Teresa de Groh joined the Jackson Hole Fire/EMS Foundation close to its inception as the representative for the Jackson Firefighters’ Association. Teresa retired from volunteering with the Jackson Hole Fire/EMS Department after 21 years in emergency services. She started as an ambulance driver and by the time she retired she was an Apparatus Driver-Operator, EMT-Basic, Structural Firefighter II, and Wildland Firefighter II. Teresa’s other prior volunteer activities
include serving on the Wyoming Council for Women’s Issues, a Governor-appointed Council established by the state, and several organizations dedicated to emergency service.

Teresa holds a Master of Urban Planning and Policy from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Grinnell College, Iowa. Teresa worked in community planning, focusing on small town and rural communities, beginning in 1985 and served as a planner for Teton County, Wyoming from 1989 to 2003. Teresa currently works as a paralegal and she spends her free time with her family and friends hiking, camping, skiing, and generally
being outdoors.