Meet  Anne

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• MBA and MA recipient, having worked in tech, healthcare, finance, communications, and academia
   

• Helped manage official U.S. Residence in Apia, Samoa: hosted veterans, Peace Corps, heads of state, diplomats, and children from Samoa Victim Support group; family was also posted in Beijing, Shenyang, London, and D.C.
   

• Women's Leadership Institute, Political Leadership certificate recipient
   

Anne was born in Cedar City and raised in Davis County in a family where adding value to the community was a way of life. Her father served as a juvenile-court judge, and her mother taught high school English. Today, Anne lives in Layton and remains deeply connected to the community that raised her, with a family history stretching back to Christopher Layton.

 

Anne’s focus on building community has taken her around the world as the former spouse of a U.S. diplomat, living in China, the United Kingdom, Samoa, DC, and Philadelphia, shaping her belief that leadership is about connection and responsibility, not status or power.

 

In Samoa, she volunteered with the Peace Corps to help clean out the Samoa Victim Support Group (SVSG) offices after Cyclone Evan, working alongside local advocates helping families recover from the crisis. She has interfaced with heads of state, hosted the Peace Corps for Thanksgiving, hosted U.S. veterans for Veterans Day, hosted diplomatic receptions, volunteered at SVSG as a teacher, treated children from SVSG to Easter egg hunts at the official U.S. Residence in Apia, and adopted a child from SVSG.

From her international experience, Anne understands how to navigate diverse, intricate touch points, negotiating solutions through a combination of sound data and empathy. She understands diplomacy on micro and macro levels.

 

Professionally, Anne has worked across healthcare, technology, finance, communications, and academia. She holds both an MBA and a Master’s degree in English, bringing both clear thinking and human understanding to complex problems.

 

Anne is the proud mother of five and grandmother of four. She is running to help preserve dignity and stability for families in Davis County and to bring steady, human-centric leadership back to public service.