Mrs. Kingsley grew up in Sylvania, Ohio. Both her B.A. and M.A. in Education were received from Bluffton College. She has taught for 24 years in Illinois and Ohio.  Her family includes a husband and three children. Mitch is a practicing attorney in Bluffton.  Her youngest daughter, Catherine, is working as a researcher for NIOSH at the Pittsburgh Research Laboratory.  Her son, Paul,  is an attorney working in land development and real estate in Phoenix, AZ and Puerto Penasco, Mexico.  Her oldest daughter,  Elizabeth, works for Benchmark Technologies Corporation in Findlay, OH.  Mrs. Kingsley's grandson, Antony, has been promoted to fourth grade at Bluffton Elementary.