She is the president CEO of Alvarene N. Owens Co, L.P.A. located at 11 01 Salem Ave. She was the first woman and first African American (or minority of any kind) to be appointed to the board of the most prestigious Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers. She still maintains membership on that board representing the Second District of Ohio. She is on the board of the Miami Valley Trial Lawyers of which she is also the first African American board member. She has been on the Board of the Ohio State Women’s Bar Association. She immediate past chairperson of the Dayton Bar Association’s Sole Practitioners Committee. She, along with Federal Bankruptcy Judge Thomas Waldron, has been a co-chair of the Dayton Bar Associations Diversity Committee.