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
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.
Shawn Keough
Shawn Keough of Sandpoint retired as the executive director of the Associated Logging Contractors of Idaho (ALC) in December of 2024. The ALC is an organization of Idaho based independent logging and wood hauling contractors with whom she worked for twenty-four years. Her work experience over the course of her career is in the fields of business and association management, governmental affairs, and public relations.
Shawn was elected to serve in the Idaho State Senate from 1996 to 2018, making her the longest-serving female State Senator in Idaho’s history at that time. Her service included 18 years on the legislature’s Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee, of which three years were as co-chair. She retired from the legislature in 2018.
Shawn and her husband reside in Sandpoint and have been married 38 years. Shawn holds an Associate of Science in General Studies from North Idaho College, an Associate of Arts in Liberal Arts and a Bachelor of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies from Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho.