Delores Dochterman Benson has thirty-seven years of experience as an executive secretary. Starting as a court reporter after graduating from the Court Reporting School of California at Los Angeles, she went on to become a preliminary design and board of directors secretary at Lockheed Aircraft Corporation; a writers' secretary at Selznick Studios; a legal secretary for J.C. Penny; a TV producer's secretary for Republic Studios; a production secretary and script supervisor for O'Connor Productions, before ultimately becoming the personal and private secretary to Donald O'Connor; a marketing administrator and personnel director for Wavetek Inc.; and an administrative assistant to the board of directors for the Sonoma County Medical Association, serving eight boards of directors, fifteen standing committees. The Art of Taking Minutes was originally published in 1981