About Isabel
Isabel Piedmont-Smith is a Bloomington native and first-generation American born to German immigrants. She is a graduate of Bloomington High School South and received a BA in History from Oberlin College and an MAT in Social Studies Education from Boston University. From 1998 to 2022, she served as fiscal officer and department administrator in the Department of French & Italian at Indiana University-Bloomington. First elected in 2007, Isabel served one term (2008-11) on the City Council, sat out a term due to family obligations (2012-15), and was elected again in 2015 and in 2019. She lives in the McDoel Gardens neighborhood in a 1925 bungalow with her husband and two cats.
Isabel has been an active Council member, co-authoring several pieces of legislation and dozens of amendments to the drafts of the Bloomington Comprehensive Plan (adopted in 2018) and Unified Development Ordinance (adopted in early 2020). She has served on the Monroe County Solid Waste Management District Board (member of the Executive Committee for four years), the Monroe County Public Safety Local Income Tax Committee (one year as chair), the Council's Climate Action and Resilience Committee, the city’s Plan Commission, and the Jack Hopkins Social Service Funding Committee.
Isabel first became interested in Bloomington city government in 2002, when the city's Growth Policies Plan was being written. Along with other environmental activists, she urged the Plan Commission to emphasize biking, walking, and public transit as transportation modes and to protect green space in the city. Active in her community, she has served on the board of the South Central Community Action Program, on the IU-Bloomington Professional Staff Council (one year as president), and on the Bloomington Environmental Commission (one year as chair).
Isabel has been an active Council member, co-authoring several pieces of legislation and dozens of amendments to the drafts of the Bloomington Comprehensive Plan (adopted in 2018) and Unified Development Ordinance (adopted in early 2020). She has served on the Monroe County Solid Waste Management District Board (member of the Executive Committee for four years), the Monroe County Public Safety Local Income Tax Committee (one year as chair), the Council's Climate Action and Resilience Committee, the city’s Plan Commission, and the Jack Hopkins Social Service Funding Committee.
Isabel first became interested in Bloomington city government in 2002, when the city's Growth Policies Plan was being written. Along with other environmental activists, she urged the Plan Commission to emphasize biking, walking, and public transit as transportation modes and to protect green space in the city. Active in her community, she has served on the board of the South Central Community Action Program, on the IU-Bloomington Professional Staff Council (one year as president), and on the Bloomington Environmental Commission (one year as chair).
Piedmont-Smith for City Council
1108 S. Rogers St.
Bloomington, IN 47403
piedmontsmith4council@gmail.com
1108 S. Rogers St.
Bloomington, IN 47403
piedmontsmith4council@gmail.com
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