Meet Lydia

Lydia was born in Southern Pines, North Carolina and at the age of six Moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with her parents. Attended Pittsburgh Public Schools and graduated from Peabody High School. Studied piano and cello.  Participated in All-City Orchestra.  Lettered in swimming, volleyball, and basketball. Lydia has lived in Delaware for over twenty-five years!

Lydia later on attended Florida A&M University and graduated Magna cum Laude, majored in accounting. While at Florida A&M University she served as student government representative, class President, and became a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated, a role she still proudly represents to this day.

Lydia retuned to Pittsburgh and worked at Coopers & Lybrand (PricewaterhouseCoopers) and American Hardware Supply Co. (TruServe) as an accounting supervisor. Lydia started her career in public accounting with Coopers & Lybrand, a predecessor of PriceWaterhouseCoopers and becoming a Certified Public Accountant.

She attended the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania earning an MBA with a concentration in Finance. She spent ten years working on complex financial products at Mellon Bank, N.A., Westinghouse Credit Corporation and Duquesne Light Company. Before switching to the legal profession, she helped a start-up internet company raise over $1 million. After graduating from Temple University Beasley School of Law, she clerked for the Honorable Phillip Lewis Paley, J.S.C. in the Middlesex Vicinage of New Jersey. At the conclusion of her clerkship, she completed an LL.M. in Taxation.