About Roy
I was born and raised in Great Falls and moved to Missoula to attend the University of Montana in 1999. I graduated in 2003 with a double major in English Literature and Psychology, and decided to make Missoula my permanent home.
My first post-collegiate job in Missoula was at Aware Inc., a youth home in town, as a treatment service technician. In 2005, I was fortunate to get a good union job at Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation as an operator on the paper machine. While working out at the Mill, I quickly realized that an integral component to the Mill was the local union United Steelworkers 885. I began going to the union meetings and my interest and enthusiasm was rewarded by the membership when I was elected President in 2007.
As union president, I worked on building a forest products initiative within the United Steelworkers to guide forest policy for our over 177,000 wood-products workers. I have helped to build a better communication lines within the local union, and increase our involvement in state and federal legislative process. I fought hard to keep good-paying jobs out at the mill while in Washington DC, and have strived to ensure the 300+ hourly workers out at Smurfit-Stone receive the best possible wages and benefits during tough economic times.
Missoula has been good to me, and I would be honored if granted an opportunity to reciprocrate and enhance this amazing community through serving on City Council. I met my wife Andrea here, and we bought our first house on the Westside. I have made a decent living and enjoy all the great amenities Missoula has to offer. I have a lot to give back to the community if offered the opportunity to serve as alderman in Ward 2. I would view it as a service that I can provide for a community that has given me so much.