Colorado Court Reporter Patricia Graves is Elected as a Director of the National Court Reporters Association

VIENNA, Va., Aug. 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Patricia K. Graves has been elected to the office of Director of the National Court Reporters Association (NCRA), a 20,000-member association representing court reporters and providers of captioning and realtime transcription services for the legal, broadcasting, business, government, and educational communities throughout the United States (www.ncraonline.org). Ms. Graves is president of Caption First, Inc. in Monument, Colo., where she likewise works as lead realtime captioner.

Ms. Graves previously has served on the Boards of the Colorado Court Reporters Association, the Speech to Text Network, NCRA's Realtime Certification Committee, and on NCRA's CART Community of Interest Committee.

A frequent speaker on CART (Communications Access Realtime Translation), Ms. Graves is renowned as an expert in the field and as an advocate for providing stenographic realtime services to those with hearing and visual impairments, bringing international attention to related issues through articles through the International Telecommunication Union's publication, Telecom World, and through interviews in various other industry publications. In 2009, she won the Robert H. Weitbrecht Telecommunications Access Award for her outstanding contribution to improving the accessibility of telecommunications, media and information technology for people in the United States who are deaf, hard-of-hearing, late-deafened, or deaf-blind.

Ms. Graves is a periodic contributor to publications such as Colorado's Ramblings and the JCR. Prior to moving to Colorado and becoming a realtime captioner, she worked as a freelance stenographic court reporter in New York, South Carolina, and Illinois. She holds the Registered Diplomate Reporter (RDR), Certified Realtime Reporter (CRR), and Certified CART Provider (CCP) credentials.

SOURCE National Court Reporters Association