day, and because I am a workaholic by nature, I have taken other part-time work which has included as a Security Officer for Kern Water Bank Authority, an Equipment Operator for the City of Bakersfield, as well as having worked as an Assignment Editor for the News Department of the ABC Television Affiliate here in Bakersfield.        
Therefore, I am able to bring vast experience and present a holistic approach to teaching and explaining criminal justice to my classes.       

Past Time: 
I volunteer for the Kern Medical Reserve Corps.
For 9 years, I served on the Board of Directors for the Kern Youth Connection, a non-profit organization for "at-risk" youth.

I Refereed for College and and High School Soccer.  (Interpreting and Administering a different set of laws.)  I also refereed U.S.S.F. club soccer, (see Cal South) and volunteered for American Youth Soccer Organization at Region 73. In 2005, I was invited to work as an Assistant Referee at the California Community College State Championships, Men's-final game. (It was exciting!) In July, 2004, I refereed at the A.Y.S.O. National Games held at the Lancaster, CA National Soccer Center.

 
    N.C.A.A. game 2003                                                  California Community College Game, 2005
 

I was also an umpire of fast-pitch softball (High School and Amateur Softball Assoc.). My daughter, Candyce, and I earned our Black Belts from Order of the Dragon Karate in 2002.

My Family: 

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