Gail Combs Oglesby was born and raised in the western Detroit suburbs and lived for many years in California, and Texas. She now calls the suburbs north-west of Nashville her retirement home which she shares with her husband and fur kids.

She earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of San Francisco in Human Resources, as well as a Doctorate in Business Administration from California Coast University.

For over thirty-five years she worked in leadership roles in Human Resources and from that experience published “HR Confidential: An Insider’s Guide to Finding and Getting a Great Job.”

When not working, the passion that has obsessed her for the last fifty years has been genealogy. Originally the goal was to solve a family mystery, which took nearly forty-years to uncover. Today, access to online databases and DNA has helped her, and thousands of others to make those connections to the past and Gail can often be found helping others with their search.

Through that work she developed a deep admiration for what our ancestors, especially the women, have endured so that we could be here today. It is now her mission to bring their experiences to life through her writing and to celebrate the ordinary women whose accomplishments were anything but ordinary. Her debut novel is available now on Amazon.