Janine Miner grew up in Idaho, Mexico, Canada, and various locations throughout the United States. After serving a full-time mission in Guatemala, Janine graduated from Brigham Young University in 1995 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing. She enjoyed teaching large group meetings at the Provo Missionary Training Center and working as an operating room nurse before helping her husband, Curtis, found their commercial architecture firm where she currently works as office manager. Church service is important to Janine, and she has served in various ward and stake leadership positions. Her responsibilities have included leadership of stake YW camp and a stake youth trek. Janine was introduced to American Heritage School in 1998 when Curtis was asked to be the architect of the American Fork

David Andersen and his wife Tricia are the parents of five wonderful (and rambunctious) children, three of whom attend American Heritage. In 2016, they moved from David’s native land (Mesa, Arizona) to American Fork to be close to American Heritage, BYU, and the mountains. David is the litigation chair for the BYU Office of the General Counsel, where he manages litigation matters for BYU, BYU–Hawaii, BYU–Idaho, and Ensign College. After serving a mission in Maceió Brazil and receiving a bachelor’s degree in business from BYU’s Marriott School, David graduated from BYU’s J. Reuben Clark Law School, where he served as Executive Editor of the BYU Law Review and as a fellow for the International Center for Law and Religion. After law school, David served as a law clerk to the Hon. J.L. Edmondson, then chief judge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, in Atlanta, Georgia. Thereafter, he practiced law at Jennings Strouss & Salmon in Phoenix, Arizona and later became a partner at Bacal Andersen & Garrison Law Group. David is passionate about family, religious freedom, intellectual property, education law, and BYU athletics. Tricia teaches school in the home and has served the AHS ultimate frisbee coach. The Andersens are grateful for the opportunity to be part of an exceptional school community that is and always will be part of their heritage.

Mr. Andersen was elected to the AHS Board in 2020 and serves as the Chairman of the Legal Committee.

Grant Beckwith joined American Heritage School as principal in 2005. In addition to serving as the head of school, Mr. Beckwith also serves as the director of the school’s Family Education Center and enjoys teaching a high school seminar each year entitled “Principles of Leadership.” Mr. Beckwith serves in a number of volunteer organizations including on the Board of Governors of the Northwest Association of Independent Schools and the Board of Directors of the Younique Foundation, a non-profit organization devoted to inspiring and empowering children and women who are victims of sexual abuse. Mr. Beckwith is an active member of the LDS Church and a life-long member of the Boy Scouts of America. Prior to joining American Heritage School’s administration, Mr. Beckwith was a practicing attorney for the Washington D.C. office of Nixon Peabody LLP. A member of the Utah Bar, the Virginia Bar, and the District of Columbia Bar, Mr. Beckwith is a graduate of the BYU Law School and also holds bachelors and masters degrees in accountancy and information systems from the BYU Marriott School of Management. Mr. Beckwith has lived and worked in Moscow Russia, New York, New York, and Washington D.C., and grew up in various parts of the United States including Utah, California, Texas, Florida and Wisconsin. Mr. Beckwith served an LDS mission in Russia (St. Petersburg) from 1993-1995. He and his wife Candice live in Alpine, where they are raising four children (kinder through high school, all attending AHS), goats, chickens, ducks, snakes, dogs, and cats, as well as a few wild foxes and raccoons, who seem to stay well fed by the chickens and ducks. The Beckwiths are deeply honored and grateful to be involved with the mission of American Heritage School, and to associate with the many extraordinary families who are drawn to it.

Brent L. Bishop is a consultant and board member for numerous entities. In addition to serving as a Trustee at American Heritage School, he’s a trustee for Weber State University and serves on the BYU President’s Leadership Council and the BYU Pathway President’s Leadership Council. He founded and served as CEO of Greenbacks All-A-Dollar and co-founded FranklinCovey. He is the Founder and Chairman for Sharetix Foundation, which receives and distributes tickets to events to qualified charities who constituents are deserving but unable to attend on their own. He and his wife Jill live in Farmington and have ten children. He was elected to the Board of Trustees in 2023 and also serves on the AHS Worldwide Advisory Board.

Hal Boyd is executive editor of Deseret National. He was an associate professor of family law and policy at Brigham Young University’s School of Family Life and previously worked as the opinion editor and as an enterprise reporter for the Deseret News. He is a fellow of the Wheatley Institution and is a graduate of BYU and Yale Law School.

Hal is married to Holly, who works part time for Cooper Savas accounting in downtown Salt Lake City. They are the parents of four young children, and the two oldest attend American Heritage Schools Salt Lake City Campus.

Dr. Jenet I. Erickson is an Affiliated Scholar at the Wheatley Institution and former assistant professor in the School of Family Life at BYU. Her research specializing in maternal and child wellbeing has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, U.S. News and World Report, Slate Magazine, and the Today Show. She has authored more than 20 scientific articles and book chapters and presented at national and international conferences. In 2004, she was selected as a Social Science Research Fellow for the Heritage Foundation where she completed research analyses on non-maternal care for policy makers. Erickson received B.S. and M.A. degrees from Brigham Young University, and a PhD in Family Social Science from the University of Minnesota. She is currently a columnist on family issues for the Deseret News National Edition. She attended American Heritage School throughout elementary school and was nurtured in a love for America and an education grounded in the scriptures and the restored Gospel. She completed training at the Foundation for American Christian Education (FACE) in 1999 and has participated as an instructor in FACE trainings at American Heritage School since that time. Mrs. Erickson and her husband Michael live in American Fork with their two children. She is a granddaughter of H. Verlan and Shirley Andersen, and a daughter of James and LaDawn Jacob from Orem, Utah. Mrs. Erickson served one term from 2007–2011 and was elected for a second term in 2019. She serves as Chairman of the Curriculum Committee as well as Chairman of the Commitment to Care Committee.

Shannon Foster is a wife and a mother and founder of The Red Headed Hostess, a business dedicated to helping individuals and families fall in love with the scriptures.  Shannon taught seminary full-time for thirteen years and then turned her sites to how she could help parents learn skills to help them teach their children in the home. She has a passion for discovering the very best learning methods and has spent thousands of hours researching what those are. Shannon has written over 30 gospel-focused study journals and now has a team of graphic designers, artists, photographers, writers, and other teachers to help create tools that encapsulate methods that truly help people learn.

Shannon and her husband Tyson have two children at American Heritage.

Brett Gerlach grew up in Minnetonka, Minnesota. He attended BYU, served a mission in Helsinki, Finland, and returned to BYU to study Computer Science, where he met and married Vicki Richards. A summer internship with Microsoft led to fulltime work there, first developing software for printing in Windows, and later developing software to help manage large networks of computers. Brett eventually finished his bachelor’s degree at the University of Washington and went on to complete a Master’s in Business Administration at the Wharton School, where he was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Award and graduated as a Palmer Scholar for outstanding scholarship. Ten years ago, while completing his MBA, Brett left Microsoft to start Brevium, a software company that helps medical practices identify patients that need care and contact them. In 2006, Brett moved the company and his family to Utah. He currently serves as President and CEO of Brevium. The Gerlachs have ten children, two graduates of American Heritage and three others now attending. The Gerlachs have fallen in love with the school, and earnestly hope that its influence can grow to bless many more families.

Mr. Gerlach has been an AHS Board member since April of 2014. He serves as Chairman of the Finance Committee and a member of the Development Committee.

Shannon Rasband Norton is the fourth daughter of Elder Ronald A. and Melanie Rasband. She is married to David A. Norton and they have five children—three of whom are currently enrolled at American Heritage, AF campus. The Nortons have attended the school for 10 years and have nothing but praise for the faculty, staff, and facilities that make it so special.

Shannon graduated from BYU with a Bachelor of the Arts and a minor in Marriage, Family, and Human Development. She has had a portrait and special events photography business since 2003.

David and Shannon had a special needs child, Paxton, who had chronic health conditions and needed 24-hour care. It was a great honor and blessing for Shannon to care for and learn from him in the three miraculous years of his life. As a result of her frequent experience at Primary Children’s Hospital in SLC, Shannon was invited to serve on the Parental Advisory Board and helped to advocate, create, and implement the Comprehensive Care Program that exists today for children with special needs and chronic healthcare conditions or disabilities.

Shannon is a passionate learner and she is grateful that American Heritage is helping to instill this love of learning in her own children. She is grateful to be able to contribute in any way to the educational institution that has blessed her family so much.

Laurie Swim and her husband, Gaylord, became involved in American Heritage School as parents. Gaylord served as chairman of the Board for ten years until his death in February 2005, when Laurie was elected to succeed him. Laurie was born and reared in Provo, Utah, and received an associate of arts degree from Brigham Young University. She is board chairman of the GFC Foundation and has served on the Young Women General Board (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), Southern Virginia University, Mentors International, and Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge. Laurie is the mother of five children and grandmother of nineteen.

Mrs. Swim has been an AHS Board member since 2005, served as Chairman of the Board from 2005–2011, and currently serves as the Chairman of the Facilities & Design Committee as well as a member of the Finance Committee.

Mary Kay Ware grew up in Juab and Utah Counties.  She graduated from BYU in 2000 with a BS in Family Science.  She loved teaching 5^th grade at AHS for two years until marrying and moving to Maryland for two years.  She and her husband, Michael, have six children, all of whom have attended AHS.  Her oldest daughter graduated in 2022 from AHS.  She loves AHS and is grateful to be a part of the school community.  She has served on the AHS Curriculum Committee for the past 15 years.  She served one term on the Board from April 2011-June 2015 and is excited to serve again.  She loves to read, travel, garden, and play pickleball and tennis.  Best of all, she loves being a wife and mother.

David T. Warner is Co-founder of WarnerBoothe and consultant to national brands in media, marketing, and communications. In the global arena, he has led the development of apps and websites, print and digital content, inspirational media, and major educational and leadership initiatives in over a hundred languages for an active audience of 4.5 million. As a writer and director of film, network television, radio, and large-scale live productions, his work is performed somewhere in the world on most nights of the year and has been presented by Walter Cronkite, Tom Brokaw,  Jane Seymour, Edward Herrmann, Richard Thomas, Kristin Chenoweth, Hugh Bonneville, and Brian Stokes Mitchell, among others. His concert broadcasts with The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square regularly draw the highest PBS viewership in their category. He is the author of seven books and his texts have been published by Oxford University Press for over two decades. David holds a PhD and has been a Managing Director for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

Shannon Brown and her husband, Brad, are the parents of six children, have been at the school for eight years, are the parents of one child currently at the school, grade 8, and two who graduated from AHS. In addition to her service at AHS, which includes President of the AHS Parent Service Organization for the 2017-18 year, Shannon is also involved with various community organizations, including as both a choir member and volunteer administrator for Utah Valley’s Millennial Choirs & Orchestras. With her appointment to the AHS Board, Shannon concluded her service as AHS Parent Service Organization President, but remained an active supporter of the AHS PSO.

Mrs. Brown has been a Board Member since 2018 and serves as the Chairman of the Development Committee.