Background
Peterson was born in Portland, Oregon, to Portland attorney Edwin and Anna Peterson. Her father was appointed to the Oregon Supreme Court in 1979, and served as its 39th Chief Justice from 1983 to 1991.
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Career
In the fall of 2003, while still in demand as a performer, but finding that performing was no longer the source of fulfillment it had been for her, she returned to school for two years to earn her Master"s in geriatric social work. She lives in New York City, and works as a geriatric social worker at the Lillian Booth Home, a facility for retired and incapacitated former theater workers in Englewood, New Jersey, run by The Actor"s Fund. In July 2007, she was profiled in a New York Times article on continuing education and mid-life career changes.
