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5 March 2019 • NVRA eVoice

SLATE OF NOMINEES

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ONE-YEAR DIRECTOR –
Valerie McFarland, CCR (Ga.), CVR (South Carolina)

Valerie McFarland, CCR (Ga.), CVR was born in London, England into a military family.
After moving to Germany and then back to the states they resided in Northern California.
Val went to school at Santa Rosa Junior College and California State University, Long Beach.
She was active in the Lions Club in San Rafael, California with her dad and was the first Lady
Lion. She also served on the Board of Directors for the Bay Area Chapter of the Arthritis
Foundation. She moved to Virginia in 1989 and worked for the Department of Energy in
Washington D.C. before transferring to South Carolina. Val was one of several women in the
Aiken area to establish the Aiken Midday Lions Club where she served as the first president
of the club. Val was also the first Lady Lion in Aiken, South Carolina. After owning her own business for several years she
learned that there was a shortage for court reporters and decided to go to school and become a court reporter. She
attended court reporting school and upon completion started her freelance business in 2014. She immediately joined South
Carolina Court Reporters Association (SCCRA) and also NVRA. She freelanced for three years. In 2017, she went to work
for the Superior Court of Richmond County, Georgia. She served as the vice-president of the SCCRA from 2016 to 2017,
and currently holds the position of president (2017 until October 2019). She has been using Audioscribe and Dragon since
2015. In her free time, Val spends time camping with her husband, Dean, and their three fur babies and loves to crochet and
read. She makes her home in Graniteville, South Carolina, just 10 miles from Augusta, Georgia. She has lived in South
Carolina since 1990.

ONE-YEAR DIRECTOR –

Sarah Flynn, CCR, CVR-M, RVR, CLT (Arkansas)

Sarah Flynn, CCR, CVR-M, RVR, CLT has been a working certified court reporter using
the voice writing method since 1994 in the central Arkansas area. Sarah owned Flynn Legal
Services, a statewide court reporting firm, for 13 years, which she sold in 2016 in order to
concentrate solely on voice writer education. In 2005, Sarah began teaching the voice
writing method of court reporting in a brick and mortar school in Little Rock, and in 2010,
she created an online court reporting program which now is known as the International
Realtime Court Reporting Institute. Sarah now teaches students in 27 U.S. states and
abroad, including Canada, the British Virgin Islands, and the UK. In 2011, Sarah was
awarded the Value Award for Education by NVRA for the individual who works to establish standards for testing,
certification, and continuing education. Sarah’s goal is to spread the voice writing method to all U.S. states and the world to
further promote the voice writing method of court reporting and to produce trained, high-quality, realtime voice writers
using CAT software. In 2018, Sarah earned the Realtime Verbatim Reporter designation, and she encourages all of her
students to achieve the highest certifications possible.

Those who will continue on the board without election are:

PAST PRESIDENT – Don Scott, CVR-CM-M, RVR, RCP, RBC
PRESIDENT – Teresa Johnson, CVR-M-CM, RVR, RVR-M

TREASURER – Mike Ashcraft, CVR-M
TWO-YEAR DIRECTOR – Rebecca Young, RCP, RCP-M, RPR, CCR, CSR

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