Gina received her Masters of Science in Nursing in 1995 from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. She got her midwifery diploma in 1990 from a German school of midwifery. She is fluent in German and Spanish. She has lived in Northern Virginia for the last eight years and always worked in an ob/gyn office. In 2000 she and her husband, Kurt, adopted a brother and sister from Fairfax County. Gina’s hobbies are writing detective stories, gardening, and cheering for the Redskins.