MTADA Office Staff, Board Of Directors, Executive Committee And Insurance Trust

2025 Pub. 5 Issue 1

MTADA Office Staff, Board Of Directors, Executive Committee And Insurance Trust

July 28, 2025

By the Montana Auto Dealers Association

MTADA Office Staff

Bruce Knudsen
Executive Vice President
bknudsen@mtada.com
Cell: (406) 461-7680
Office: (406) 442-1233

Bruce Knudsen is the executive vice president, Government Relations for the Montana Auto Dealers Association (MTADA). He earned a BA in Japanese language and literature from Brigham Young University and an MBA from Regis University. Bruce has led MTADA since 2014 and has years of experience in managing large groups and organizations, as well as a deep knowledge of health insurance and employee benefits.

Bruce has lived in Montana for 16 years. He has four children and six grandchildren. In his free time, he enjoys golf, cooking, attending concerts and traveling, especially to the beaches of Baja, Mexico.

Jillian March
Communications Manager
jmarch@mtada.com
Cell: (253) 561-2889
Office: (406) 442-1233

Jillian March graduated from Carroll College in 2019. She started her career with the Montana Auto Dealers Association as an intern from 2018-20. She left for two years and then returned to the association as the communications manager a week before the annual convention in 2022.

Jillian has two dogs, a lab/wirehair pointer and a corgi. One of them loves bird hunting and the other loves chasing a laser pointer. Jillian loves hunting, shopping, wakesurfing and spending time at her dad’s house in the middle of nowhere Georgia.

Debbie Jean
Office Manager/Insurance Coordinator/Bookkeeper
bkkpr@mtada.com
Cell: (406) 461-6333
Office: (406) 442-1233

Debbie Jean was born and raised in Helena, Montana, and has resided there her entire life. Her favorite thing to do is spend time with her beautiful grandchildren, hang out with her husband and family at their cabin and ride snowmobiles and side by sides.

She has been the office manager at Montana Auto Dealers Association for 11 years and manages the self-funded Health Insurance Trust for the member auto dealers’ staff. Debbie’s prior work experience for the last 30 years has been in agency insurance work and self-funded insurance trusts.

She takes pride in her organizational and customer service skills by being able to put herself in the customer’s position — if a dealer or HR staff calls or emails her, she knows they want an answer now, not tomorrow or the next day or week, so she tries to respond ASAP.