Utah Mother and Young Mother of the Year

Dixie Clifford, Utah Mother of the Year, 2009

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Dixie grew up in Paradise, Utah in a loving family where spiritual and moral values were taught. While a student at Utah State, she met and married Lincoln Clifford, her husband of 52 years. She has been blessed with four children and seven grandchildren. Born with a positive mental attitude and boundless energy, she has focused her life on homemaking and mothering with “spare” time spent in youth leadership and volunteer work in the schools, communities and churches of the six states where she has lived. A prolific writer and musician, she inspires young people to achievement and patriotism through her work in PTA, Scouting, 4-H Club work, school and church programs. She is a published author of essays, poems, newspaper feature stories and photos, with a novel, The Dictionary, slated for Christmas 2009. As a re-entry woman earning a Communications degree, she was named Student of the Year by her professors. In 1992, she was named Commissioner of the Year by the Los Angeles Area Parks & Recreation Commission for 123 cities.

Danielle Kennington, Utah Young Mother of the Year, 2009

Danielle Kennington

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Danielle was born in Massachusetts, but mainly grew up in California and Utah. She lives in Provo, Utah with her husband and daughter.

She had the unique experience of living in France and Switzerland with her family. Danielle lived in France when she was 14, where she attended 8^th grade for 7 months. When she was 18, her family moved to Switzerland where she worked at an institution for mentally and physically handicapped for a year and a half. She speaks French fluently.

Danielle has a Bachelors and Masters Degree in Special Education. She taught children with learning disabilities for 10 years, until she and her husband adopted our daughter, Ginny, in February of 2005. They are currently on the waiting list for adopting another child.

Danielle is the Director of the Waterford Early Learning Community Center in Provo.  She also is a volunteer storyteller at her local library.