Linda B. Schakel served as an attorney adviser in the Office of Tax Policy of the U.S. Treasury (May 1995 to August 1997) after practicing with Ballard Spahr for nine years. At the Treasury Department, she had primary responsibility for tax legislative and regulatory projects in the areas of tax-exempt bonds, Low Income Housing Tax Credits, empowerment zones and enterprise communities, work-opportunity tax credits, and welfare-to-work tax credits. Ms. Schakel returned to Ballard Spahr after her work with the Treasury Department. Before law school, she taught gifted elementary-school students and teachers of gifted students at the University of South Florida and several universities in the Washington, D.C., area.