WHERE I COME FROM
Background
My roots in our community run deep. I was born in West Valley City at Pioneer Valley Hospital. I attended Monroe Elementary in West Valley City, John C. Fremont Elementary in Taylorsville, and Eisenhower Jr. High. I Graduated from Taylorsville High School. I played on the Eisenhower Golf Team and the Taylorsville Tennis Team.
While working full-time and raising a family, I attended college at SLCC and the University of Phoenix, graduating in 2003 with a Bachelor's Degree in Business Management.
I built my first home in Taylorsville in 1992, moved to West Jordan in 1995 to help with my deceased sister's children for a few years, and finally moved back home to Taylorsville in June of 2000. I brought my family back because I wanted my children to grow up in the same neighborhoods, attend the same great schools, and learn to love the same good people that have made the Taylorsville/West Valley City area home for me for over 30 years.
Growing up, I worked at Meadow Brook Golf Course. My adult career has been in early childhood education. I started working in a small family-owned child care center in every capacity, from a classroom teacher to a before and after school program coordinator, to the center director. I took over the business and eventually grew that small center for 30 children in Taylorsville into ABC Great Beginnings, Inc., Utah's largest, locally owned, child care and preschool company.
My community service includes:
- Utah State House of Representatives
- House Transportation Committee
- House Education Committee
- Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee
- Several statewide committees on early childhood care, health, and education
- City Economic Development Committee
- ChamberWest Government Action Committee
- President of both the Utah and National Child Care Associations
- 4-H leader
- Over a decade of service with the Boy Scouts of America
- United States Navy
- State and County Delegate for the Republican Party
- District 34 Legislative Chairperson for the Republican Party
