Board Member Spotlight
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President
Battle Creek, Michigan
Tami Smith Keenan has been a court reporter since 1988 and an official reporter for the 37th Circuit Court in Battle Creek, MI since 1990. She has served on numerous MAPCR committees, their Board of Directors, and was the President of MAPCR for the 1999/2000 term.
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President-Elect
Worcester, Massachusetts
Nancy Varallo is the owner of The Varallo Group LLC, which offers court reporting, business development, and administrative support services to reporters and reporting firms. She began her court reporting career in 1979 and worked as a freelancer, a court reporting educator, and as a CART provider.
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Vice President
Jefferson, Ohio
Sarah Nageotte currently works as an official court reporter for the United States District Court, Northern District of Ohio. Prior to her current position, she had been an official reporter in the Common Pleas Courts of both Pennsylvania and Ohio since 1998.
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Secretary-Treasurer
Canandaigua, New York
Stephen A. Zinone, RPR, is an official court reporter from Pittsford, N.Y., who started out freelancing in 1985, working as a stenographer in the Monroe County Town courts and in the deposition arena.
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Immediate Past President
Portland, Oregon
Doug Friend became of member of NCRA in 1975. He is certified in Oregon, Washington and Nevada. Doug is a shareholder in Beovich Walter & Friend, Inc., in Portland, Ore., where he holds the official titles of Vice President and Secretary-Treasurer.
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Director
Monument, Colorado
Pat Graves is president of Caption First, Inc., where she works as lead realtime captioner. She has also worked as a freelance court reporter in New York, South Carolina, and Illinois.
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Director
Riverside, Calif.
Toni O’Neill, RPR, is a supervising court reporter with Riverside Superior Court in California. She has worked as an official since 1990. She previously worked as a freelancer, was part-owner of a firm, and taught at a court reporting school.
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Director
Helotes, Texas
Glyn Poage is an official court reporter in the 166th District Court, Bexar County, Texas. He has worked as a federal official, a freelance court reporter, and as a court reporting instructor.
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Director
Scottsdale, AZ
Doreen Sutton, RPR, has been a freelance court reporter for 20 years and currently runs her own firm. She has also worked per-diem for the courts and has previous experience in banking, bookkeeping, payroll, and accounting.
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Director
Atlanta, Georgia
Heidi C. Thomas has been a court reporter since 1978, and a CART provider/captioner since 1989. She has served on the faculty/training staff for NCRA, and was on the Realtime Certification Committee at NCRA for 6 years.
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Director
Cedar Rapids, Ia
Karen Teig, RPR, CRR, CMRS, is currently an official reporter in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. A reporter since 1975, she has worked as a freelancer with firms and also on her own, as well as providing CART to the hearing impaired.
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Director
Rothschild, Wisconsin
Chris Willette has been a freelance reporter in Wisconsin since 1985 and is currently the owner of Willette Court Reporting, LLC. She has been a member of NCRA since 1984 and has served on the NCSA Governing Board.
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Director
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Nativa (Tiva) P. Wood has been an official reporter with the Dauphin County Court of Common Pleas, Harrisburg, Pa., for 35 years; for the last 10 years, she has worked as chief reporter.
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Director
Long Valley, New Jersey
Viola S. Zborowski a freelance court reporter, became a certified court reporter in New Jersey in 1981, a Registered Professional Reporter in November 1980, a Registered Merit Reporter in May 1983, and a Certified Realtime Reporter in October 1994.
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Executive Director & Chief Executive Officer
Vienna, Virginia
Jim Cudahy has more than 20 years of experience as an association executive and was appointed NCRA's executive director and CEO in June of 2012.
