Michele has over 30 years of experience as an attorney in the Washington metropolitan area. She works very closely with her clients, and is known for her personal service.

Michele works primarily in the areas of adoption, parenting, assisted reproductive technology, estate planning, mediation, and probate matters. Her practice is particularly focused on developing legal protections for families, including families headed by same-sex couples. She has successfully represented clients in more than 600 adoptions in Maryland and the District of Columbia, and has worked with thousands of clients in her career. Michele was elected to the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys in the spring of 2005 and to the American Academy of Assisted Reproductive Technology Attorneys in 2010. She was named an "Angel in Adoption" by Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton in 2009. Michele also provides clients with appropriate referrals for any legal matter.

She is an active member of the Bars of the District of Columbia and Maryland, and received her J.D. from the Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. in 1979, and her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1974.

Michele served on the first Board of Directors for the Mautner Project, The National Lesbian Health Organization, and served on the Board of Directors for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force for three years. She was one of the founders in 1982 of the first "Maybe Baby" group for lesbians in the Washington metropolitan area. Currently, she sits on the Board of Rainbow Families D.C. and will serve as a co-chair of the Mautner Project Gala in 2011. She was appointed to the D.C. Commission on Child Support Guidelines by the D.C. City Council in the Spring of 2010.

Michele was one of the first co-chairs of the Gay and Lesbian Subcommittee of the D.C. Bar, the precursor to GAYLAW. She served on the District of Columbia Federal Judicial Nominating Commission for more than 8 years by appointment of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton. Michele served on the Adoption Rules Committee for the Superior Court of the District of Columbia and worked with EqualityMaryland on a review of the Maryland Constitution and Code for discrimination against same-sex couples. She volunteered regularly with the Lesbian Services Program at the Whitman-Walker Clinic. Michele's work on behalf of LGBT families in the Washington metropolitan area was recognized in 2005 when she received the  District of Columbia Capitol Pride Director's Award for Family.

For many years Michele taught as an adjunct professor for the Women's Studies Program at the George Washington University and the Washington College of Law at American University. The American University named her Outstanding Adjunct Professor in 1999. She is the author of many articles on AIDS and HIV and sexual orientation and the law. She has won numerous awards for community service from LGBT organizations in the Washington area, including the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club Jerome Heilman Award, the Community Service Award from the Whitman-Walker Lesbian Services Program, and the Woman's Monthly Community Service Award.

Michele lives in Washington, D.C. with her partner of many years, and their rescue collie. She has a 25 year-old daughter who is training to be a chef.