Idaho Leadership Fund
Supporting Idahoans as we all work together to preserve the values that make our state great.
team leadership
Lt. Governor Scott Bedke
The people of Idaho elected Scott Bedke as the state’s 44th Lieutenant Governor in November 2022 after his decade long service as the Speaker of the
Idaho House of Representatives.
Scott is committed to maintaining the Idaho Way. This includes a pledge for a limited government, a quality education for every student, and a plan for our state’s water supply. It also means keeping the values that matter most, like being a good neighbor, at the forefront.
Contributors
Lt. Colonel (Ret.) Matt Bundy
Matt's extensive service to our country included B-52 nuclear alert duty from 1985 until 1991. Diplomatic duties included, escorting Russian and Ukrainian officials on Arms Control treaty inspections, briefing Chief of Staff from Bulgarian Air Force and serving as a liaison officer with NATO allies. He also planned B-52 cruise missile strikes during Kosovo campaign, flew combat sorties in Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and was a nuclear plans advisor at US Strategic Command with duties including briefing war order options to National Command Authorities.
His service also included years of instructor experience including in-flight and classroom instruction where he taught in-flight navigation, weapons employment, adversary tactics and targeting.
Following his retirement in 2004, Matt continued his public service by serving as a High School Civics Teacher, Baseball Coach, City Councilman and Idaho State Representative.
Julie Amador, PhD.
Julie is Associate Dean of Research in the College of Education, Health and Human Sciences at the University of Idaho and a Professor of Mathematics Education. She received her Ph.D. in 2010 from the University of Nevada, completed a postdoctoral fellowship position at Indiana University for two years, and joined the University of Idaho faculty in 2012, working in Coeur d’Alene. Julie is currently Principal Investigator or co-Principal Investigator on four National Science Foundation funded projects, all focused on mathematics education. She actively leads funded projects from the Idaho State Department of Education and Idaho State Board of Education.
With her background as a former elementary school teacher, Julie’s research work focuses on the professional noticing of students’ mathematical thinking in a K-12 educational context, with a focus on how teachers and teacher educators attend to and interpret thinking. In the last decade, he has published 62 articles in blind-peer reviewed academic journals and given more than 100 conference talks in the last decade, presenting her work in five different continents.
Dr. Amador is currently the Director of the Idaho Regional Mathematics Center, providing professional development to teachers throughout the northern portion of Idaho.