Meet David R. Gillie

Candidate for Cache County Clerk

The first American citizen in my family, I am passionately committed to our ever doubtful, ever hopeful, American Endeavor:  to secure FREEDOM under LAW with and among our families, neighbors, and fellow citizens.  I have devoted significant portions of my life to this noble endeavor, as an enlisted Sailor, as a Navy Officer, and as a professor and lecturer. By my candidacy to become your next County Clerk, I seek to make another contribution to this endeavor, this time in a sphere closer to home.

I enlisted in the United States Navy in 1989. Along the way, I earned an officer's commission. I retired a Commander after 30 years’ service. My service enabled me to make contributions to the American Endeavor of which I could scarcely have dreamed:  I served as a diplomatic interpreter, inspected strategic submarine bases of the former Soviet Union and Russian Federation, directed Signals Intelligence and Information Operations at sea and ashore, conducted advanced research and development projects (both in uniform and in connection with private contractors), helped to prepare significant war making and force development decisions on major Navy and Joint staffs, and led some of our Navy's finest Sailors as Officer in Charge, Executive Officer, and Commanding Officer.

From time to time across the years, alongside primary Navy duties, I have taught Intelligence and National Security at US Government civilian and military institutions, as well as at private universities, while occasionally lecturing on Foreign Affairs and American Civics in 10 States.

A widower with a second family, I am father to a son by my deceased wife, Amy Ellen Gillie. With my second wife, Lilian Gillie, I am adoptive father to a daughter and stepfather to three sons and three daughters.

Since retiring to Cache Valley four years ago, my Lilian and I love serving in Church, working our tiny Logan farm together, and playing with our six — soon to be seven — grandchildren.