Virginia has 24 years of teaching experience, all with middle level age children. She started as a 5^th – 8^th grade reading teacher at Marty Mission. After getting married, she taught 7^th grade reading and English at Kellogg Jr. High, Kellogg, Idaho. In 1986 she and her family moved back to South Dakota where she taught rural school (5-8) and junior high reading, English, and 7^th grade social studies for Harding County. For the last 14 years she has been at the Sturgis Middle School teaching 6^th grade writing, English, and math. Virginia graduated from BHSC and received her master’s degree from NSU. She is a member of SDAMLE, PDK, MEA, Lookout Memorial Hospital Auxiliary, and Our Savior’s Lutheran Church. Her husband, Lee, is a Fire Prevention Forester for the government. They have three grown daughters.