From 2007 to 2014, she served as President/CEO of Scottsdale Training and Rehabilitation Services (STARS); a nonprofit organization providing services and programs for developmentally disabled individuals. In 2002, Korte resigned as chair of the Board of Directors for the Scottsdale Area Chamber of Commerce to serve as its President/CEO. She was the Executive Director of the Center for Native and Urban Wildlife at Scottsdale Community College and an adjunct faculty member at Mesa Community College and at Scottsdale Community College, where she taught General Biology and Environmental Biology.

Ms. Korte completed her second term as a member of the Scottsdale City Council in 2020, having been elected by the citizens of Scottsdale in 2013 and reelected in 2016.  Current community service includes a board position with First Things First Navajo/Apache Regional Partnership Council, President of the Pinetop Lakes Association and serving on the advisory board for Scottsdale Leadership.

Past community service includes serving on the boards of Desert Botanical Garden, McDowell Sonoran Conservancy, Scottsdale Leadership, DC Ranch Community Foundation, and the Engineering and Natural Sciences Advisory Council for Northern Arizona University. Additionally, she is the past president of the Maricopa Community Colleges Foundation Board, the City of Scottsdale McDowell Sonoran Preserve Commission, the Governor’s Growing Smarter Advisory Council, the Heritage Fund Advisory Council for the Arizona Game & Fish Department, and Arizona Town Hall Board of Directors. In 1992, Korte was elected by the citizens of Maricopa County to serve on the Board of Directors for the Central Arizona Water Conservation District that governs the Central Arizona Project.

In 2019 Ms. Korte was honored by the city of Scottsdale as one of 12 Preserve Pioneers who helped lead Scottsdale’s preservation of 30,500 acres of Sonoran Desert habitat, making the McDowell Sonoran Preserve the largest urban preserve in the United States. Ms. Korte was recognized for her unwavering advocacy to adopt a nondiscrimination ordinance in Scottsdale (protecting the rights of LGBTQ communities), and recipient of the 2021 Local Heroes Award from One Community, and the 2017 Sheila Kloefkorn Individual Equality Award sponsored by the Human Rights Campaign. Additionally, she received the Scottsdale Area Chamber of Commerce Legacy Award in 2010, was inducted into Scottsdale’s History Hall of Fame in 2006, received the 2003 Preservation Champion award co-sponsored by the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and McDowell Sonoran Land Trust; the 1998 Outstanding Leadership and Volunteer Award from the Scottsdale Chamber of Commerce; was selected as the 1995 recipient of the Frank W. Hodges Alumni Achievement Award by Scottsdale Leadership and received the 1995 Distinguished Leadership Award by the National Association for Community Leadership.

Virginia, with her wife Beth Carson, enjoys her three stepchildren, their spouses, five grandchildren (and one on the way), and her two canine companions.

He served as a member of the Arizona House of Representatives from 1976-1990; Justice of the Peace for the Maricopa County Maryvale Justice Court from 1990-1992; and special assistant to Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano from 2003-2008. He received the Cesar Chavez Lifetime Achievement Award and the Martin Luther King Community Service Award. He also is Director of the Grant Park Recreation Center and a member of the Grant Park Neighborhood Fight Back. He and his wife, Mary Rose Garrido Wilcox, run a local Mexican food restaurant and have a daughter and five grandsons.

Martin, who spent 20 years as an attorney for Valleywise Health, was honored with a Counsel of the Year Award by AZ Big Media in 2022. Previously, he was a Deputy County Attorney under Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley, where Martin worked in areas related to public health, health care and government relations. Martin also worked as contract employment counsel with Honeywell.

A professional musician, Martin is Principal Trombonist with the Arizona Opera Orchestra and the Bear Valley Music Festival Orchestra. Before becoming an attorney, he held positions with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the Florida Symphony Orchestra and has worked as a musician at Walt Disney World Orlando. His wife of 41 years is also a professional musician and teacher.

Martin received his B.A, History from Indiana University, Bloomington and his J.D. in Law from the Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law.

Martin volunteers with Abounding Service, where he assists refugees to learn English.

Kate served six years in the Arizona House and four years in the Arizona Senate. During that time, she won numerous awards for her landmark legislative work, including Best Elected Official in the State of Arizona for an unprecedented two years running in 2019 and 2020. Most recently Kate received the 2021 Mercy Care RISE Lifetime Achievement Award for her reforms to child welfare and Arizona’s Medicaid program.

Kate is known nationally for her work establishing the Department of Child Safety, which transformed Arizona’s child welfare system from a national disgrace to a national model. In 2020, Senate Bill 1523 (“Jake’s Law”), a bill Kate sponsored passed, establishing parity for treatment of behavioral health disorders – ensuring that mental illness will be treated just as physical illness is treated.

Kate continues to serve on numerous boards and commissions, including the Maricopa County Planning & Zoning Commission and co-chair of the Governor’s Commission to Prevent Violence Against Women.

Thomas is a Certified General Real Estate Appraiser. He served as Mayor of Litchfield Park from 2000 to 2006, and as a member of the city’s planning and zoning commission from 2006 to 2012.

Born and raised in Towson, Maryland, Thomas received his bachelor’s degree in dairy science from University of Maryland College Park in 1975. He worked in the U.S. Department of Agriculture from 1977 to 2016.

His other accomplishments include service as:

• President, Colorado Association of County Supervisors (a federally recognized employee association of professional employees)
• Chair, Management Committee, National Association of County Supervisors
• President, Arizona Association of Credit Specialist (formerly County Supervisors)
• Chair, Arizona Appraisers Coalition (representing 6 professional appraisal societies to the state Legislature)
• Litchfield Park Recreation, Arts, and Parks Commissioner
• Vice-Chair, Maricopa Association of Governments
• Chair, Maricopa Combined Federal Campaign

Thomas, who is widowed, has two daughters and one grandson.