
- Licensed and practicing trial lawyer in New Mexico for 20 years
- Litigated and mediated hundreds of claims for people against insurance companies and healthcare corporations, involving complex medical and legal issues
- Investigated hundreds of potential claims against health care corporations and other types of corporations and insurance companies
- Obtained multiple multi-million dollar settlements for clients in wrongful death, medical malpractice, brain injury, and catastrophic personal injury claims in New Mexico
- Tried approximately 10 jury trials and assisted with others
- Avid researcher and writer
- Experienced in all aspects of civil litigation First female partner at prior law firm (employed there for 12 years before founding Bencoe Law Firm in 2004)
- New Mexico Trial Association
- Member, 1991 - present
- Board of Directors 2002 - present
- Secretary/Treasurer, 2007-2008
- American Association for Justice
- Member, 1995 - present
- Litigation and medical malpractice section member
- New Mexico Medical Review Commission volunteer, 2004 - present
- National Association of Professional Executive Women, 2010
- New Mexico State Courts
- U.S. District Court, District of New Mexico
- University of New Mexico Law School
- Juris Doctor in 1993
- Article Editor, New Mexico Law Review
- Teaching Assistant, Legal Research and Writing Program
- University of Arizona, Tucson Arizona
- Graduated 1990 with Honors and magna cum laude
- Major in communications
- Minor in music performance (attended on full music scholarship - oboe)
- Phi Beta Kappa honor society
- Rhodes Scholar semifinalist
- Mortar Board Honor Society
- Student House Manager, Centennial Hall
- Albuquerque, New Mexico native
- Spending time with family and dogs
- Gardening, cooking
- Movies, music and Reading