Qualifications 

Education

  A.B. University of California, Santa Barbara                                             

  J.D. University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall)

Military

  U.S. Army: Captain, Armor (RVN: 1971)


Employment

  Deputy District Attorney Santa Barbara & Alameda Counties 1966-1969

  Private Practice:   Partner, Westwick & Collison 1976-1980

                                     Partner, Mullen & Henzell 1983 - 2000

                                        Burke Family Law 2000 - present

Organizations

  Santa Barbara County Bar Association: President: 1980

   State Bar Association: 1969 to present

   Association of Family & Conciliation Courts 

   Association of Psychological Type (Qualified to administer MBTI)

   Santa Barbara Middle School, Board of Trustees (1993 to 2000)

   Cholmondeley: 2008  to present 

Teaching

  Santa Barbara College of Law:  Community Property, Alternative Dispute
  Resolution (1998 - 2007)

  University of California, Santa Barbara (Extension) Legal Assistant Certification
  classes in Family Law, Criminal Law, Civil Procedure Real Estate

  Cholmondeley Productions (Continuing Legal Education Provider) Principal 1998
   to  present

Martindale-Hubble Rating           

  AV  Martindale Hubble Ratings explained 

Publications

  Santa Barbara Divorce: Six-year longitudinal study (Census 1997-2003)[2009]

  Santa Barbara Divorce: Six-year longitudinal study (Replication by sample 2001-
  07) [2010]

  Using the Stage Model of Grief in Law & Mediation Practice   Video Instruction
   5-part series 2010

  The Alcoholic Divorce: A lawyer's survival guide. Part I,  Recognition  Video
  Instruction (1 hr) 2010

  Using Multi-variant Regression Analysis to Determine Sample Size, with Professor Samuel
  Frame, 
Journal of Divorce and
Remarriage, (in press).

  


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