Linda Davidson -Trustee
Linda Davidson been a board member since 2005.  Her background is in education and business, starting her career as a public education instructor in high school and college, and since 1990 and currently she is a business coach for managers and executives and she facilitates seminars and retreats in team building, communication and planning.  She has a master’s degree in business (MBA) and a master’s degree in counseling (MSE).  Her library activities include tutoring in the library’s adult reading program, co-chairing the One Book One Mesa County committee for three years, and as an activist in the bond election efforts.  She and her husband Joe moved to Grand Junction from Dallas in 1998.  Their son lives in Denver. 

Laurie Cahill - Vice President

Sally Matchett - Secretary
Sally Matchet has been a board member since 2002, starting shortly before the two bond election efforts.  She has a PhD in Philosophy and retired in 2006 from Mesa State College where she taught Philosophy courses for 27 years.  She has served on various community boards and committees over the years.  Currently she is a member of Spellbinders, the Hospice Ethics Committee, the Two Rivers Chautauqua committee, and the Colorado Women's Golf Association course rating committee.  She and her husband, Ken, moved to Grand Junction in 1972.  Now a widow, she spends as much time as possible visiting her three married daughters (and four grandchildren); one set lives in Denver and two sets live in Davidson, North Carolina.

Jean Yale - Trustee
Jean Yale has been a board member since 2006.  She has a M.A. in Adult Education and a MLS. A retired university administrator, she has also been a librarian, a teacher and a Career Counselor. Currently she is a District 51 substitute teacher.  She is a member of Spellbinders, League of Women Voters, Colorado West Quilters Guild and American Association of University Women where she chairs the Jane Quimby Book Group.  She volunteers at the Grand Junction Visitor and Convention Bureau, the Literacy Center and is co-librarian at The First Congregational Church.  A love of travel has taken her many places to hike and bike.  She has four children, two here and two in Washington State, and five grandchildren.

Mark Martin-Williams - President
Mark Martin-Williams has been a board member since 2006. He is currently the Manager of the Alpine Bank branch in Fruita. Mark has been married to his wife, Jenny, since 1995 and they have three young daughters. He has a BA in English Literature from Colorado State University and an MBA from the University of Colorado at Denver. After Mark finished his undergraduate degree, he spent seven years as a stockbroker in Denver, two with Morgan Stanley and five with Charles Schwab. Mark returned to the Western Slope (having been from Glenwood Springs originally) when he came to work for Alpine Bank in Grand Junction in 2004. In addition to the Library Board, Mark also sits on the Homecare of the Grand Valley Board, and is the current President of the Fruita Area Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors.

Fred Smith-Trustee
Fred Smith has been on the Board since 2009. His background is Real Estatw Development and Construction Planning and Design. For the past 13 years he has been the President of his own firm that specializes in large project planning, design and construction. He attended the University of Utah with studies principally focused on Philosophy and Political Science. Prior to founding his own firm he was  Vice President of the Aspen Skiing Company responsible for all planning, design and construction. He has previously held positions as Board Member of the Pitkin County Planning and Zoning Commission, the Pitkin County Election Commission and was for two terms Chairman of the Frying Pan Caucus.

Laurie Tashiro -Trustee
Laurie Tashiro is a native of Wisconsin. Having graduated from the University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh with a Masters Degree in Curriculum and Supervision, she taught the full spectrum from preschool to college freshman. Upon moving to Vail, Colorado in 1979 her focus changed to the hospitality industry and she joined her husband in Tashiro Marketing & Advertising. Nowadays Laurie is retired and enjoys farming peaches, painting and volunteering at the Clifton Branch of the Mesa County Libraries.