President Jamie K. Israelow, CSR, RPR, CRR, CLR, has been reporting since April 1990. She graduated from the Arlington Court Reporting College and began her career in court reporting. Most of her work is comprised of depositions, hearings, arbitrations and meetings. For one year, she provided CART for a hearing-impaired student at the University of Dallas in Richardson. Jamie served as DCRA Treasurer in 1999 and 2000 and President-Elect in 2008.
Jamie has worked for various court reporting companies until she went independent at the end of July 2007. In August 2007, she formed JKI Reporting and is now an independent reporter providing realtime reporting services and overflow work for various reporting firms. The main focus of her work is realtime reporting.
Jamie has been proctoring the NCRA Certified Realtime Reporter exam in Dallas since 2005.
Jamie has been married since July of 1987 and has a six-year-old son. Her hobbies include spending as much time with her family as she can. When time permits, she enjoys reading books and watching movies. Jamie and her family also enjoy traveling.
Contact: (817) 999-9956 | israelow.jamie@sbcglobal.net
President-Elect Janet Wright, CSR, RPR, has been a court reporter for 31 years. She graduated from Dallas Court Reporting College in 1979 and began a career that has covered freelance and official reporting. She is currently an official in County Court at Law No. 3 for Judge Sally Montgomery.
Previously, she was Judge Barefoot Sanders’ court reporter in Federal District Court. In a freelance capacity, she worked for Judges Maguire and Felsenthal in Bankruptcy Court and covered federal grand jury testimony and depositions for the United States Attorney’s Office. While working for Judge Felsenthal, it became necessary for him to take her to the hospital from the courtroom, where her youngest child was soon born.
Janet provides realtime reporting for Judge Montgomery, who has a hearing loss. She has obtained the RPR and the written portion and two legs of the RMR and, ultimately, WILL get her CRR.
Contact: (214)653-7831 | jwrightcsr@aol.com
Vice President Vielica Dobbins, CSR, RPR, is a native West Texan. She graduated from Odessa Permian High School. Vielica was first introduced to the reporting profession while working a summer job at the Kermit Police Department. One day while going on an errand to the local courthouse with the assistant police chief, she walked into one of the courtrooms and became intrigued with the person typing on some little machine. It was love at first sight.
Vielica moved to Dallas in July of 1990 and a year later enrolled in the Professional Court Reporting School in Richardson, Texas. After graduation, God opened a door for Vielica to interview as a part-time captioner in Houston. While in Houston, she worked as a deputy official court reporter in various courts, before landing a permanent position in the 314th District Court with the associate judge. A year later she became the official court reporter for the 314th District Court. In January 2000, Vielica moved back to Dallas to become the official of County Criminal Court No. 11, where she is currently employed.
Her professional memberships include Dallas Court Reporters Association, National Court Reporters Association, Texas Court Reporters Association, National Black Court Reporters Association, and she is a former member of Houston Court Reporters Association.
Vielica received her RPR in 1999 and is working toward her CRR and RMR. She gives back to the court reporting community by allowing students and newly licensed reporters to intern in her courtroom and by imparting knowledge and mentoring them for the working world.
During downtime, she enjoys being a proud parent of two children, Taviera and Sparky (her four-legged son) and granddaughter Amari. She attends The Potter's House Church and serves in ministry there.
Contact: (214) 712-5079 | vielica@sbcglobal.net
Secretary
Tanner Joy Feast, CSR, became newly certified as of 2008. She began court reporting school in Louisiana in 2002 and continued school in Texas in 2006. She graduated from the Court Reporting Institute of Dallas with an A.A.S. in Court Reporting in 2008. She is presently working as a freelance reporter for KX&Associates. Prior to her reporting career, she co-owned and managed a daycare center with her mother from 2000-2005. She first started working in the offices of KX&Associates in 2007.
Her hobbies include watching movies and trying to cook new recipes with her children. Tanner’s goals include obtaining her RPR this year and providing realtime services by next year.
Contact: (972) 358-7709 | tannerjoyfeast@yahoo.com
Treasurer Patricia Holt, CSR, was born in Queens, New York, where she lived until moving to Dallas when she was 14 years old. She graduated from R.L. Turner High School in 1980 and attended junior colleges in pursuit of a career goal.
While court reporting was always a desire, Patricia was told that "technological advances" and the "computer age" threatened the existence of the court reporting profession, so she continued her career in accounting. After several years, she turned toward a career in human resources, which kept her happy for eight more years.
Finally, in 1998 when the court reporting profession was still going strong, Patricia enrolled in school at the Profession Career College in Richardson, Texas. In 2001, she transferred to the Court Reporting Institute of Dallas where she graduated in May of 2004.
Patricia works as a freelance reporter for deposition firms and the criminal court system in both Dallas and Fort Worth. She enjoys her work very much and wishes she had taken this career path many years ago.
Patricia has been happily married to her husband David since June of 1999. They have no children. They do have a four-year-old dog named Sable, rescued from the SPCA in April of 2006.
Patricia is a member of the DCRA and served as historian in 2006. She is also a member of the National Court Reporters Association.
Contact: (972) 741-7086 | patty.holt@sbcglobal.net
Historian Destiny Calahan, CSR, graduated from Texas State University, San Marcos, in 2005 with a bachelor’s degree in history and political science. She then attended the Court Reporting Institute of Dallas and received her associate’s degree in court reporting and became a Certified Shorthand Reporter in June of 2008. She has been working for Eidd Reporting, Video & Records, Inc. since July of 2007 and has been a member of DCRA since June of 2008.
Contact: (817) 797-6677 | calahan1230@hotmail.com
Immediate Past President
David R. Roy, CCR, CSR, CLR, RPR, graduated from the Court Reporting Institute of Dallas (CRID) in 1995. He is now a licensed Certified Court Reporter in Georgia, Texas, California, Washington State, and Arizona, and has also received his RPR certification. David worked as a freelance reporter for 13 years, which has allowed him to travel to Germany, England, France, Spain, Portugal, India, Brazil, Turkey, Bermuda, Thailand, and Norway, taking testimony in all types of law. Obviously, David loves travel and adventure. He now is an official for County Court at Law No. 4 in Dallas County. He also relishes the thrill he experiences after overcoming a good challenge, which is why court reporting is the ideal career for him. David strives to be the best at whatever he attempts, pushing himself each day to write better than he did the day before.
What David enjoys most is spending quiet time at home with his partner and best friend Jeffrey Payne, along with their beloved pets, the “boys,” poodles Korbin and Konner, and the “girls,” dachshunds Isabella and Lucy. David feels that all court reporters should give back to the profession that has been so good to them all. It is for this reason that he has eagerly been involved with the Dallas Court Reporters Association, serving on their Executive Committee for the past four years.
Contact: (214) 653-7468 | drroycsr@aol.com
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