Sherrie Hansen, State Farm

Sherrie Hansen will be our Women in Business guest speaker on July 21, 2010.

Sherrie has been in the insurance and financial services business for 24 years. She earned her bachelor's degree in education from Utah State University. She taught high school for 8 years before starting her insurance business in St. George, Utah with State Farm Insurance.. She built her business by helping her clients protect their assets, recover from the unexpected, and by helping them reach their dreams and prepare for retirement.

Sherrie spent four years in management with State Farm as an agency consultant in Colorado and returned to Cedar City, Utah in 2000 to again run her own State Farm Insurance business. She is licensed as a registered representative for State Farm VP Management Corp, Underwriter and Distributor of Securities Products, and is a member of the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisers .

Sherrie is actively involved in the community where she serves on the Safety Solutions Coalition, the WWII Memorial and the Veterans Memorial Park Committee, and the Chamber of Commerce Board. She is a member of the Professional Advisory Committee for Planned Gifting at Southern Utah University. She is an active member of the Rotary Club of Cedar City and served as the first female president of the club.

Last year Sherrie completed a course from the American College entitled “Marketing Financial Services To Women.” She knows that women are powerful consumers but are overlooked, misunderstood, and underestimated. Women make up 53% of today’s financial wealth. She wants women to be empowered with knowledge so they can manage, grow, and protect their investments and assets. Making sure each client has the proper insurance and financial program in place so they are prepared for what the future holds is her main goal and objective.

She enjoys traveling to new destinations with her husband Scott, hiking (completed a 27 mile rim-to-rim hike of the Grand Canyon in September), reading, fishing, and spending time with her children and seven grandchildren. She can be reached at 435-586-4467 or at sherrie@sherriehansen.net.