Possesses over 30 years of experience in a successful real estate career – broker for own office; president of Ada County Board of Realtors (1986); family-owned Treasure Valley home-building business; previous co-owner of several small businesses involving imports, manufacturing, and wholesale with experience in retail sales, bookkeeping, and accounting; member of Fellowship Baptist Church (Nampa, Idaho); enjoys gardening, knitting, walking in the outdoors, fishing, hunting, and sight-seeing; spouse: Dieter (former member of the Idaho House of Representatives); three grown children: Clifford, Deborah, and Birch Robert.