Education: B.Arch., University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 1966; at UCB, she worked with Joseph Esherick, Harold Stump, and Donald Reay; Draftswoman, Van Bourg/Nakamura Associates, San Francisco, CA; Designer, D'Amico Associates, Mill Valley, CA, Designer, Hawley And Peterson, Mountain View, CA; Designer, Spencer Associates, Palo Alto, CA; Founder, Principal, SLR Architects, 1976-1998; Former Chair and Board Member of the Palo Alto Architectural Review Board; Former Director, Santa Clara Valley Chapter, American Institute of Architects; Former President, California Women in Environmental Design; member, Organization of Women Architects (OWA), the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI), and the Union Internationale des Femmes Architectes (UIFA);

Her family immigrated to Oakland, CA, from Bremerhaven, Germany, in 1953;