Background
Clark, Julie Elizabeth was born on June 27, 1948 in Hayward, California, United States. Daughter of Ernest Ashcroft and Marjorie Edith (Johnson) Clark.
Clark, Julie Elizabeth was born on June 27, 1948 in Hayward, California, United States. Daughter of Ernest Ashcroft and Marjorie Edith (Johnson) Clark.
Associate of Arts, University California, Santa Barbara, 1968.
She started her commercial flying career with Golden West Airlines as a first officer and ended it in 2003 as a Northwest Airlines Airbus A320 Captain. She was one of the first female pilots to work for a major airline. She has been voted as Performer of the Year several times for her performance in air shows.
Clark has 40 years of flight experience and 30,000 accident-free hours to her name and flies an average of 20 air shows a year in her Beechcraft T-34 Mentor, currently sponsored by Juice Plus.
Clark"s father, Captain Ernest Clark, was also an airline pilot. He was murdered in 1964 by a suicidal passenger on Pacific Air Lincolnshire Flight 773.
All crew and passengers were killed as a result of the passenger shooting both pilots, then himself, causing the plane to crash. Her mother"s death just a year earlier, and her father"s subsequent death, increased her determination to fly.
Member Friends Cameron Park, since 1986, Victory Fund 1984 Airport. Member International Social Affilliation Women Airline Pilots (charter), Airline Pilots Association (charter), Experimental Aircraft Association, Warbirds American (most improved warbird award 1981, ladies' choice award 1984), 99's Inc. (Southwest chapter, national Woman Pilot Year 1980), T-34 Association (chairman membership since 1985, board directors), Confederate Air Force Club (life) (colonel Oakland chapter, member general staff Pacific wing).
Club: Confederate Air Force (colonel Oakland).
Married Richard Paul Ames, May 10, 1975 (divorced 1980).