Flora wanted a career to be of service to her community. Her first goal was to be a college French teacher, but there was a year wait to enter the program for a teaching credential at CSUF. In the interim, she studied linguistics, the Theatre of the Absurd, and ultimately the Paralegal Program at SJCL to attain a skill to support her graduate education. After working as a paralegal for a year, her husband suggested she undertake something that would use her full potential to better serve. Law school followed while she continued to work as a paralegal/law clerk, then with Lang, Richert & Patch. Upon graduation, Flora began her career as a Research Attorney with the Fresno County Superior Court. After a brief child-raising hiatus, Flora did contract work. In 1998, she opened her own office, handling probate, estate planning, and conservatorship matters. As to law school, “I remember all the love – from friends and professors. It was all a big family.”