Craig Phinney, President             Shirley Phinney, Vice President
Board of Directors
Elaine Haugen
Treasurer
Don Rivers
Secretary
Craig grew up in a law enforcement family in Mitchell, South Dakota and Sheldon, Iowa. 
Craig attended Iowa Lakes Community College in Estherville, Iowa and Des Moines Area Community College in Ankeny, Iowa with an interest in Criminal Justice.
  
Craig is a retired veteran of the United States Air Force and Air Force Reserves with 24 years of service and a 23 year veteran and sworn Officer with the Ankeny (Iowa) Police Department. 

Craig has over thirty-three years of law enforcement experience and has held assignments as a Military Working Dog Handler and Trainer,  Field Training Officer, Narcotic Detection (K9) Handler, Detective with an emphasis on Financial Crimes and was assigned to the Central Iowa Financial Crimes Task Force (Des Moines) and an Executive Board Member of the Iowa Law Enforcement Intelligence Network (ILEIN).

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Shirley grew up in a law enforcment family in Lineville and Des Moines, Iowa.

Shirley is a graduate of Des Moines Area Community College, Ankeny and Grandview College in Des Moines with Degrees in Criminal Justice.  

Shirley has sixteen years afiliated in law enforcement experience including the Drug Enforcement Administration, as an Administrative Assistant, Reserve Police Officer and as an Emergency Communications Specialist for various Metro area Law Enforcement agencies. 

Shirley is currently a District Loss Prevention Supervisor for Walgreens' Corporations in W Des Moines, Iowa responsible for 44 stores throughout central Iowa. 

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Don has over 40 years in marketing and sales with management positions with two Fortune 500 companies. Don spent 8 years in College text book publishing both in sales and editor over eight different subject areas for Holt Rinehart and Winston, Rand McNally and William C Brown Companies. He then served as National Accounts Sales Manager for Better Homes and Gardens Books - division of Meredith Corporation for over 9 years. Next Don helped start a new division for Hon Industries- XLM for 2 years building it to a 10 million dollar division. 

Don became Vice President for Marketing and Sales for SteelWorks which has been renamed Hirsh Industries. 

He retired from Corporate life to work with startup companies and independent retailers both consulting and selling labels, cards and gifts, as well as serving on various Church Leadership Boards.
Elaine has been on staff at Holy Trinity Lutheran for 15 years as the Minister of Caring. Her duties include: Promoting congregational members to view health holistically, be better consumers of health care and understand the church's role in maintaining and enhancing good health, assisting the pastoral staff in providing care, support, and nurture to members in crisis, illness, transition or difficulty. Elaine has also organized and supports the Mathew 25 ministry areas which include over fifty different outreach projects serving the Ankeny community and with Health Cabinet to provide support for families in a number of ways. 

Before coming to Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Elaine also worked with Lutheran Social Services of Minnesota. Elaine has served as the program manager for two programs covering a four counties area in northern Minnesota for twenty years.

Most of her personal interests revolve around nature, such as canoeing, kayaking reading, fishing, camping, hiking and allowing God's creation to renew my spirit in many ways. Elaine currently serves with the Iowa Crisis Response Teams, Mental Health Debriefing Team of Iowa, Synod Council, and Advisory Board for Polk County Conservation, Advisory Board of Ankeny Service Center and with Cops Against Cancer. Elaine’s 
loves her job at HTLC and look forward to serving my God, my congregation and the community! 

This year Elaine received two awards for her dedicated work with the floods and tornadoes of Iowa. The awards were presented by Governor of Iowa and the Residents of Parkersburg, Iowa for her hard work and organization of assistance Teams following the F5 tornado that destroyed much of this Iowa community.