TERESA’S practice focuses on public-private partnerships that include economic development and tax incentives, public finance, complex public-private real estate transactions, government relations and public sector law.
She is experienced in negotiations of land acquisitions and dispositions and financing of the same, and economic development incentives, including new markets tax credits, tax incremental financing, joint economic development zones and joint economic development districts, bond transactions, project labor agreements and diversity plans. She has represented private entities and local and county governmental agencies, including municipalities, school boards, port authorities and library systems on law and real estate matters.
Her experience also includes serving as Director of Law for the City of Cleveland under Mayor Jane Campbell’s administration from 2003 to 2004.
Teresa also has been recognized by a number of regional organizations. She was named a YWCA Woman of Professional Excellence in 2011, earned the CREW Cleveland Deborah R. Klausner Leadership Award in 2008, and is a graduate of the 2007 Class of Leadership Cleveland. In addition, she was in the 2006 class of the YWCA Women’s Leadership Boot Camp and Kaleidoscope Magazine’s 40-40 Club and was a member of the 2004 Class of Cleveland Bridge Builders.
Active in the community, Teresa served as a member of Cleveland Mayor Frank G. Jackson’s three-person Special Commission on Missing Persons and Sex Crime Investigations, which developed 26 recommendations that were accepted by the Mayor in 2011.
She is a member of the board of trustees for: Laurel School for Girls; Cleveland Botanical Garden; and the Village Capital Corporation. Teresa also chairs the Cleveland Foundation’s African American Philanthropy Committee. She was a participant in the 2011 Universal Sisters: Live Younger Longer program. Teresa also is active in The Links (Western Reserve Chapter), Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. (Greater Cleveland Alumnae Chapter) and Jack and Jill of American Foundation (Cleveland Chapter).
Teresa joined Calfee in 2011.