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Martha Hales Ball taught Social Studies for twenty-six years. She currently is the Director of the Utah 3Rs Project. It is a national program designed to train teachers about the importance of the Religious Liberty Clauses of the First Amendment. She conducts workshops all over the state of Utah teaching these principles.

Ms. Ball graduated magna cum laude from the University of Utah with a Bachelor of Science in History and secondary education and a Master's degree in Educational Studies. At the time of graduation she was selected to be a member of Phi Kappa Phi, Beehive Honor Society and participate in the Experiment in International Living, Poland. She received a Hays Fulbright Award to study in India and two National Endowments for the Humanities Awards. One was in Greece and the other at the National humanities Center In North Carolina.

In 2000 she was chosen the outstanding teacher of United States History in the nation by the Daughters of the American Revolution, Washington D.C.