Prior to her retirement in 2013, she was the President of Kimball, Paris & Gugliotti, P.C. (KPG) in Middlebury, CT, USA. Her specialties were auditing and quality control. Before joining KPG in 1992, she worked for three local firms and for Deloitte. Ms. Paris holds a B.S. degree in Accounting (Summa Cum Laude) from Post College in Middlebury, CT, USA, where she was elected to Alpha Chi, and a B.A. degree in English (Summa Cum Laude) from the University of Connecticut, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi.