B.A. Weber State University, M.A. University of Utah, Ed.S. University of Idaho; 20-year Air Force veteran; achieved rank of Lt. Col. while serving as a B-1B and B-52 aviator; bomber nuclear alert duty during Cold War; post-9/11 combat deployment to Afghanistan; currently teaching civics and government at Mountain Home High School; served with the U.S. Department of State – Teachers for Global Classrooms program, working with educators in the 2012 Ukraine cohort; additional educational teacher exchanges in Jordan, South Korea, and Germany; selected by Veterans of Foreign Wars as the 2019-2020 VFW Idaho and National High School Civics Teacher of the Year; past member of Mountain Home City Council; spouse: Colette; three children; four grandchildren.