Upcoming Speakers

Dr. Janet Burns joined Rotary after participating in a RI Group Study Exchange (GSE) to Australia. She has been a Paul Harris Fellow and a Rotarian for almost 25 years. Janet has served in several Club Executive positions and on numerous committees in three Districts and in five Clubs.

Currently, she is a member and the Club Secretary for the Livingston Sunrise Rotary Club. She also serves as an Assistant District Governor for Clubs in Sector 12: Ypsilanti, Ann Arbor, Dexter, Milan, and Highway M-36; and as an ambassador and an advisory board member to the Guatemala Literacy Project (GLP), an RI Global Grant recipient for the past several years.

In her professional career, Janet has been a teacher, a building/central office administrator, a university professor, a charter school state supervisor, and an educational consultant with the Michigan Department of Education. She received her Bachelor’s and Doctorate Degrees from Michigan State University; and her Master’s and Educational Specialist Degrees from Central Michigan University.

After retiring, as a Superintendent of Schools in 2004, Janet became a flight attendant and then later decided to go to medical school (University of Detroit Mercy) to become a physician assistant (PA). As a PA, she has worked in breast oncology, urgent care, geriatric medicine, and family medicine.
In her spare time, Janet enjoys doing pet therapy work, entertaining, reading, skiing, watching spectator sports, participating in the “arts”, and traveling. For the past five years, she has had the opportunity to attend several RI Conferences; and has served on several mobile medical mission trips to Haiti, Jamaica, and Guatemala.

Janet lives in Brighton with her cocker spaniel (Ellie). She also enjoys “getting away” to her second home in northern Michigan.