Dotty Huber is a member of a fifth generation Woodland family. Her great-grandparents and relatives came to Woodland in the early 1890s, establishing homes and businesses in Woodland, including Dahler Grocery, the Woodland Exchange Telephone & Telegraph, and the Electric Garage Company.
The daughter of Lonny and Betty Pritchard, Dotty attended Holy Rosary Elementary, Douglas Jr. High, and Woodland High School. She was also one of the first eleven students to attend Woodland Christian School when it opened in 1974. A stellar student, Dotty graduated Summa Cum Laude from California State University, Sacramento, receiving degrees in accounting, Latin, and English. While at Sac State she was a member of the editorial writing staff of Sac State Magazine and worked as the Latin staff tutor for the Department of Foreign Languages. Dotty's special focuses in school were literature, languages, and classical theory, studying over the years Greek, Latin, French, Italian, Sign, and Spanish. Her graduate thesis has been used at CSUS as a supplemental text for English students of Aristotelian literary theory and criticism.
Professionally, Dotty has been a professor of English and Latin since 1996, beginning her teaching career at CSUS and later becoming part of Woodland Community College’s adjunct-faculty where she taught critical thinking and argument. In order to stay at home with her new-born daughter, Dotty left WCC in 2004 to work part-time as a home-school educator, providing lessons in composition, rhetoric, British and American literature, as well as all levels of Latin. In addition to her teaching career, Dotty was a community business owner of a full service accounting and bookkeeping firm, Accounting Advantages, from 1986 to 1999.
In the same year she sold her business, Dotty embarked on one of her most rewarding experiences as the co-author of a modern English edition of John Barclay’s 1625 masterpiece, the Argenis. Published by MRST and Van Gorcum in 2003, this mammoth, 2 volume Latin text, with facing–page English translation, was a four-year labor of love with collaborator Professor Mark Riley, former Chairman of CSUS Foreign Languages Department. Their novel has been critically acclaimed and internationally recognized as an invaluable service to Neo-Latin scholarship.
In Woodland, Dotty, along with her husband, Bob, co-founded Woodlanders for Responsible Government (WRG), a non-activist, not-partisan community organization made up of a broad base of Yolo County citizens who are interested in becoming more informed about public issues and local government. Dotty is also a producer, volunteer, and board member of WAVE, Woodland’s public access television station.
Dotty and Bob, along with their three children live in Woodland’s historical area where they have been restoring her paternal family’s Art Deco home, known to long-time Woodlanders as the “boat-house.” Bob owns a media firm specializing in political website design, and audio/visual productions.