President David R. Roy, CCR, CSR, CLR, RPR, received his first Court Reporting Certification, Certified Court Reporter, from the Court Reporting Institute of Dallas (CRID) in 1995 and is now a licensed Certified Court Reporter in Texas, Georgia, California, Washington State, and Arizona, and has also received his RPR.
David worked as a freelance reporter for 13 years, which enabled him to travel to Germany, England, France, Spain, Portugal, India, Brazil, Turkey, Bermuda, Thailand, and Norway while taking testimony in all types of law. Obviously, David loves travel and adventure. 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.
He now is an official for County Court at Law No. 4 in Dallas County.
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 eagerly assumed the mantle of President of the Dallas Court Reporters Association for 2008.
Contact: (214) 653-7468 | drroycsr@aol.com
President Elect Jaimie Israelow has been reporting for almost 18 years, most of which has been comprised of depositions, hearings, arbitrations and meetings. She graduated from the Arlington Court Reporting College. Jamie served as DCRA Treasurer in 1999 and 2000.
Jamie worked for Looney & Company from June 1990 to May 1991, Dolores Stewart & Associates from June 1991 to March 1993, Fuller & Parker from March 1993 to May 1998, MillerParker, Inc. from May 1998 to February 2007, and US Legal Support/MillerParker, Inc. from February 2007 to July 2007.
In August 2007, she formed JKI Reporting, and is now an independent reporter providing overflow work for various reporting firms. Her main focus is realtime reporting.
Jamie has been proctoring the CRR exam in Dallas since 2005.
Her hobby is spending time with her family, and her five-year-old, Miles, takes up most of her time. She also enjoys reading books and watching movies, although in the last five years most of the movies have been Disney movies.
Jamie enjoys traveling, especially to exotic beaches. She and her husband, Steve, try to take at least one vacation a year, just the two of them.
Contact: (817) 999-9956 | israelow.jamie@sbcglobal.net
Vice President Janet Wright has been a court reporter for 30 thirty 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
Secretary
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 during her sophomore year in high school. Her duties included helping the police dispatchers, dispatching calls, typing offense reports, and assisting with traffic court.
One day while going on an errand to the local courthouse with the assistant police chief, she walked into one of the courtrooms. While they were there, she became intrigued with the person typing on some little machine. It was love at first sight.
Vielica asked the person, what is that machine and how do you do that? The reporter explained she was a court stenographer and the machine was a Stenograph machine and she had gone to school to learn how to read and write steno.
From then on, every time Vielica went to the courthouse, she would take the opportunity to talk with the court stenographer and inquire more about the skill of court reporting.
Vielica moved to Dallas in July of 1990 and a year later enrolled in the Professional Court Reporting School in Richardson, Texas. She already knew she wanted to be an official reporter, be it state or federal court.
After she got to her 140 speed, to stay encouraged she would go to the courthouse and write and picture herself being the official reporter. Three years later Vielica was transformed. After graduation, she did overflow work for two freelance firms in Dallas while still working full time at Planned Parenthood.
Six months later God opened a door for Vielica to interview as a part-time captioner in Houston. Before her interview, she decided to visit the courthouses there and pass out cards. Everyone she met was so receptive and encouraging. To her chagrin, it made up for her captioning interview being canceled. She likes to tell everyone it was a setup by God to get her to even consider moving to Houston in the first place.
Needless to say, Vielica moved to Houston off of a week's work as a sub in court and never looked back. The original plan was to caption part-time and sub in court to supplement her income. Vielica never went without work in Houston.
While there, 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 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
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 '06.
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 Dawn Green Dawn Green attended CRID and worked multiple jobs, including a full-time position at United American Reporting, where she did written questions. Dawn became certified in July of 1993. She is a member of NCRA, TCRA, and DCRA. Dawn is on her second term serving as DCRA's Historian. Dawn is a freelance reporter and has been with Sunbelt Reporting since March of 2005.
Dawn enjoys working with and motivating student reporters. Her motto has always been: What the mind conceives and the heart believes, the body achieves.
Dawn is a certified aerobics instructor. In her spare time, she continues to finish-out her house, doing all that she is able to do herself. Dawn is dedicated to her family. She helps out her father and family members as much as possible, and enjoys spending time with her nephew, Michael. She has two pets that were rescued from Casa De Critter: her dog, Roxzie, a Catahoula leopard Lab mix, and her cat, Maxx, a seal point chocolate Himalayan.
Dawn is newly engaged to a wonderful guy that she knew from high school. She loves animals, skiing, photography, plants, decorating, reinventing old stuff, garage sales, recycling, and maintaining her lot in River Oaks.
Contact: (817) 368-5477 | dawng1@verizon.net
Immediate Past President
Jana Bald, CSR, CMRS, CLR, started court reporting school at Houston Community College in 1987. Beginning in September of 1987, while a student, Jana worked part-time with Sunbelt Reporting. After obtaining her CSR in 1989, Jana became a full-time court reporter employee with Sunbelt Reporting and enjoyed reporting locally and internationally.
In December of 1999, Jana moved to Dallas to open Sunbelt Reporting's Dallas office and now works there as the managing reporter.
Jana has worked on the Student/Reporter Committee for TCRA in 1999 and 2005. She was Vice President of the Dallas Court Reporters Association in 2005 and worked extensively on the Habitat for Humanity project in that role in conjunction with the Dallas Bar Association.
Jana obtained her CMRS certification in 2005.
On a personal note, Jana has been married 24 years and has a six-year-old son that she enjoys spending her free time with. She also enjoys all water sports and loves the beach.
Contact: (972) 401-9732 | jbald@sunbletreporting.com
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