Coeur d'Alene Staff

Personal Profile & Professional Background

As a young child I was interested in adoption. Little did I know that my husband, Ron, and I would have a family through adoption. Our first child, Jacob, was adopted from Romania in 1991. I spent six weeks in Romania working through the adoption process. We were hoping to adopt two children but due to the difficulty of the process felt blessed to bring Jacob home. Wanting to spend more time with Jacob, I left my career in 4-H/Youth Development work to be a stay-at-home mother. I worked part-time writing home studies for Americans for International Aid and Adoption and became excited about helping couples become families.

In 1993, we adopted two older sisters, Jeana, age 12, and Katy, age 9, through the Idaho Foster Care system. The girls had been in foster care for several years and had lived with seven different families. Through the years, there have been many difficult issues we have worked through together with God’s help. Our daughters, now 28 and 25 have families of their own and we have the joy of four grand-children.

My educational background is from the University of Idaho, where I have two degrees. My Bachelor’s Degree is in Education with a minor in Psychology, and my Master’s Degree is in Guidance and Counseling. I have worked for the past seven years as an adoption caseworker with over 70 adopting families and 15 birthparents. My interests include singing, my two Morgan horses, three dogs, and two cats, flower gardening, traveling, and spending time with my family. I am excited to be a part of A New Beginning!