The incoming president of the B.C. Teachers' Federation is the daughter of a Quesnel pulp mill worker who knew what it was like to walk a picket line.

Teri Mooring became a teacher in 1988, but not before spending some of her younger years working part-time in the same plant as her dad, who was also a union president.

It was announced at today's BCTF annual general meeting that Mooring, the union's first vice president, will succeed the outgoing BCTF president Glen Hansman on July 1.

Mooring is a former president of the Quesnel District Teachers' Association and taught Grades 6 and 7 for 20 years.

One of her goals is to elevate pubic awareness about the inequalities faced by schools in smaller towns and remote areas.

Coincidentally, the next union first vice president, Clint Johnston, has blue-collar experience, working in the past as a welder's helper on pipelines.

The Chilliwack educator also worked in a sawmill where he lost his left hand in an industrial accident.

“Losing my hand made me examine my whole life, and life itself," Johnston told Teacher Magazine in 2016. "Change was forced upon me and I had to find other work.”

The incoming second vice president of the B.C. Teachers' Federation is Carole Gordon, who's from Kelowna.

Hansman is a Vancouver elementary school teacher who's been the BCTF president for three one-year terms, which is the maximum allowable length in this position.