Palin Appoints Alaskans to State Boards on June 22, 2009

08/03/2009

Governor Palin reappointed Margaret A. Volz to the Alaska Children's Trust Board.

The seven-member board seeks to prevent child abuse and neglect in the state by awarding grants from the Alaska Children's Trust's net income to community-based programs, by applying for private and federal grants, and by soliciting contributions to the Trust.

Volz, of Wasilla, has been a nurse and pediatric nurse practitioner in Alaska since 1986, working at Alaska CARES, an abuse victims' clinic, since 2006 and from 1997-99; at The Children's Place in Wasilla from 1998-2007; at Matanuska Health Care Associates from 1994-98; and as a school nurse for the Matanuska-Sustina Borough School District from 1986-92. She was named the Alaska Nurse Practitioner of the Year in 2000. Volz earned a bachelor's degree in nursing from the College of Saint Benedict in St. Joseph, Minnesota, and a master's degree in nursing fromt he University of Washington.

Volz has served on the board since 2007 and was reappointed to a public seat.

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