Educational Background
Cathedral High School, St Cloud MN 1974
BA University of Minnesota, Spanish
MA University of Minnesota, Religious Studies
MDiv Starr King School for the Ministry
Defense Language Institute, Monterey CA
City Colleges of Chicago
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Fundación José Ortega y Gassett, Toledo

Work History
Raising 3.5 daughters.
Chattanooga Times Free Press, newspaper delivery 2007-current
Montessori School, Spanish teacher 2003-2008
Adjunct Faculty, Continuing Education, Cemetery Studies, Chattanooga State
Community College 2004, 2005 2004
Adjunct Faculty, Native American Religions, Middle Tennessee State
University 2000-02
Adjunct Faculty, Spanish, Department of Foreign Languages, University of
Tennessee at Chattanooga 1999 Adjunct Faculty, Native American Religions
(Anthropology & Religious Studies), University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
2000-01
Adjunct Faculty, Native American Religions (Humanities, Chattanooga State
Technical Community College 2000-01
Director, Language Laboratory, Department of Foreign Languages, University
of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Family
Mom, 12 brothers & sisters, wife & kids, int’l student

Military Service
US Navy veteran: 1976-80 Russian & Farsi linguist (CTI3)
Defense Language Institute, Monterey CA; NavSecGruDet, Rota, Spain;
TAD, ComMidEastFor, Persian Gulf 1977-79. Honorably discharged.

Community Involvement
2007-present member, Tennessee Commission of Indian Affairs
2001-07 founding member, Advisory Council on Tennessee Indian Affairs
(ACTIA), (formerly Tennessee Indian Affairs Advisory Council); chairman
2001-03
2001-07 founding member, Tennessee Native American Convention (TNNAC)
Coordinating Committee; chairman 2001-04
2000-01 chairman, Tennessee Commission of Indian Affairs Ad Hoc Reform
Committee to re-form the TCIA into a larger, representative,
democratically-elected organization that works for Native American
Indians, makes use of the community’s human resources, and is organized to
achieve results.
1999-present, member, Advisory Board, Chattanooga Indigenous Resource
Center & Library (CIRCL)
1993 founding member, Chattanooga InterTribal Association, worked to save
Moccasin Bend, Rattlesnake Springs, Little Cedar Mountain from
development; changed UTC’s mascot; Public Relations officer, spokesman;
invited & paid for visit of Clyde Bellecourt to Chattanooga for TN Native
American Day 1996
Tennessee Eagle Awards 2002, 2005
Tennessee Historical Commission Certificate of Merit 2000

Statement of Suitability as Commissioner
Educated in Native American Indian history and politics, experienced in
state politics.