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Show GENEVIEVE Elected ATWOOD 1975 to 1981 Genevieve Atwood served in the utah House of Representatives from 1975 to 1981 representing the Avenues and Federal Heights areas of Salt lake City. Her major interests in the legislature were the pol i tical process, the apropriations process, issues concerning social services/corections/ health, and natural resources. Her major accomplishments included Utah's Open and Public Meetings Act in 1977 and utah's Mined Land Reclamation Act in 1975. She also co sponsored three earthquake safety laws, and chairing the joint appropriations sub-committee on social services which at that time and included health corrections. Frustrations not included succeeding in getting a rational landlord-tenant act passed. Genevieve was raised in Salt Lake City near the University of Utah in the house her grandfather built in the 1930s. At age 14, she left home for schooling back East which included high school near Boston (where she became a Republican), aa bachelor's degree in history with an emphasis in the history of science from Bryn Mawr a a co l I ege, as year working secretary in Paris, France, and a master's degree in geology from Wesleyan University which included a thesis in Central America. Her first Honduras, mapping professional position as a geologist was with the ijational Academy of Sciences in Washington D.C. where she worked on international environmental problems and policy issues related to mining and the environment. At age 27, in part influenced by Robert H.Hinckley, returned home to Utah of Representatives. she and ran for an open seat in the Utah House Atwood ran for the legislature from a relatively moderate-to Rita liberal swing district, during the aftermath of Watergate. Urie, her predecessor, a woman and a Democrat, had set a precedent for what became over 20 years of female representation from that district. (Urie, Atwood, Walker and Julander). Genevieves' training as a geologist helped her campaign door-to-door and contrasted with her opponents'professions as attorneys. It surprised many of her of freshman followers that she was one only two Republican legislators to win in 1974. Rep. In the real world of work, Genevieve worked for Ford Bacon and large engineering and construction firm. She categorized Uni ted urani urn mi 11 tai I ings in the western States, compared surface coal mining technologies, and monitored the hydrology and geology at mines. After her defeat in 1980, when she ran for the Senate, Governor Matheson appointed her as the first woman State Geologist in the Uni ted States and in that capaci ty she served eight years as Director of the utah Geological and Mineral Survey. As a geologist-administrator she enabled the 40 earth scientists at Davis, the a Survey to make Utah safer, richer and better understood geolgically. 171 |
