Joyce M. Broadsword (born June 18, 1958, in Sandpoint, Idaho) served as a Republican Idaho State Senator from 2004 to 2012 representing the 2nd District.

Early life and career

Broadsword attended

Sandpoint High School Sandpoint High School is a four-year public secondary school in the northwest United States, located in Sandpoint, Idaho. It is the larger of the two high schools in the Lake Pend Oreille School District; the other is Clark Fork in Class 1A. ...

and graduated in 1976. She and her husband John have been married for more than 30 years, are the parents of three children: Brian, Andrew, and J.C., and have 7 grandchildren. She has owned Northern Log Homes since 1978, Contracted Courier Service since 1993, B&B Builders since 2001, and was an executive of Downtown Sandpoint Business Association in 2004. She was a volunteer for

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for Senate in 1990,

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, and

2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...

. She was a volunteer for Dirk Kempthorne for governor in

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

and

. She was City coordinator for

Butch Otter Clement Leroy "Butch" Otter (born May 3, 1942) is an American businessman and politician who served as the 32nd governor of Idaho from 2007 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he was elected in 2006, and reelected in 2010, and 2014. Otter ...

for Idaho Campaign in

. Broadsword accepted the position o
North Idaho Regional Director
for the Department of Health and Welfare in 2013.

Committees

* Finance, member * Finance Appropriations, member * Health and Welfare, vice chair * Transportation, member * Member, 2010 Olympic Committee, 2006–present * Senate representative, board of directors, Idaho Rural Partnerships * Alternate delegate, Pacific Northwest Economic Region * Senate representative, Western Legislative Forestry Task Force

Organizations

Her involvement with organizations has included: * President, Kootenai Better Community, 1990–present * President/chair, Idaho Women in Timber, 1996–2001 * Chair, Federated Women in Timber, 2002–2003 * Treasurer, Idaho Women in Timber, Bonner Chapter, 2002–present * Secretary, Rotary Club of Sandpoint, 2004–present

References

External links

Idaho Legislature - Senator Joyce M. Broadsword
''official government website''
broadsword4idaho.com
''official campaign website''
Project Vote Smart - Senator Joyce M. Boadsword
profile *''Follow the Money'' - Joyce M. Broadsword
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