Karen was first elected to the Board in 2002 and reelected in 2006. Karen earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University and her Masters in Business Administration from the Tuck School at Dartmouth College. She has business experience as a programmer, user support analyst, and as an operational auditor. She also has taught programming and management classes at the college level and worked as a substitute teacher in the Scottsdale Unified School District. Her volunteer activities include serving on PTO boards at four schools, five years on Scottsdale Parent Council, site councils at two schools, executive board of Arcadia Pride, and more than ten years in scouting leadership. Currently she works in leadership development at the AZ School Boards Association. Karen is married and has two sons.
Current term of office: 2007-2010

Mrs. Jennifer Petersen
480-484-6238
e-mail: jpetersen@susd.org

Mrs. Bonnie Sneed
480-484-6238
e-mail: bsneed@susd.org     

Bonnie was elected to the Governing Board in 2008. She and her husband Gary have three children and two grandchildren. They moved to Scottsdale in 1998 from Northeast Ohio, where Bonnie worked as a technology coordinator in elementary and middle schools. She has served as an executive director for the Arizona Alliance for Arts Education and has volunteered extensively in Scottsdale schools over the last 10 years on school site councils at the elementary, middle and high school levels and with parent groups for all of her children’s schools. Bonnie was president and co-president of the Arts in Education Council for Scottsdale schools for three years, on the Executive Committee of the Scottsdale Parent Council for four years, on the Steering and Executive Committees of the International Baccalaureate Parents Organization, and a member of the Superintendent’s Blue Ribbon Advisory Council for three years. She and her husband are founding members of the Scottsdale Unified School District Foundation. She has also been an active Band Booster and has served on several District-wide committees, task forces and curriculum materials adoption committees. She is a graduate of Scottsdale Leadership, Class XXII, and received her degree from Arizona State University and Barrett Honors College.
Current term of office: 2009-2012