tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19826668885311101212010-04-22T18:18:44.571-06:00Sharon Ullmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03077279260794644955sharonu@cableone.netBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1982666888531110121.post-232192579592269712009-08-07T01:43:00.010-06:002010-03-31T16:24:12.792-06:00<u><div align="center"><span style="font-weight:bold; font-size:18px">Biography</span></div></u><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-style:italic;">There are things I’d do differently, but there’s nothing I’m ashamed of. </span><br />~ Georgette Mosbacher</span></div><br />My past and present experience includes:<br />• Serving the public as one of three full-time Ada County Commissioners. Ada County, with a population of 408,000, has 1600 employees and an annual budget of $171 million. <br />• Receiving the first Max Dalton Open Government Award.<br />• Serving eighteen years as a public advocate on sewer implementation rates, water rates, garbage collection rates, schools, property taxes and open government.<br />• Chairing the Region IV Early Childhood Committee for children with developmental disabilities.<br />• Chairing the Salvation Army’s Booth Family Care Center Advisory Council for pregnant and parenting teens.<br />• Serving on the Idaho Newspaper Foundation Board to advocate for full access to government.<br />• Earning a degree in Social Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley.<br />• Raising six children: Emily 23 – in graduate school, Kevin 22 – in college, Kelly 20 – in college, ten-year-old twins Michael and Melody, and Angelina, age six.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1982666888531110121-23219257959226971?l=sharonu.com%2Fbiography' alt='' /></div>Sharon Ullmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03077279260794644955sharonu@cableone.net