Dianne McGuire's Biography

Dianne McGuire was born and raised in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. She graduated from O‚Gorman High School and was the first in her family to complete college, earning a Bachelor of Arts Degree from South Dakota State University, as well as a Masters in Education/ Reading from Northern Illinois University.

In 1979 she began her full time teaching career at Madison Junior High School in the Naperville Consolidated Unit District 203 as a reading teacher. For the next twenty seven years she taught language arts and geography to 6th, 7th, and 8th grade Madison students, retiring in 2006. During this time she also served in a variety of leadership roles within the Naperville Unit Education Association, the Illinois Education Association, and the National Education Association.

In 1996, she and her husband, Fred Greenwood, opened The Guilty Party, Ltd., a small business which specializes in catered parties and corporate functions. Dianne has also recently (2006) received a Certificate of Professional Achievement in Mediation Training from the DePaul University Center for Dispute Resolution.  As an educator and a business owner, Dianne knows firsthand the needs of the children, families, and hardworking residents of District 96. She wants to be their voice in Springfield, taking on the state officials to make sure that the needs of the citizens of Southwest DuPage County are met.

Dianne is an energetic, resourceful, persistent, compassionate problem solver who will be an effective advocate for the many concerns of the residents of the Naperville and Aurora area. She will fight for our fair share of state resources, necessary to keep property taxes down; she will work to maintain a positive environment in which small business owners can be successful; she will propose legislation to address the traffic congestion on Rt. 59; she will be the voice of firsthand experience on all education issues; she will be a leader who listens.

Dianne is currently active in Naperville as the Secretary of the Villas of the Fields Homeowners Association, as an appointed member of the Fair Housing Commission for the City of Naperville, and is a member of the American Association of University Women, the League of Women Voters, and the Naperville Area Chamber of Commerce.

Dianne is the mother of two grown daughters, Lisa Brennan and Molly Dickman.