Age: >55

Occupation: >RN, parish nurse coordinator for Monroe Clinic since January 2002; parish nurse, St. Victor Catholic Parish of Monroe (currently on leave of absence)

Education: >Milwaukee County General Hospital School of Nursing (Graduated 1975 - Diploma in Nursing), Viterbo University - RN to BSN Completion Program (Graduated December 2001 - Bachelor of Science in Nursing), Edgewood College (Master of Nursing with Focus on Health Ministry, May 2006).

Family: >Husband David, married 31 years; son Matthew, in the doctorate program at UW-Milwaukee in political science; daughter-in-law Adrienne; daughter Ana, freshman at UW-Madison

Committees as Parish Nurse Coordinator: >Latino Needs Advisory Committee; Green County Dementia Care Network Advisory Board; Healthy Communities Committee; Co-Chair of Cover the Uninsured Community Committee

Volunteer positions held: >Member of the American Nurses Association, Wisconsin Nurses Association, Wisconsin Parish Nurse Coalition and Madison District Nurses Association; Professional Development Chair - Wisconsin Parish Nurse Coalition Steering Committee (Term completed October 2007); Madison District Nurses Association - board of directors, president-elect, committee member at large; Honor Society of Nursing - Sigma Theta Tau International - Beta Eta- at- Large, Madison; current member of Monroe Clinic Homecare Advisory Committee; Monroe Clinic - Volunteers in Partnership (past president, past public policy chair, current historian); current member and past president of the Monroe Woman's Club; current member of Monroe Kiwanis; St. Victor Catholic Parish (member of Health Ministry and Peace and Justice committees; former chair of Home and School; mobile food pantry with St. Vincent de Paul, Second Harvest and Catholic Charities); former Girl Scouts leader.