Candidate for
Director; Sacramento Municipal Utility District; Ward 7

Energy Experience

• Consultant to California Energy Commission

• SMUD Rate Advisory Committee Member 1999-2001

• Twenty years of experience in large and small business management

• Current Vice-President for Aspen Environmental Group Sacramento Operations

• First Woman Vice-President at Aerojet

• Sacramento Metro Chamber of Commerce Past Board Member (served 6 years)

• UC Davis Executive Program Graduate

• 1993 Woman of Achievement Award - Downtown Capitol Business & Professional Women

• Who's Who of American Women, 18th Edition

• Doctorate in Environmental Science & Engineering UCLA - 1981

• Over 20 years of experience in the field

• City/County Toxic Substances Commission
• Sacramento Environmental Commission
• Representative to the Water Forum: 1995-2000
• Steering Committee Chair - Cleaner Air Partnership (joint project of Sacramento Metro Chamber of Commerce and the American Lung Association)
• Advisory Committee for AB3777 (Risk Management Prevention Programs)

• American Lung Association - Individual Award for Outstanding Contribution in Air Quality, 1995
• Sacramento Safety Center Incorporated - Eagle Award for Safety, 1998

• Past President, League of Women Voters of Sacramento (LWVS)

• Past President, American Lung Association # Emmigrant Trails

• Trustee, St. Michael's Episcopal Day School

• Vestry Member & Junior Warden, St. Michael's Episcopal Church

• Facilitator, Carmichael Community Action Plan

• Carmichael resident since 1984

• Married 28 years to husband Paul Phinney MD, a local pediatrician

• Two daughters - Robin, graduate student at the University of Michigan, and Karen, a sophomore at UC Santa Barbara