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Executive director of Northwest Utility Contractors Association (NWUCA)

One of Jennifer Dixson鈥檚 goals as the leader of NWUCA is to promote the trades as a viable option for teens graduating from high school.聽In February 2020, she visited multiple high school counselors to encourage them to have their students attend NWUCA鈥檚 career fair.聽

鈥淚 was getting an overwhelming positive response and our career fair was shaping up to be the largest one yet,鈥� she said. 鈥淐OVID hit in March and that canceled our career fair, but I want to pick back up with that momentum.聽Our industry needs to maintain a qualified work force to survive, and I want to spread that message to as many people as I can.鈥�

NWUCA is a family that Dixson has come to know well. She began by serving as an associate board member and officially joined as an assistant in 2015. On Jan. 1, she was named executive director, taking over for her mother, Melinda Dailey, when she retired.

鈥淪ince becoming the executive director, I have had the opportunity to have meetings with many different municipalities, speak with other organizations and I am learning so much,鈥� she said.聽

Describing herself as a 鈥淭ype-A,鈥� Dixson said that planning NWUCA鈥檚 events, especially its holiday auction, plays to everything she loves doing.聽

鈥淚 also enjoy our members so much and feel extremely fortunate to have an active board of directors.聽They are always willing to help in any way and have shaped NWUCA into what it is today,鈥� she said.