STORY AND PHOTO BY KAREN BOSSICK

Pack a sack lunch and meet candidates for Idaho Attorney General and State Superintendent today—Sunday, July 12.

The Blaine County Democrats are holding a Brown Bag Lunch Meet and Greet for Lori Hickman, a candidate for Idaho Attorney General, and Becky Sundin, candidate for State Superintendent at the Hop Porter Park Pavilion.

The conversation will be held from 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. And the pavilion will provide shelter from the sun.

Lori Hickman is a veteran Idaho attorney with two decades of experience in civil litigation, corporate counsel and public service. Her family history in Idaho stretches back generations from pioneer settlers in southern Idaho to homesteaders in western Ada County.

She herself is a Borah High School graduate from Boise, who earned a bachelor’s degree in finance and a law degree at Brigham Young University. She started her legal career at Latham & Watkins in New York where she practiced complex business litigation before returning to Idaho where she was recruited as associate general counsel for Micron Technology.

Dr. Becky Sundin was named the 2018 Idaho Teacher of the Year, chosen from a field of more than 18,000 teachers. A graduate of Northwest Nazarene University, she earned a master’s degree in science education from Montana State University at Bozeman and an Ed.D. in curriculum, instruction and assessment from Walden University.

During her tenure as Teacher of the Year she met with then-U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and represented Idaho on multiple national stages. She has taught English and science in grades 6-12 in public schools and public charter schools. She also has taught dual-credit courses that helped students earn college credit, served as a lead in online instruction, built a robotics program that grew into Competitive FIRST teams and mentored students through the Idaho Science and Aerospace Scholars program.

And, as a mother of a son with autism, she is familiar with special education services.