About the Author

Linda Marie Mako Kendrick is a graduate of John Marshall High School in Cleveland. She has pursued her education at Ohio University (AA, Journalism) at Athens, Ohio; Mountain Empire Community College at Wise, Virginia; Florida State University (BS, Business) at Tallahassee, Florida; and, Case Western Reserve University, School of Law (JD, Law) at Cleveland, Ohio. She has worked in the coal-mining industry (Virginia/Appalachia), the entertainment industry (Hollywood), and the mortgage business (Hawaii), but the bulk of her professional career has been spent as a Federal Contracting Officer at NASA, in her home town of Cleveland, Ohio. She is an avid fan of the Florida State Seminoles NCAA Football Team, but she lives and dies with the fortunes of the Cleveland Indians, Cleveland Cavaliers, and of course (being a native-born Clevelander) The Browns.