Dorothy Lynn Phillips, Ph.D. – Candidate for Trustee
Lynn Phillips has been a resident of Washtenaw County for 15 years. She and her two children moved to Scio Township in 2007 of her desire to live in a more rural community. Based on Lynn’s deep respect for the environment and keen interest in responsible land management, she helped found COURSE, an Ann Arbor-based organization whose mandate is the prevention of non-sustainable types of development in Washtenaw County. Dr. Phillips has been active for the last five years in the Camp Fire program whose goals are to instill in children a respect for and appreciation of the natural environment. Toward this end, Lynn has helped to arrange fundraisers for the restoration and maintenance of Camp Wathana, a several hundred-acre camp and open green area, whose mission is to provide children from all parts of Michigan access to a natural, wooded area. She has helped to organize educational activities designed to promote children’s awareness of the need for green space with the ultimate goal of helping them become the next generation of responsible land stewards.
Dr. Philips believes all politics is ultimately local and is most interested in working with the concerned citizens that comprise the board to keep Scio green.
Lynn earned her doctorate in clinical psychology in 1990 from the University of Detroit with a specialty in child and adolescent development. She has practiced privately since that time. She is engaged to a Navy Captain who has seen duty in Iraq and will be returning to civilian life in 2009.