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Biography of Sidney Armstrong
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Biography
Sidney Armstrong was elected as a Trustee of the Greater Montana Foundation in 2008 and appointed as Executive Director in 2011 by the Board of Trustees. Ms. Armstrong is a consultant who lives and works in Helena, Montana.
Sidney was Executive Director of the Montana Community Foundation from 1990 to December, 2001. Earlier she served on the staff of Montana Governor Thomas L. Judge, as staff for the Montana State Senate and with the Montana State AFL-CIO and the Montana Democratic Party. She was also part of Governor Brian Schweitzer’s administration, as a member of his Transition Team (2004), temporarily as part of his immediate staff and then as a volunteer Advisor. In 2006, she served as a coordinator for the Governor’s Conversation on Endowments and Philanthropy. Long active in community affairs, she is a board member for the Montana History Foundation and most recently has served on the boards of Humanities Montana and the Holter Art Museum.
Sidney is a native Montanan and a graduate of the International School of Geneva, Switzerland and the University of Montana. Armstrong’s Irish immigrant maternal great-grandparents came in a covered wagon to Virginia City in 1865. Eventually they settled as ranchers on the banks of the Missouri River outside Helena. Her late father, Associated Press newsman Richard K. O’Malley, grew up in the mining city of Butte and his book, Mile High, Mile Deep, recounting his youth, was recently republished by well-known painter and publisher, Russell Chatham. She is the mother of four and the grandmother of eight.
Publication Date
Fall 2015
Recommended Citation
Armstrong, Sidney and Barrett, Evan, "Biography of Sidney Armstrong" (2015). Biographies and Photos of Series Participants. 21.
https://digitalcommons.mtech.edu/crucible_bios/21