Alan Earnshaw, his wife Rebecca, and their four children during a vacation in late 2008.

Alan's Biography Alan was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. His father was a route salesman, supervisor, and sales manager in the bread industry, and his mother was an elementary school teacher. Alan is the oldest of three children; his brother lives in Utah, and his sister lives in Oregon. He received a Bachelor's degree in Marketing from Brigham Young University in 1990. He married his college sweetheart, Rebecca Thompson, and they made their home in Utah for over 10 years, while Alan ran a small computer software company. In 1999, Alan took a job with another small software company in Dearborn, Michigan, and they lived in suburban Detroit for almost two years. In the meantime, Rebecca's father retired from the U.S. Army and settled in Lower Macungie Township. While visiting their extended family, Alan and Rebecca fell in love with Eastern Pennsylvania. Alan secured a job with Air Products and Chemicals, and they relocated here in September 2000. Since joining Air Products, Alan has held several positions of increasing responsibility, managing projects, programs, and people. He currently works in the Performance Materials Division, with global responsibilities for business reporting, data analysis, and process improvement for the sales and marketing functions. When they arrived, Ann Thompson, Alan's mother-in-law, was serving on the East Penn School Board. In January 2001, she asked him to consider running for a seat on the board. After attending two meetings, he agreed to run. With only four candidates for the four open seats, he did not do any campaigning, but he did attend nearly every board meeting that year to ensure he was familiar with the issues facing the district and the board's procedures. He was elected to the board in November 2001, and sworn into office in December. In 2005, Alan was re-elected to the board, winning one of four seats in a field of eight candidates. In 2009, he was again re-elected to the board, this time from a field of eleven candidates. Alan was elected Vice President of the board in December 2004 and served in that capacity until he was elected President in December 2008. While on the board, he has also served as Chair of the Policy and Superintendent Evaluation Committees, and he led the search for a new Superintendent in 2007. In December 2007, he was appointed to serve as one of East Penn's four representatives on the Joint Operating Committee (JOC) of Lehigh Career and Technical Institute. At LCTI, he is a member of the Policy and Marketing/Public Relations Committees, serving as the Chair of the latter since December 2008. He was elected Vice Chair of the JOC in December 2009. Alan and Rebecca married in 1988 and have four children: Kathy (9th grade at Emmaus High School), Jared (8th grade at Eyer Middle School), Sarah (6th grade at Eyer Middle School), and Hannah (4th grade autistic support class at Wescosville Elementary).

[Campaign Finance Reports from the 2009 re-election campaign are available on the Campaign Finance Reports page.]