She has worked in both the public and private sectors, serving early on in her career as a civil rights investigator in the Vermont Attorney General's Office, a judicial clerk in Vermont District Court and an instructor in legal writing at Vermont Law School. More recently she was Associate General Counsel to the Vermont Environmental Board and worked in private practice. She also does freelance writing and editing. Cathy has a longstanding personal and professional interest in hospice, end of life care and medical ethics. She has appeared on television and radio to discuss and raise public awareness concerning these issues and also sits on the Ethics Committee at Central Vermont Medical Center. In November 2008 she received a graduate certificate in Bioethics from the Medical College of Wisconsin.