Education: A.M.I.* 3-6+ Certificate from the Montessori Training Center of St. Louis, Missouri, 1975; Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville; Master of Science in Special Education with Certification in Learning Disabilities and Early Childhood Approval from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville; three years Home Economics Major at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa; Illinois Certification in Elementary and Special Education.

Experience: Primary Directress at The Children's House-St. Clair since 1984; Directress at the Edwardsville Montessori School since 1975; two years as a Classroom Aide at The Children's House-Edwardsville; First Grade Student Teacher at N.O. Nelson School in Edwardsville, Illinois.

Education: A.M.I.* 3-6 training from the Montessori Training Center of St Louis, Missouri, 2008-2009. Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of South Carolina; Diploma of Nursing from Bishop Clarkson Hospital, Omaha, Nebraska; Three years of general sciences Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. Flight Nurse School, Squadron Officers School, and Air Command and Staff. Certified Basic Life Support and Pediatric Advanced Life Support 2009.

Experience: Primary teaching assistant at Campbell Montessori School, St Charles, Missouri, 2008. Pediatric Staff Nurse, Memorial Hospital, Belleville, IL 1987-present; Home Health Care Staff Nurse, Belleville Memorial Hospital, Belleville, IL 2007-2009. Nurse, United States Air Force Reserves. Duties included Flight Nurse (FN); Flight Clinical Coordinator (FCC); USTRANSCOM Joint Patient Movement Team Trainer; Nurse in Charge Scott AFB Air Staging Facility. Nurse, United States Air Force (active duty) Scott AFB, IL: Positions included: FN, FCC; Quality Assurance Coordinator, Day Supervisor, Evening Supervisor; assisted in Same Day Surgery; responsible for setting up the Outpatient Holding Facility during Desert Storm, Assistant Charge Nurse oncology and medical surgical units. Shaw AFB, SC: Duties included staff nursing on a pediatrics/medical surgical unit, and in the special care unit.

Experience: Business Administrator at the Montessori School - St. Clair since June 2006; Office Manager, Insurance Administrator, and Doctor's Assistant for Dr. Mitchell Needleman, D.P.M. in Swansea, IL, 1990-2006; Executive Secretary to the Director of the St. Louis Chapter of the Disabled American Veterans, 1980-88.