Kerry is a board certified Nurse Midwife and women’s health Nurse Practitioner and is the manager of the midwifery program at Oroville Hospital. She graduated from California State University, Chico in 1986, and went to work as an RN at Oroville Hospital that same year. She transitioned to labor and delivery care in 1987 and taught childbirth preparation classes through Butte College for six years before returning to school to pursue midwifery in 2000. Kerry attended Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing, and earned her Certificate in Midwifery and Women’s Health Care in 2004. She has worked as a CNM and NP since then, in many of the area hospitals, which she feels has given her a unique perspective into what constitutes excellence in midwifery services. She began working to develop a full-scope midwifery service at Oroville Hospital in the spring of 2016.