GIGI serves as chair of the firm’s Public Law and Finance group.  She advises her clients in the area of public finance law, with particular emphasis on public/private partnerships and economic development activities. 

GiGi’s representative experience encompasses virtually all types of public finance for municipalities, counties, the State of Ohio and related agencies, including airport, water and sewer system revenue bonds, single and multifamily housing, healthcare financing, long-term care financing, industrial revenue bond financing and tax increment financing.

GiGi serves on the board of trustees for the Cleveland Zoological Society.  She is president and trustee of the Fund for the Future of Shaker Heights and volunteers as a member of the Learning and Earning For Life Investment Committee, Early Learning Cluster, for United Way.  She also has chaired the Bond Attorneys Workshop and received the YWCA’s Woman of Professional Excellence Award.  In 2005, GiGi received City Year Cleveland’s Community Champion award and was named a Rainmaker by Northern Ohio Live magazine.  She is an active member of the American, Ohio and Cleveland Bar Associations, as well as the National Association of Bond Lawyers, where she served as a member of the board of trustees.  GiGi is a member of the 2007 class of Leadership Cleveland and is a published author.  She most recently co-authored “Tax Act Expands Availability of Tax-Exempt Financing for Manufacturing Facilities” in Real Estate Finance magazine (Vol. 23, No. 2, August 2006). 

GiGi began her tenure with Calfee in 1976, becoming a partner in 1983.