Alice Rhodes is a Certified Financial Planner™ licensee and Registered Investment Advisor in Washington state*. Alice has run a successful financial planning practice for the past 13 years as of 2009. Alice opened her fee-only financial planning practice in 1996, following 17 years in the employee benefits field, where she served as an HMO operations manager, and later, as a benefits manager for a school district in the Puget Sound area. Her prior experience included intensive training in insurance contracts, health and disability insurance, pension benefits, and counseling individuals through life-changing events concerning disability and retirement.