Judge or Presenter Biographies
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Keith Boeke started competing in obedience in 1974 with a Sheltie who became one of the first dogs titled as an OTCh in AKC. Keith has trained 3 Shelties since then earning UDs and CDXs in AKC, as well as Canadian CDs, CDXs, UDs and a Canadian OTCh. Keith also has titled in UKC obedience, earning U-CDs, U-CDXs, a U-UD and a U-OCH. Keith is a member of Forest City Dog Training Club (AKC) and Rock Valley Kennel Federation (UKC). He was recently made a lifetime member of Forest City DTC where he is also an instructor of all levels of obedience and rally. Keith is a licensed to judge ASCA (Australian Shepherd Club of America), 4-H and UKC obedience trials, and AKC Rally. He became a UKC Rep. last year and will be working with UKC on starting a Rally program.
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Sandra Boeke began her obedience competition showing in 1971 with a Sheltie, Gine. She finished her CD title at the age of 9 months with one HIT. She currently has earned 6 AKC CDs, 4 CDXs, 4 UDs, 4 UKC CDs, 3 UKC CDXs, 2 UKC UDs, 1 UKC OCH, 1 U-AGCH, 4 CAN CDs, 2 CAN CDXs, 2 CAN UDs, 2 CAN OTCh, 2 Dog World Awards and 1 Canadian Dog World Award. All titles were earned with Shelties with many placings, HITs and a 200 score in UKC Open. Also, Sandra has been listed in the Top 25 Obedience for Shelties. Sandra began judging in 1972 with ASCA and 4-H. She began judging UKC obedience in 1993 while still judging ASCA and 4-H in Illinois and Wisconsin. Sandra is a lifetime member of Forest City DTC (AKC) where she is an instructor. Sandra also belongs to Rock Valley Kennel Federation (UKC). Sandra is looking forward to judging for the UDC.
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Nancy Christensen has been hooked on the Doberman since 1974, beginning with Clyde A Scope UD and Silent Sentry’s Renaissance, CD, WAC. In her first foray into breeding, she produced DPCA Top 20 winner, CH Renejade The Jazz Singer CD ROM; who produced Nancy’s foundation bitch, CH Alpha Omega's Tushima UD ROM. Nancy also bred Am/Can CH Renejade All American Jazz CDX ROM AG1; CH Renejade Go For The Gold CDX ROM; OTCH Renejade American Mystic UDX; Renejade Swing On A Star CDX WAC; and UDC CH Renejade Windsor v Jazlin CDX WAC ScH3 ZTP CGC VCX (Robin will be 15 in March!). Other breedings have produced get titled in tracking, fly ball, agility, obedience, dancing, Schutzhund and SAR certifications. Nancy is the UDC Director of Judges, a UDC Conformation/Breed Survey Judge, an AKC Doberman conformation judge and serves on the DPCA Board of Directors.
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Shirley Hammond has greater than 25 years of Search and Rescue (SAR) experiences and has certified three of her own dogs in area search, cadaver, disaster, evidence and water. She has mentored many teams through the SAR certification process as an instructor and evaluator for the California Rescue Dog Association, Santa Clara Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Canine Specialized Support Team, the State of California Office of Emergency Services (OES) Cadaver Certification. Shirley is a member of and instructor for the CA OES/FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Response System and a member of the California OES Canine Search Specialist Working Group. She is a life member of NASAR and co-founded the UDC SARDOBE working group. Her email address is shirham@sbcglobal.net.
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Butch Henderson has over 30 years experience training, breeding, and competing with his working dogs. He and his Doberman, Agir, won both the 2004 AWDF and 2005 DVG national championships and received high protection honors at the 2005 IDC World Championship. He has nationally titled multiple breeds in Schutzhund, including Bouviers, Dobermans, German Shepherds, and Rottweilers. He has completely titled several high-caliber competition schutzhund dogs from basic to Schutzhund III and has helped literally hundreds of clients reach their schutzhund and basic dog training goals. Agir is the first and only Doberman to be a DVG national champion and in 1996, Butch's dog Brinks became the first and only Bouvier to capture the same honor. .Butch has been the training director of the Commonwealth Working Dog Club for 14 years. He was the 2001 Captain of the U.S. Rottweiler team in Italy, and was a bomb dog handler in NYC and Baltimore. Butch represented the U.S. 4 times in Germany at the Deutsche Meisterschaft, once at the IDC World Dobermann Championship, and was selected to be on the USA team at the 2004 FCI World Championship.
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Roar Kjønstad is currently the manager of Scandinavia's largest dog school, Oslo Hundeskole (www.oslo-hundeskole.no). He has been active in dog sports since 1983, mainly with Dobermanns. He has trained and trialed Dobermanns in IPO/SchH, SAR and Obedience, titling 5 Dobermanns from SchH I to SchH III in 6 years. He is the training director of Stubberudmyra Brukshund Klub since 1996, he’s been a trial helper since 1999, doing helper work at several large trials. The National Training Director for helpers since 2001, he’s responsible for educating, training and approval of trial helpers. He’s been the team captain of several FCI, WUSV and Nordic Championships, and a former member of Kennel Club Working Dog Committee and the Dobermann Club board. Roar has been an FCI judge since 2003 and judged several National trials. He’s been a mental test judge since 2004. Roar has been influenced mainly by Belgian and German philosophy. Trains and attends frequently in the most successful clubs in Europe and gives seminars regularly both national and international.
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Bunny Lanning titled her first Doberman when she was 15 years old. This was the beginning of a life long love affair with the Doberman breed. Since then she has trained Dobermans to Utility, Excellent Agility , Schutzhund , Tracking, Herding titles, and a Certified Police Dog, and has bred several Conformation Champions, with many working titles, under the Lothlorien prefix. A founding member of UDC, Bunny has had the honor of being the President of the United Doberman Club for almost three years, and a board member for many more. She has actively served as a Certified Evaluator for Therapy Dogs International for 17 years. She takes the UDC mission very seriously; working, testing and breeding for the dog that is the total Doberman, sound in mind and body. Bunny has judged the UDC Temperament Tests at the National on three other occasions.
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Butch MacDonald & Cecilia Ringstrom have been involved in dogs shows for nearly 40 years. They have been successful breeders of Doberman Pinschers under the Starstorm prefix, also Papillons and Toy Poodles. Both were all breed professional handlers for 23 years before starting their judging career. As handlers, they handled many top dogs in Canada and have attained many Best in Show wins on client’s dogs. Since starting their judging career, they have been fortunate to have judged not only all across Canada, but have judged our wonderful breed in the USA (including specialties Westminster weekend). They have also judged all breeds in Chile, Hong Kong, Australia twice, Beijing China, Thailand, Brazil, Argentina, Indonesia, South Africa, Sweden and consider themselves fortunate to have been able to have judged Dobermans in many countries of the world. Both reside in Canada.
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Dr. Nancy Morris DVM, Diplomat ACVIM received her BS in Medical Technology from the Oregon Institute of Technology, graduating Magna Cum Laude. She received her DVM degree in 1990 from Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine. During veterinary school, she served as a research technician in a project to validate echocardiography in dogs as a means to determine left ventricular volumes and ejection fraction using a modified Simpson’s approximation technique. After graduation, Dr. Morris spent 7 years in private practice and then a 2 year residency at Angell Memorial Animal Hospital in cardiopulmonary medicine. She is board certified by ACVIM in cardiology. Dr. Morris is currently active in cardiovascular research having completed a multi-center FDA/CVM clinical trial for Pimobendan (phopodiesterase III inhibitor drug) to treat congestive heart failure in dogs. She has served as a cardiology consultant to biotech, medical device manufacturers and pharmaceutical development companies. Dr. Morris has been very involved with Dobermans and has performed hundreds of echocardiograms and holter monitors across the U.S./Canada.
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John Soares is an experienced Doberman trainer and handler and UDC National Training Director. John handled a Doberman, Topper to a 4th place IDC World Championship placement in 2005. They also became the first Doberman team to ever qualify for the FCI for Italy. At the qualifying trial, John was HIT obedience, with a score of 96. As a professional dog trainer, John has had the unique opportunity to have lived in both the U.S.A. and Europe. His ability has brought him recognition in both continents. He has experience training and trialing different breeds; he has also experienced many styles of training.