Three elected to PTA positions
Published 5:19 pm Monday, May 21, 2012
Three current or former residents of Issaquah and Sammamish have been elected to two-year terms with the Washington State PTA.
Barbara Martin of Sammamish will serve as the association’s secretary. She will be responsible for keeping accurate records of WSPTA Executive Committee, Board of Directors, convention, and Legislative Assembly meetings. She also serves on the association’s Executive Committee.
Before being elected WSPTA Secretary, Martin served as local unit president of Redmond High School PTA, secretary of Rachel Carson Elementary PTA and held a number of committee positions. At the council level, Martin served as president, secretary, newsletter editor and a number of committee positions at Lake Washington PTSA Council.
Martin also served on the Lake Washington School District budget advisory committee, volunteered for Lake Washington Schools Foundation, served as treasurer for a Girl Scout troop and served on the auction committee of Youth Eastside Services (YES). She is the owner of a marketing consulting firm.
Kimberly Montague of Issaquah was elected the association’s Region 2 Director. She will be responsible for organizing leadership workshops and providing support for the councils and local PTAs in the region, which includes the Bellevue, Issaquah, Lake Washington, Mercer Island, Riverview, and Snoqualmie Valley School Districts. She will also serve on the WSPTA Board of Directors.
Montague has been involved in PTA since 2003. At the local level, she served as a director of ways and means, elementary PTA president, and middle school PTA president. At the council level, she served as vice president, secretary and conference coordinator for the Region 2 Service Delivery Team.
Montague is a substitute teacher in the Issaquah School District.
Heather Gillette, who recently moved to North Bend from Issaquah, has been elected as the association’s Leadership Director for a two-year term. She will coordinate the association’s Leadership Conference and set the class schedule for the association’s annual convention.
She also will chair the Leadership Committee which develops, reviews and updates WSPTA’s leadership training program. She will also serve on the WSPTA Board of Directors.
Gillette began her involvement with PTA in 1994 at Carl Sandburg PTA in Kirkland, then moved to Issaquah where she was involved at Endeavour PTA, Cascade Ridge PTA, Beaver Lake Middle PTA, and Skyline High PTA.
Gillette also served as vice president and president of Issaquah PTA Council.
Founded in 1905, the Washington State PTA is the largest volunteer organization in the state, with more than 140,000 members in 900 local units across the state.
