She is a retired US Navy Commander who supervised ship maintenance (Destroyers, Frigates and Carriers) and construction (Virginia Class Submarines) for most of her 21 years of service. After retiring in 2018, she went back to college (Iowa State University) for a Ph.D. in her first love – apparel design. Her studies focused on the history of sewing education and construction resulting in what she considered her third engineering degree – Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Apparel Engineering.
Now, she is in western Kansas as the Head of Collections and Curation of the Prairie Museum of Art and History. Besides creating wearable art and studying history, she is an aspiring fiction writer in the genre of historical romance. What else does one do in retirement than explore ones’ passions?