Reigh Kessen Avery

Background

Avery, Reigh Kessen was born on September 16, 1949 in Cincinnati. Daughter of Henry Charles and Margaret Elizabeth (Dam) Kessen.

Education

Associate of Applied Science, El Centro College, Dallas, 1988.

Career

Legal secretary, Victor C. McCrea Junior & Company, Dallas, 1983-1984; legal assistant, Victor C. McCrea Junior & Company, Dallas, 1986-1990; legal secretary, Fanning, Harper & Martinson, Dallas, 1984-1986; legal secretary, Thompson & Knight, Dallas, 1986; legal assistant, Nacol, Wortham & Associations, Dallas, 1990-1991; senior legal assistant, Snelling and Snelling, Inc., Dallas, 1992-1993; free-lance legal assistant, Texas, 1993-1995; senior legal assistant, Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, since 1995.

Achievements

• Reigh Kessen Avery has been listed as a noteworthy Legal assistant by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Chair committee Fox Meadow Farms Homeowners Association, Loveland, Ohio, 1972-1974. Pro bono volunteer Child Support Clinic, Dallas, 1988, North Control Tex.Legal Superior vena cava syndrome Foundation, Inc., Dallas, since 1988. Volunteer Ramses The Great Exhibition Dallas Museum National History Association, 1989.

Member National Association Legal Assts., State Bar Texas (legal assistants division), Dallas Association Legal Assts. (litigation section, committee national affairs 1988-1989), Phi Theta Kappa, Phi Beta Lambda.

Interests

• Avocations: computers, Greek mythology, logic problems, crossword puzzles.

Connections

Married Gerald L. Poe, October 5, 1968 (divorced November 1989). Children: Amy Kathleen, Michael Lee. Married Melvin L. Avery, May 6, 1996.

Father:

Henry Charles Kessen

Mother:

Margaret Elizabeth (Dam) Kessen

Spouse:

Gerald L. Poe

Spouse:

Melvin L. Avery

child:

Michael Lee Avery

child:

Amy Kathleen Avery