Janice Hoke, native of Springfield, Missouri and daughter of a physician who served in the U.S. Public Health Service spent her childhood in Virginia, Florida, Texas and the Phillippines. She obtained a B.A. in French at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, GA and a M.A.T. at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. Janice moved to Reno with her husband in 1976. She was first introduced to NWHP while working as an editor/reporter for the Reno Gazette-Journal.