Donna Linton:  

Life After attending Herkimer County Community College and getting my AAS degree majoring in court reporting, worked in NY/LI for five years. Married Thomas Linton, Labor Day, 1987. Moved to Tampa, Florida, 1989. Moved to Northern Virginia 1994. Had our daughter Natalie September 1996. Opened own agency 1997. Became president of the Virginia Court Reporters Association 2000. Active on newsletter committees, student mentor program, some legislative and pro bono. On Election Committee and Neighborhood Watch committee in homeowners association. We divorced recently. Natalie and I have two cats. Sam passed six years ago. Love being active and playing raquetball and traveling, dancing and movies in spare time...or make spare time, aside from the typical gardening, baking, cooking and reading I've always loved. School Biggest crush in junior/high school was my boyfriend, then husband, now ex, father of our child, Tom. I remember Brian Clifford being mad at me and I think he cursed me for my later 30s and 40s :) Miss Brown inspired me most. She may have taught me Gregg Shorthand, but she taught me so much about punctuation, that it's helped me in my machine shorthand career. Guidance counselor Mrs. Gibbs, too. And Home Economics. Loved all my teachers and most everyone loves my cooking and baking. Craziest school memories: so many. I loved all my friends and the things we did together, especially Christine, Susan, JoAnn, Michael, Kenny, Tom, Kim, Rachel, Morgan, and Teresa should have been with us. Darn that Catholic school! I remember being so nervous about cutting school for the first time and going to the beach. We lived on Long Island. How could we not? College College is such a blur. I was Bambi ou...Expand for more