Amy T Koch

The daughter of Larry and Janet Hance, Amy is a fourth generation resident of Wright County who grew up with her three brothers and two sisters on their family farm just outside of Buffalo in Chatham township. Amy graduated from Buffalo High School and attended Concordia College in Moorhead before enlisting in the US Air Force in 1992. It was during her time in the military that she met and married her husband Christopher and gave birth to their daughter, Rachel. Amy served her country as a Russian Linguist, graduating from the Defense Language Institute at the Presidio of Monterey, California before being assigned to the National Security Agency in Fort Meade, Maryland just outside of Washington DC. She graduated with honors at all stages of her military training and received the Joint Service Commendation Medal for her contributions to the intelligence community. Upon receiving her honorable discharge in 1996, Amy returned home to Buffalo and went to work helping to manage and build her family’s utility service company which more than doubled in size over the next few years. Attending classes at night and on the weekends, Amy earned her B.E.S. from St. Cloud State University with a minor in Business Administration, graduating in the spring of 1999.