Gloria Weller Oral History Interview

Oral history interview by Mary Heers with Gloria Weller. Topics include: The death of her father when she was a baby; Living with Grandparents in Utah as a young child; growing up in Nevada; Working as a secretary in high school for the school principal and the district attorney Getting her first Law office job while visiting her grandparents in Ogden at the age of seventeen-years; Interest in going to college and becoming a teacher; Marriage and children; Moving to California for her husband's employment; Her employment history in California; Legal transcription during the night while raising her boys; Working for a Law office in Los Angeles for forty-three years, including fourteen years working from home in Layton, Utah. Her mother's career as a first-grade teacher; Learning on the job and never attending college; Her time working for a government defense contractor, and taking responsibility for whatever you are responsible for and learning all you can.

Ms. Gloria Weller began working as a secretary for a law firm at just 17 years old and has since made a lifetime career of it. She learned typing and shorthand in high school, and was able to be a secretary for her school principal in high school as her very first job. During that time, she was able to do some work for the Elko County district attorney, giving her a little bit of legal secretary experience, leading to her job with a law firm at 17. She has had various jobs over the years, but her longest one is the one she currently is working. After working in LA for several years she now runs the same LA law office out of her home in Ogden, Utah (for the last 14 years).