Dr. Michelle Aldrich is currently the Wyoming state director of career and technical education (CTE) and Perkins funding. She spent eight years teaching the family resource management strand at the University of Wyoming as adjunct faculty. She has been teaching at two Wyoming community colleges over the last 26 years in nutrition and education. Dr. Aldrich was a family & consumer science teacher at Triumph High School in Cheyenne for 15 years, which is the oldest and largest alternative high school in Wyoming with 250 students in grades 9-12. Dr. Aldrich has won national teaching awards in culinary arts, was named the Wyoming CTE teacher of the year, and has received honors such as the 2021 Rising Star Award from Advance CTE and the 2021 Wyoming Women of Influence in Education.
She is currently serving as an assistant governor for Rotary District 5440. She is the past president of Zonta of Cheyenne, DKG Upsilon Chapter, past president of the National Association of Teachers of Family Consumer Science, which represents over 3000 FACS teachers nationally, and the past president of the Wyoming Early Childhood Association, past president of Cheyenne Rotary After Hours, and past state president of Delta Kappa Gamma Wyoming Alpha Xi State Chapter. Michelle currently serves on the Cheyenne School Foundation Board, the Governor’s Corrections Industry Board, and the National Council of Governors’ Health Summit. She has previously served as a Governor appointee on the Wyoming Women’s Council, the Department of Family Services Advisory Council for several consecutive terms, and also on the Wyoming Early Child Care Licensing Board. Michelle also serves on the Cheyenne City Council, representing Ward 3.
Michelle is married to her high school sweetheart, Andy, with whom she has been together for over 48 years. Andy and Michelle have two daughters, Abigayle and Adrielle, who are both educators: Abigayle is a professor of art education at the University of Northern Colorado, and Adrielle is a 2nd-grade teacher in San Diego. She has two grandchildren, Geela and David. She loves to garden, read, and travel with family.
Region D: Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wyoming
