Janet Ford (nee Pitts), also an inaugural co-chair, lives in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma USA. She completed a BA from University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma in 1983. She has been with her domestic partner, Rose, for 21 years, and was married in 2015. Janet worked for 20 years as a Social Worker for the State of Oklahoma, Program Supervisor for The Office of Client Advocacy, until 2003, at the age of 43, when she was no longer able to perform the essential duties of her job due to FTD. She was diagnosed with Pick’s disease/ FTD in 2006. Her hobbies are clay sculpting, stone carving in alabaster, painting, and advocacy, and she is a proactive person, who is loyal, trust worthy, caring, compassionate, a natural leader, and a good example to our youth. Her role as advocate and founding member of DAI was significant. Jan resigned in May 2015.
Janet Ford