Douglas County court reporter can still put pen to paper
By Jodi Heckel
Sunday June 21, 2009
Vanda Bidwell
Court reporter Nellie Gilpin sits in a courtroom last week at the Douglas County Courthouse in Tuscola. Gilpin, who has worked at the courthouse for more than 40 years, is one of a handful of court reporters in the state that still use shorthand.
TUSCOLA – Nellie Gilpin sits at the front of the courtroom and records the legal proceedings that take place in the Douglas County Courthouse in the same way she's done it for more than 40 years – with a pen and notebook.
Take a look at the notebook page and you see it's filled with graceful swoops and zigzags and lines, illegible to those unfamiliar with shorthand.
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