Candidate for
Council Member; City of Santa Rosa

Julie's commitment to community service started at an early age in North Carolina when she formed her high school's first ecology club and started recycling newspapers. She graduated from high school at the age of 16, but her college plans changed when her father died suddenly a year later. She worked her way through college, earning a degree in Psychology. After college she worked with autistic adolescents, and later in the locked ward of a state mental hospital.

Married, and with a new baby, Julie continued her education, earning a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Syracuse University. She worked as an American's with Disabilities Act Coordinator and a Rehabilitation Engineer and later became a Senior Plans Reviewer for the city of Asheville, North Carolina, working to save historic buildings without compromising public safety.

When she and her family moved to Ohio, Julie took on the job of the first Executive Director of the Ohio Manufactured Homes Commission. While working as a housing inspector in 2000, Julie noticed smoke billowing out of the home next door. She told a neighbor to call 911 and then raced into the building to help a toddler and the family dog to safety by crawling out below the smoke. For her bravery, Julie was given the Governor's Award for Safety and Heroism.

Julie moved with her family to Santa Rosa in 2007, and immediately started her community involvement by founding of the Neighborhood Association for Bennett Valley (95405.org). She was also instrumental in the establishment of the Southeast Greenway Campaign and a leader of a community-wide visioning process for the future use of the 50-acre, two-mile long stretch of undeveloped property in Bennett Valley.

• 95405 Neighborhood Association Newsletter--Founder and Editor
• Vista Del Lago Community--Board of Directors
• Leadership Institute for Ecology and the Economy--Class of 2010
• Democratic Party Central Committee--Alternate Member
• Local Business Owner
• Syracuse University Degree in Mechanical Engineering
• Former Plans Reviewer and Planning Commissioner