She is a licensed Workers’ Compensation Specialist who has been practicing law for over twenty-five years. Ms. Gude was born in Cleveland, Ohio. After an upbringing in which she was exposed to much of the United States, Ms. Gude earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science at California State University, Chico. She relocated to the Bay Area for law school, where she earned her J.D. at the John F. Kennedy School of Law.