Category: Local Officials

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Council Member

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Ginny Dickey was elected to her first term on the Town Council during the Primary Election on March 14, 2006. Because she received the highest number of votes, the Town Council unanimously appointed her to fill a vacancy on the Council for the remaining term ending May 31, 2006. A resident of Fountain Hills since 1983, Ginny has been very involved in the community. She was elected and served on the Fountain Hills Unified School District Board from 1994 to 2002, twice as President. A Charter Member of the Fountain Hills Cultural Council Board for seven years, Ginny also served nine years on the Fountain Hills Community Theater Board. She is a member of Metropolitan Business and Professional Women, the American Association of University Women, Scottsdale Branch, the League of Conservation Voters and the Sierra Club. She participated in all of the Fountain Hills Town Hall planning sessions, starting in 1984. Ginny works as a Legislative Liaison for the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality. She previously was on the staff of the Arizona State Senate and has been a bookkeeper and substitute teacher. Born and raised in New York, she lived in Vermont and New Hampshire before following her parents and family members to Fountain Hills. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Boston’s Tufts University. Ginny is married to Jim Dickey, Director of Public Transportation at ADOT, and has three sons, Mike, Brian and Frank Chin, a daughter-in-law, Jessie and grandchildren Amelia and Colin.