Beyond running her CPA firm, Linda has a variety of interests and activities, especially those related to small business and advocacy. She serves as a board member of a non-partisan PAC and is also on the policy board of the Small Business Advocacy Council. These activities give her access to members of Congress across the nation as well as in Illinois.
Linda is a past U.S. Small Business Administration Accounting Advocate Award Winner and a past Vice President and Board Member of the Illinois CPA Society. The Illinois CPA Society has given Linda its Media Expert award for multiple years and has featured her in print, on radio and TV to discuss tax issues affecting businesses and individuals. She has also taught classes on tax and employee benefits issues to CPAs and health care issues to medical professionals. She served as an executive board member of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) Chicago Chapter. Linda has won the first NAWBO National Advocacy Award for her public policy efforts on behalf of small business and health care issues.
Linda has spent more than 35 years lobbying for the rights of small business and health care issues, both locally, in Springfield and in Washington. She received NAWBO’s Inaugural Hall of Fame Award and National Advocacy Award. She is currently on the board of a nonpartisan PAC, a member of the NAWBO Chicago Advocacy Committee, and sits on the Policy Committee of the Small Business Advocacy Council.
As an expert witness and consultant to attorneys, Linda brings public accounting audit and litigation support experience to assist people in the process of divorce. Linda was a long-serving Board member of The Lilac Tree Center for Divorce Resources, a non-profit organization providing resources to those in the process of divorce, and is a current Advisory Board member.
