Michele’s advice called “brilliant!” by Bill Handel, a Southern California well-known and respected radio talk show host and attorney at KFI 640 AM radio station in Burbank, California on December 10, 2012. KFI 640AM Program Director Robin Bertolucci had sent Michele an email with this message:

“I just mentioned your idea to Handel and he thought it was brilliant! We’re on it. Thank you for the excellent suggestion!”

Back in 2012 without social media, Michele single-handedly caused the removal of a judicial commissioner from one courthouse in Los Angeles County, California to another courthouse in a different city in the same county. (The bench officer had handled traffic, parking and small claim cases.)  Michele earned the respect from the former Los Angeles Presiding Judge and Assistant Presiding Judge who were, at the time, in charge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court operating 47 courthouses throughout the county—the largest single unified trial court in the United States.

In a different matter, in 2012, a presiding judge for the Yolo County Superior Court in Northern California, agreed with Michele’s written suggestions, for clarity and transparency, about the need for legible signatures by judicial officers, especially in all departments that handle traffic, parking and small claims cases.

The presiding judge wrote: “Your initial letter raised issues regarding the clarity of the Court’s order regarding the timing of payment and the clarity of the judicial officer’s signature on the decision. We agree that these items should have been written more legibly. Based on your letter, the Court has taken steps to ensure that is decisions are written with greater clarity for litigants.”

And finally, Michele’s suggestions to the presiding judge for the San Francisco Superior Court in 2016, resulted in his staff ordering new forms to require that names of bench officers be printed and readable for all court litigants in all departments, especially in those that handle traffic, parking and small claims cases.

As a former CBS News broadcast associate in New York, part of Robbyn McFadden’s job once included fielding calls – – a task, she says, she didn’t exactly love. However, one welcomed caller was Michele.  “Michele always had the most pleasant, encouraging, eloquent, fun, and smart things to say.” Upon Michele’s own initiation, and with permission, Michele eloquently wrote two separate emails to Ms. McFadden’s two senior producers highlighting the value of some of Robbyn’s work. Two months later, Ms. McFadden got a job promotion to junior associate producer.

In 2016, Mehmet Oz, MD left a message on Michele’s cell phone: “Thank you for your well-written and kind letter. Thank you for watching the show. Advice for Michele’s family: It’s how you do anything, is how you do everything. Always be reminded of that mantra. I’m congratulating her for raising those great kids.”