Kathleen Tailer

Kathleen Tailer is an attorney who graduated from Florida State University College of Law in 1993 after earning her B.A. in foreign languages from the University of New Mexico. She also served in the New Mexico Army National Guard while working on her undergraduate degree. She started her legal career in the Florida legislature, and then stayed home for a few years to focus on her family. She re-entered the legal world as a trial attorney for the Department of Children and Families, and was later promoted to the DCF General Counsel’s Office. She currently works for the Office of the State Courts Administrator at the Florida Supreme Court in the Office of Court Improvement. There, she focuses on dependency (child abuse and foster care issues) and domestic violence programs and judicial training.

Kathleen is passionate about adoption and finding Christian homes for orphaned children. She and her husband were medical foster parents, and have adopted 5 special needs children in addition to their three biological children. In her spare time (ha!) she enjoys photography and writing Christian suspense. So far, four of her novels have been published – Under the Marshal’s Protection, Children in the Wind, The Reluctant Witness, and her latest, Perilous Refuge.