Background
Frances Smith grew up on a dairy farm in Simpsonville, Kentucky.
educational psychologist politician
Frances Smith grew up on a dairy farm in Simpsonville, Kentucky.
University of Kentucky.
After graduating with a bachelor"s degree in health and physical education from Murray State University in 1963, she taught at Westport High School in Jefferson County and worked at various residential programs for children. In 1976, Smith received her doctorate in educational psychology at the University of Kentucky. She met Ted Strickland there the day after Christmas in 1973.
After she graduated, Frances Strickland served as a public school psychologist for many years.
As president of Smith Educational Enterprises, Strickland wrote The Little Girl Who Grew Up to Be Governor, a 1991 children"s novel about Martha Layne Collins, the first female Governor of Kentucky. She is largely given cr for the design of the "Beautiful Ohio" license plate that was introduced in 2009 and served as Ohio"s standard license plate from 2010 to 2012.
Foreign Strickland, its agricultural theme, particularly the windmill, recalled her childhood on a dairy farm.