Board

2009 OFFICERS

President: Julie Casey Martinez
President-Emeritus: Stephanie Barclay
Vice President: Christine Dietrick                 
Secretary: Elisabeth (Lisa) Sperow 
Membership: Alicia Valdez Wright      
Treasurer: Yes.
Technology: Sada Andrews           
Publicity: Robbi Rizzo
CWLA Delegate: Jacqueline Frederick

Directors: Angie King, Katie Shore

Julie Casey Martinez is an attorney with Andre, Morris & Buttery in its Civil Litigation Practice Group.  She is a graduate of the University of California, San Diego and the University of Notre Dame School of Law.

Stephanie Barclay is an associate with Ogden & Fricks LLP in San Luis Obispo, where she specializes in business and real estate litigation and transactions.  She is a former Deputy Attorney General with the Calfornia Attorney General's Office in San Francisco where she prosecuted false claims cases.  She is a graduate of U.C. Davis (1988) and Santa Clara University School of Law (1996).

Christine Dietrick has held the position of Assistant City Attorney for San Luis Obispo since 2005. Prior to accepting that position she was a municipal law practitioner and civil litigator with private firms in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara. Christine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and Northeastern University School of Law.

Elisabeth (Lisa) Sperow is a lecturer in the areas of Business Law, International Law and Employment Law at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California.  Prior to that she was a trial attorney with the United States Department of Justice, Civil Division, Commercial Litigation Branch in Washington, D.C. She obtained a degree in International Relations from the University of California, Davis and a law degree from the University of Oklahoma.

Sada Andrews is the community relations manager at Lifewater International and lecturer in Political Science at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo. Specializing in human rights and development, she is a graduate of William & Mary School of Law and the University of London.

Robbi Rizzo is a sole practitioner, specializing in adoption and family law. Having spent her first career in the business world, she returned to school to obtain her law degree from U.C. Berkeley (Boalt Hall).

Past Presidents

1981-82   Donna Beck
1983         Patricia Ashbaugh
1984         Barbara McCallum
1985         Patricia A. Stevens
1986         Anne M. Russell
1987         Karen S. Gray
1988         Mary Harris
1989         Suzanne Fryer
1990         Jan Howell Marx
1991         Phyllis Pennington
1992         Karen Medeiros
1993         Angie King
1994         Ann Bell Wilson
1995         Jalynne Giles
1996         Wendy C. Kramer
1997         Kathryn “Katie” Shore
1998         Betty R. Sanders
1999         Jacqueline Vitti Frederick
2000         Midori Hill Feldman
2001         Dinah Palmtag
2002         Kimberly Daniels
2003         Angie King
2004         Jill Buckley
2005         Margaret (P.J.) Webb
2006         Kathy Eppright
2007         Nancy Warren

2008         Stephanie Barclay