 Some report she is a member of the Supreme Court Bar and the Pennsylvania Bar, but she is not listed as either an active or inactive member of that bar.Throughout most of her career she has worked for many agencies and commissions of the U.S. federal government which included working as a civil rights specialist for the Economic Development Administration from 1976 to 1979, an investigator for veterans reemployment rights at the United States Department of Labor from 1981 to 1983, an EEO manager for the United States Naval District of Washington from 1985 to 1986, an attorney for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from 1986 to 1987, the Associate Director of the Office of Advocacy and Enterprise at the United States Department of Agriculture from 1987 to 1990, a temporary EEO specialist for the Federal Aviation Administration from 1991 to 1993, the Director of the Office of Equal Employment at the National Institutes of Health from 1994 to 2003, and the Director of the Office of Opportunity, Inclusiveness and Compliance at the Library of Congress from 2009 to 2011.She retired from federal service in 2011 and got involved in state service in 2012.