Speakers

Gerie Bunch has been a reporter since 1985 primarily in the official arena with some experience in the freelance world as well. Her first year of reporting, she worked with a depo firm in Sacramento; then a year later, landed an officialship in Yolo County. In 1989 she transferred to Plumas County as an official and has been there ever since. She and her husband Tom live in the gorgeous High Sierras where they raised their two daughters who have careers of their own.
Gerie has served CCRA as a Board member, Officer and Committee Chair since 2000. She helped create the Support Our Students Committee and still chairs that committee to date. She’s also works with the Convention Committee to create the Student Track for CCRA’s Annual Conventions.

Sandy Bunch VanderPol brings to you more than 35 years of experience. During this period of time, she has earned a reputation of providing stellar service in all aspects of deposition reporting. Prior to providing services as a freelance reporter, Sandy was a firm owner and a working reporter for Phillips & Associates and Bunch & Associates, specializing in training reporters on technology and marketing those technologies to litigators. Her areas of expertise include: Realtime reporting and troubleshooting any issues that may arise; Immediate delivery of rough draft transcripts; Webstreaming the realtime deposition over the Internet; Reporting of complex litigation, including the handling of thousands of exhibits; Scanning and linking exhibits to transcripts in SBF, LEF, PDF and other formats.
Sandy has been licensed as a Certified Shorthand Reporter since 1975. Through the National Court Reporters Association, she has also received the Certified Merit Reporter designation, passing speed tests up to 260 words per minute, and the Certified Realtime Reporter designation, certifying 97.5% accuracy in realtime reporting. Sandy has been recently been recognized as a Fellow of Academy of Professional Reporters. She was instrumental in developing the NCRA certificate program called the “Realtime Systems Administrator” and is credentialed in such.
Sandy is a past president of the California Court Reporters Association and is an active member in the National Court Reporters Association. Sandy has presented seminars relating to technology in the court reporting profession, at both the NCRA and CCRA conventions. Sandy was instrumental in developing the NCRA Realtime Systems Administrator program. She is a member of the Northern California Court Reporters Association and STAR, the Society of Technical Advancement of Reporting. Sandy is currently serving on the NCRA Technology Evaluation Committee as well as the Realtime Systems Administrator Committee.

Christy Cannariato passed the CSR in 1988. Since then Christy's career has been divided almost equally between official and freelance, working in Los Angeles Superior Court for 13 years and now freelancing in Southern California, reporting complex litigation matters, primarily in intellectual property and bankruptcy. Christy earned a BA in Liberal Arts from Mount St. Mary's College in 1996, an MA in English from Cal State Long Beach in 1999, and a PhD in English from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2007. In addition to mentoring court reporting students and new CSRs, Christy works part-time as an adjunct professor at Mount St. Mary's College where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in literature and cultural history.

Carolyn Dasher is a certified Kundalini Yoga Instructor. She was certified in 2006 and has been teaching yoga in a beautiful park in Arcadia, California. She utilizes daily yoga and stretching exercises to stay in good health and continue her 25-plus career as an Official reporter in Los Angeles Superior Court.

Mark Kislingbury has not only set the Guinness World Record for “fastest court reporter” with a staggering 360wpm recorded, but he has also won seven National Court Reporters Association (NCRA) Speed Contests and four NCRA Realtime Contests in the last eleven years. He trains professionals and students alike on his popular website, www.magnumsteno.com.
Mark achieves such amazing speeds by using fewer strokes than other court reporters, and developing the ability to type at much faster speeds than other court reporters. By combining these two skills, he has achieved his one-of-a-kind results as the world's fastest court reporter.
Mark has now founded The Mark Kislingbury Academy Of Court Reporting in Houston, Texas, to share his short-writing methods and speed-building techniques with court reporting students who want the absolute best training available anywhere.

Early Langley, CSR, RPR, RMR, serves as immediate past president of CCRA. She is a senior staff court reporter at Aiken Welch Court Reporters located in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a member of NCRA and a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of California Berkeley. She has published articles in legal journals in California and testified before a Senate subcommittee, both relating to the court reporting profession. Early currently lives in the Bay Area with her husband. She is an avid runner and photographer.

Connie Parchman was licensed in 1983 working in the freelance field for a year and a half. When an officialship opened in Alameda County in 1985, she was hired on and spent the next 26 years working in court. In October 2011, she was laid off and started a small firm with her partner, Rose Miller. Connie has served the profession in many different ways, including past president of CCRA, a past recipient of the Distinguished Service Award, and the current editor of CCRA Online.

Margie Wakeman Wells is a lifetime credentialed teacher in the state of California and is certified as a CRI. She has taught 49 years, 37 of those in court reporting. As a reporting instructor, she has taught from the theory level through the exit speeds as well as all manner of English courses. She has presented, under the auspices of NCRA and state court reporting organizations, over 300 seminars for reporters on English-related topics as well as seminars for teachers and students over the past 30 years. Court Reporting: Bad Grammar/Good Punctuation, her best-selling reference text, and the workbook that accompanies it are published by Margie Holds Court Publishing and are available at margieholdscourt.com. Margie’s latest book, Word Pares, Pears, Pairs, has recently been published. Margie writes articles for the JCR and several state newsletters and is the author of a popular blog (margieholdscourt.com) on “all things English.” Margie is currently the Online Education Consultant for College of Court Reporting in Hobart, Indiana. She has two grown sons and lives with her husband, Bill, in Culver City, California.