Debbie Kling, who has called Idaho home for 26 years, began her life journey in Olathe, Kansas, where she lived for 33 years. “When we first moved here I had a T-shirt that said: Toto, I don’t think we’re in ...
Read More »Danae Klimes, relationship manager, Zions Bank, Twin Falls
Danae Klimes is a Magic Valley girl, through and through. When she talks to her agricultural clients about their concerns, she knows what she’s talking about. She grew up on a farm in Wendell, watching her veterinarian father and helping ...
Read More »Erica M. Kallin, deputy prosecuting attorney and special victims unit chief, Canyon County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office
On top-rated television shows, attorneys for the Special Victims Unit see new clients every episode and can hardly wait to chase the next sensational case to splash across the media. In reality, however, at least for Erica M. Kallin of ...
Read More »Billie Johnson, physical design engineer, ON Semiconductor
When lifelong Pocatellan Billie Johnson was young, she wanted to be a motorcycle cop. “It was the time of the TV show CHiPs.” Instead, she went to engineering school. Johnson received her bachelor’s and an MBA at Idaho State University. ...
Read More »Terri Hughes, leadership coach, author, Terri Hughes LLC
When leadership coach and author Terri Hughes finished her first quarter semester in college, she almost stopped right there. “I stayed out too late and came home with grades not so good,” Hughes says. “I thought ‘college isn’t for me.’” ...
Read More »Ann O. Hubbert, director and professor of the School of Nursing, College of Health Sciences, Boise State University
Ann Hubbert was born in Burns, Oregon and grew up in Tucson, Arizona. From as far back as she can remember, Hubbert always wanted to be a nurse. She remembers being a little girl playing with dolls. Her mother would ...
Read More »Danielle Horras, director of strategic initiatives, University of Idaho
To fully appreciate everything Danielle Horras has done for education in Idaho, you have to understand her past. Horras was raised by a single mother and moved from Texas to New York to Florida and California before settling in Idaho, ...
Read More »Kristin Armstrong Savola, 2017 Woman of the Year, director of community health, St. Luke’s Health System 
It may surprise you to know that Kristin Armstrong, a three-time Olympic gold medalist in bicycle racing, didn’t start racing until the age of 29. “As a kid, my banana seat bicycle was just to get to my friend’s house,” ...
Read More »Wendy Hormon, representative, Idaho House of Representatives
When Wendy Horman, mother of five, discovered her children’s art supplies were coming back home unopened and unused, she decided she had to do something about it. So, she started and taught the Fine Arts Mini-Experience (FAME) in Bonneville School ...
Read More »Casey Holcomb, North Central district manager, Wells Fargo Bank, Moscow
When Casey Holcomb arrived in northern Idaho in October 2011, winter was a heartbeat away, and it was dark and cold. The rest of life didn’t look to be so cheery, either. Holcomb stepped off the plane from California recently ...
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