2018 Outstanding Student Achievement Award Winner- Jessalyn Garnett

Jessalynn Dee Garnett, from Jerome, Honors Bachelor of Science Degree Nursing, School of Nursing – Originally from Washington, Garnett spent her childhood hunting, fishing and enjoying the outdoors in southern Idaho.

She is a first-generation college graduate and the first to complete an Honors degree in the School of Nursing.

Her thesis is “Perpetrator Accountability, Propensity for Abuse and Aggression in a Male Sample Arrested for Domestic Violence in a Rural State.”

Garnett is eager to start in her career where in every shift is a testimony to the fact that every breath is a gift. She competed for two years on Idaho State University’s track and field team and currently serves as the vice president of her nursing class and as the student representative on the School of Nursing’s Undergraduate Committee.