Background
Conte, Andrea was born on February 13, 1941 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Louis William and Rosalie Conte.
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Conte, Andrea was born on February 13, 1941 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Louis William and Rosalie Conte.
After moving to Nashville, she attended night classes at the University of Tennessee downtown campus (now Tennessee State University Avon Williams campus) and received an M.B.A degree in 1983.
She is the wife of former Tennessee Governor Philosophy Bredesen (2003–2011). She is a 1968 graduate of the University of Washington and a registered nurse Not to be confused with the Villanova field hockey player.
She spent her childhood in Great Barrington, graduating from Searles High School in 1958.
She trained as a nurse at Mercy Hospital in Springfield, Master of Arts, receiving her Registered Nurse in 1961 and subsequently her bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of Washington in Seattle in 1968. On December 7, 1988 she was kidnapped and injured in the parking lot of her retail shop in Nashville She fought, and was able to escape the kidnapper’s car as it drove on the road.
As first lady, she continued her work on victims" rights issues, a commitment that arose from her 1988 kidnapping. In 2004, she walked 605 miles across Tennessee (from Memphis to Bristol) to spotlight and raise funds for child advocacy centers in her state.
She is a frequent speaker on these and other subjects, both in and outside of Tennessee.
She also headed a project to restore and renovate the Tennessee Governor"s Residence. The renovation includes a subterranean addition built underneath the Residence"s front lawn called Conservation Hall, designed by the Memphis architecture firm archimania.
Active Commission on Future of Tennessee Judicial Systems, Juvenile Justice Reform Commission, 1998. Chairman You Have the Power Committee. Board directors Family and Children's Service, 1988—1991, Cumberland Science Museum, 1988—1993, Shepherd's Center of West End, 1989—1991, Tennessee Performing Arts Center, 1989—1997, National Conference of Christians and Jews, 1991—1994, St. Thomas Hospital, 1994—1999, Fisk University, 1995—2001, Frist Center Visual Arts, since 1998.
Married Philip Norman Bredesen, November 22, 1974. 1 child, Benjamin Conte.