Jennifer Soliday:  

Life I was born on May 7, 1969 in Portsmouth, VA. I am the oldest child to two natives of Punxsutawney, PA (home of the Groundhog). My dad, career-military, was a Medical Service Corps Officer in the U.S. Navy. My parents retired back to their hometown. I have one younger brother, who is currently a Firearms Instructor/Officer for the U.S. Secret Service. Because my father was career-military, I relocated frequently. I lived in Portsmouth, VA; Jacksonville (Camp Lejeune), NC; Gaithersburg, MD; Guam; Aurora, CO; Kingsville and Bishop, TX and Washington, DC. After leaving home, I also lived in Altoona, PA. I attended 4 elementary schools, 4 Junior High/Middle schools, 3 High Schools and 2 universities. I graduated from Bishop High School in Bishop, TX in June of 1987. I then attended Texas A&I University (now Texas A&M University – Kingsville) in Kingsville, TX where I majored in French and History Education for 5 semesters. After my dad was stationed in Washington, DC, I took a semester off from my studies and then transferred to Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP), where I majored in History and minored in Political Science. I graduated from there with a B.A. in History in December of 1992. In July of 1992, I married Mearl Charley, a Navajo from the state of New Mexico. In between the 2 universities, I worked as a clerk-typist in the Human Resources Department of the Merit Systems Protection Board in Washington, DC. After graduation, I spent 2 years as a substitute teacher for the Camp Lejeune Dependents Schools in Jacksonville, NC. I returned to Pennsylvania in the fall of 1995, and began working for C-COR.net Corp. in Tipton, PA. I wor...Expand for more