Sharon Donnell:  

After graduation I started a job as a secretary for the Convention Bureau at the Dayton Chamber of Commerce. I left the Chamber in the fall of 1974 to take a job with the Miami Valley Regional Planning Commission. In 1974 I met David Donnell a 1971 Northridge High School graduate and we married on August 7, 1976. We had four children - Katie born in 1978, Erin born in 1981, Ashley born in 1984 and Philip born in 1989. After having a family, the 70's, 80's and 90's flew by! David taught high school math at the beginning of our marriage but became a Dayton police officer in 1982. I worked for the Planning Commission until after Erin was born and then decided to be a stay at home Mom for awhile. In 1982 I started working part-time for Green & Green, Lawyers. In 1988 I worked at Freund, Freeze & Arnold and stayed with this law firm until I had Philip in December 1989. During the next few years, which I refer to as the "TNT" years which consisted of teenagers and a toddler, I took care of Philip's numerous health issues as well as my mother's health deteriorating. In 1993 I went back part time and worked for a sole practitioner until the fall of 1995 where I started work at Coolidge Wall one of ...Expand for more