Carolyn received her degree from BYU and served her clinical internship at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center.  She moved to Caldwell in 1974 fresh out of college and has been working for the past 32 years as a clinical laboratory scientist at West Valley Medical Center where she is also the laboratory supervisor.

Carolyn serves on the Vallivue Education Foundation and the committee for the Vallivue Alternative School.  Carolyn has been closely involved in the schools since her first child started kindergarten in 1979.  All five of her children attended Vallivue schools and all are graduates of Vallivue High School.  All five children attended college, the first four have completed their degrees and her fifth child is well on her way to completing hers also.  She acknowledges the part that the Vallivue schools, teachers and administrators have played in the lives of her children and hopes that her time as a trustee can, in some way, compensate for the dedication of those people.