Vice Mayor Ginny Dickey was elected to her first term on the Town Council during the Primary Election in March 2006. Since she received the highest number of votes, the Town Council unanimously appointed her to fill a vacancy on the Council for the remaining term ending May 31, 2006. She then began her official 4 year term, and was reelected in March 2010.
Since 1983, Vice Mayor Dickey has been very involved in the community and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2010. She served on the Fountain Hills Unified School District Board from 1994 to 2002, twice as President.
A Charter Member of the Fountain Hills Cultural Council Board for seven years, Vice Mayor Dickey also served nine years on the Community Theater Board, earning their Founders Award in 2009. She is a member of Metropolitan Business and Professional Women (2007 Woman of the Year), the American Association of University Women, the League of Conservation Voters and the Sierra Club. She participated in all of the Fountain Hills Town Hall planning sessions, starting in 1984.
Vice Mayor Dickey was Assistant Director of Legislative Affairs for the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality for 7 years. She previously was on the staff of the Arizona State Senate and has been a bookkeeper and substitute teacher. Ginny contracted with the US Attorney's Office working on community safety programs until August 2011.
Born and raised in New York, she lived in Vermont and New Hampshire before following her parents and family members to Fountain Hills. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Tufts University.
Vice Mayor Dickey's family includes husband Jim, sons, Mike, Brian and Frank Chin, daughter-in-law Jessie and grandchildren Amelia, Colin and Jack.
Contact Vice Mayor Dickey at: gdickey@fh.az.gov