She has limited her practice to bankruptcy law since 1986, representing consumer debtors in Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 cases. She has extensive experience obtained from handling an estimated 2,500 cases or more, primarily in the Western District of Oklahoma during the mid-1980s and the 1990s when the oil industry was in a severe slump. The oil industry slump took down with it the economy of Oklahoma because of the many independent oil producers located there. During these years, the Western District of Oklahoma Bankruptcy Court averaged between 9,000 and 12,000 cases filed each year.