Diana J. Ohman

Diana Jean Ohman was born in Sheridan, October 3, 1950, the daughter of Arden Eugene Mahin and Doris Marie Carstens Mahin, both natives of Kansas who had moved to Wyoming.

Ohman was reared in rural western Nebraska where her father was a heavy equipment operator and her mother was a rural elementary school teacher. She graduated from Gurley (Nebraska) High School in 1968. From 1968 to 1970, she attended Casper College in Casper, Wyoming, where she earned an Associates of Arts degree. On January 23, 1970, she married Joel Eric Ohman in Casper. She continued her education at the University of Wyoming, earning her undergraduate degree in Education in 1972 and her Master’s of Education in 1977.

For the next 19 years, she worked in the field of education, beginning as a classroom teacher and, later as a special education director and a principal, in Natrona, Campbell, and Goshen counties. She also continued work with the family sheep ranching operation.

Active in state Republican party activities, Ohman won the nomination and election as Wyoming State Superintendent of Public Instruction in 1990. She served one term from 1991 to 1995. In 1994 she was elected Wyoming Secretary of State, serving one term. On March 19, 1993, she married Gary Alvin Stover in Greeley, Colorado. In August 1999, she accepted appointment as Director of the Department of Defense Schools in Europe.