LINDSAY HULL

By Howard Greninger Tribune-Star

While Lindsay Hull, and her identical twin sister Lauren, were born in Belleville, Illinois, and raised in the Hoosier city of Peru, she had family connections to Terre Haute.

“My parents [Steve and Debra (Stultz) Hull] were born and raised in Terre Haute and went to [Indiana State University],” Hull said. Her mother graduated in the last class from the former Garfield High School in 1971 and her dad was among the first graduating classes from Terre Haute South Vigo High School.

Hull’s mother graduated from ISU, while her father transferred from ISU, graduating from Indiana University South Bend. Her parents still live in northern Indiana, along with a brother, Wes. Her sister lives in Wisconsin, but Hull still has other relatives living in Terre Haute.

“I came to Terre Haute for a job and I didn’t know how long I would be here, but it has been almost 10 years now,” Hull, 37, said. “Terre Haute is a great and very welcoming community where you can be involved and get to know so many people and be welcomed in. The folks in Terre Haute are so warm and welcoming and are excited to have people be a part of the community,” Hull said.

Part of that community participation for Hull is serving as a volunteer operations director for Care Communities at Maryland Community Church.

“My parents were foster parents before I was born, so my two oldest brothers [Scott and Steve] are adopted out of foster care,” Hull said. “I grew up thinking that was normal, that everybody had brothers who were in foster care first. That is my connection to fostering.”

A Care Community is a team of five to eight people who help and support a foster family.

“When a family has a foster child, there are all the normal things you expect from having a biological child, but

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■ Human Resource data analyst at Union Hospital.

■ 2016 graduate of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College with master’s degree in leadership development with an emphasis in organization leadership; 2008 graduate of Evangel University with bachelor’s degree in mathematics education.

■ Volunteers as the Care Communities Operations Director for Maryland Community Church.