Speaker Biographies

Linda S. Dieleman, MS, RD, LN

Linda Dieleman is a Manager for the Saint Paul Public Schools Food Service in Minnesota. Saint Paul Public Schools has a centralized kitchen and approximately 80 school program sites. Linda is responsible for the school operations and the Child and Adult Care Food Program sites. She co-chairs the HACCP team for the school district food service.

She received her Bachelor’s degree from Iowa State University and her Master of Science from Pennsylvania State University, with graduate level courses in industrial relations, curriculum design, and accounting at the University of Minnesota. She is a Registered Dietitian and a Licensed Nutritionist.

Linda conducts ServSafe classes as well as HACCP classes for school food service professionals. As a trainer in the Minnesota Department of Children, Families and Learning, she also provides a number of workshops, including how to meet the special needs of students with disabilities. She has been with the Saint Paul Schools for over 10 years and previously was an Assistant Professor with the University of Minnesota where she was responsible for interdisciplinary statewide programs on food safety and nutrition issues. Her work experience also includes developing an interactive microcomputer system at the Nutrition Coordination Center for the National Center for Health Statistics to use in national research studies. She has also been a Nutrition Educator and supervisor for five years for an extension program designed for low income homemakers.

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