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Gail with Chinese farmers in Liaoning Province during recent business visit to China.
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Ambassador Gail Schoettler has had a varied and successful career in politics, diplomacy and business. Currently, she is Chairperson of the Board of Fischer Imaging Corporation and serves on the boards of Masergy Communications, A4S Security, and Aspen Bio, Inc., where she also chairs the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees. In addition, she serves on the Audit Committees and chairs the Compensation Committees of A4S Security and Aspen Bio, Inc. She has been a United States Ambassador, Colorado's Lt. Governor and State Treasurer, an entrepreneur, a professional speaker, and a newspaper columnist. She has met with heads of state and traveled to over 70 countries, talking to and negotiating with political and business leaders.
President Clinton appointed Dr. Schoettler United States Ambassador to the 2000 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) held in Istanbul. She led a delegation of 162 U.S. telecommunications experts in a very successful treaty negotiation with 189 countries on the allocation of radio spectrum for commercial and government uses. Her current political involvements include helping women across the country win high public office and helping young women and men get into politics.
Dr. Schoettler is a cattle rancher
who rode Sam (this beautiful horse)
across the entire state of Colorado.
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Dr. Schoettler served as Colorado's Lt. Governor from 1995 to 1999. In 1997, she co-chaired the successful G-8 Summit of world leaders held in Denver, Colorado. She negotiated solutions to some of Colorado's toughest environmental problems and led a highly successful educational reform. From 1987 to 1995, Dr. Schoettler served two terms as Colorado State Treasurer and as a trustee of the Public Employees Retirement Association, the state's $24 billion pension fund. She was elected to two terms on the Douglas County Board of Education, serving four years as president, and was a trustee of the University of Northern Colorado. Currently, she sits on four non-profit boards, the Center for Women's Health Research at the University of Colorado, ProgressNow, Colorado Conservation Trust, and Gunnison Ranchland Conservation Legacy.
Dr. Schoettler received her BA degree with honors in economics from Stanford University and her MA and PhD degrees in history from the University of California at Santa Barbara. She has founded two banks and continues to help run the California cattle ranch where she was raised and to manage several real estate partnerships.
Among her many awards is the French Legion of Honor, France's highest civilian award, presented to her by French President Jacques Chirac. Ambassador Schoettler is married to Dr. Donald Stevens, Managing Director of the Institute for International Business at the University of Colorado at Denver. Together they have five children and live in Parker, Colorado. She recently conquered her great fear of heights and finished climbing all 56 of Colorado's 14,000 foot high peaks.
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