Linda Fowler

Linda Fowler served over 25 years as a former Civil Rights Investigative Auditor with the Office of Attorney General, Department of Justice, and as a Compliance Officer with the California Gambling Control Commission. She was elected in 1971 to the former North Sacramento Elementary School District Board of Trustees and served on that board until she was elected to the Twin Rivers Board in 2008 when the district was newly unified. Trustee Fowler majored in Business Administration and has a Law Degree. She received a Masters in Governance from the California School Board Association and also has been board president three times during her tenure since the Twin Rivers’ district was unified.

Trustee Fowler has received honors for her work in education, including former Assemblyman Darrell Steinberg’s Legislature 2002 Woman of the Year; Sacramento County Board of Supervisors’ Human Rights Award in Education; and the Distinguished Award for Dedication to Education from State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Jack O‘Connell, California Department of Education. In addition to raising her own children, Trustee Fowler opened her home to several homeless children, never accepted financial assistance for them, and has always kept focused on education for all children. She formerly owned a mid-size commercial printing and graphics company and generously sponsored education programs in area school districts.