·        Betty Pace- has taught school, served as a guidance counselor and Director of Federal Programs.  She is a certified grant writer and grant reviewer for the US Department of Education. She was Director of a Title 1 Program that won national acclaim toward excellence in education for the state and US Department of Education for two consecutive years.  Betty is the author of seven children’s books, Donald’s Dump Truck, I Miss My Dad, Donna’s Christmas Birthday, Abraham Lincoln, Clippety-Clop, Clippety-Clop, Two Little Rascals and Chris Gets Ear Tubes, which has sold over three hundred thousand copies in both English and Spanish. Two Little Rascals is her latest children’s book.  She specializes in sensitive childhood issues and has published more than a hundred articles and poems. Betty is a frequent newspaper columnist and is currently working on a novel which will be published in 2010. In 2008 Betty was a Sixth District Delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado having won over several opponents in seventeen counties in Kentucky.  She attended the 2009 Presidential Inauguration in Washington DC along with 1.5 million other people. She works as a full time writer and makes school visits.