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The
San Luis Obispo County CattleWomen are pleased to announce
Terri Allen Woods as their choice for 2004 San Luis Obispo
County CattleWoman of the Year.
Terri
Woods has been a member of the CattleWomen for over 12 years.
She was county president, and has served as 1st vice president,
2nd vice president, director and Beef Ambassador Committee
chair. She also has chaired or co-chaired the Cattle Ranching
Field Trips, Fair Booth, Internet and Publicity committees,
and has assisted with the Pioneer Roping, Scholarship, Ag
Task Force, Casino Night, and Scrapbook projects. She is
proud to have helped win the California State Beef Council's
Walt Rodman Award for Best Beef Promotion Project, with
the San Luis Obispo CattleWomen's Internet Project, the
Harris Ranch Beef Pre-Cooked Meal Sampling at the California
Mid-State Fair, and this past year's project - sending beef
jerky to our troops overseas as part of Operation Care Package.
Terri is also active at the state CattleWomen level by currently
serving as the Beef Ambassador chair, as a charter member
and director of A California CattleWomen's Heritage Foundation
501(c)3, and as the former publicity chair.
Terri
Allen Woods was raised 90 miles north of Elko, Nevada, on
the Jackson family's Petan and Silver Creek ranches where
her father, Ray Allen, managed the horse division. Educated
through the eighth grade at a one-room ranch schoolhouse,
she was active in FFA and on the rodeo team at Elko High
School. Her parents moved to California in 1972, where they
managed the Jackson's horse racing and farming divisions
in Santa Barbara, as well as the cattle on the Alisal Ranch
in the Santa Ynez Valley. Ray Allen is a longtime member
of the Cattlemen's Association, and is a current director
of San Luis Obispo Cattlemen. He is also the 2004 Honorary
Vaquero for the Santa Barbara Fiesta Rodeo. Terri's mother,
"Mike" Allen works for the California Mid-State
Fair, and is the secretary for San Luis Obispo CattleWomen.
Terri has one sister, Vicki Penwell, a missions pastor and
the director of the international Mercy in Action School
of Midwifery based in Boise, Idaho; and one brother, Braig
Allen, manager of Old English Rancho, a major thoroughbred
breeding and racing facility near Sanger, California.
After
graduating from Santa Barbara High School, Terri attended
Cal Poly for a year before going to work full time in law
enforcement. Her first job was as a dispatcher/matron at
Carpenteria Police Department before her career took her
to Fairbanks, Alaska, and Jackson, Wyoming, for several
years. Participation in law enforcement rodeos led to marriage
and a move to Austin, Texas, where her daughter Kate was
born in 1985. Unfortunately, the marriage was brief and
Terri moved back to California with her two-year-old daughter
to live near her parents in Paso Robles. Kate graduated
from Paso Robles High School and is now a college student
at the Mercy in Action School of Midwifery, finishing her
degree by spending the next year at a maternity clinic in
the Philippines.
After
a law enforcement career which had included duties as a
dispatcher, jailer, patrol assignments and responsibilities
as a hostage negotiator and trainer, Terri went to work
for the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Department as a
civilian employee. Her current position is a rural crime
prevention specialist, working with agricultural interests
to prevent and reduce crime through education and training.
She has been on the board of directors of the California
Rural Crime Task Force and coordinates the Sheriff's Citizen
Academy.
Terri
has enjoyed her time away from work and CattleWomen duties
as well, by spending some time as a 4-H group leader and
church youth group leader. She is now very active at her
church, Mercy Vineyard in San Luis Obispo. Personal interests
are still riding and competing when time allows, and helping
to gather and brand cattle when asked. She says that the
best times of all are spent with daughter Kate, family and
friends-and being able to give back to the industry which
raised her by contributing a little bit to the great work
that CattleWomen do to educate and support our young people
and consumers about the benefits of beef and of the cattle
ranching industry.
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