Tuire Okkola

Finland

Tuire Okkola has experience as a breeder, handler, dog club official and judge. She is a long-time breeder of Staffordshire Bull Terriers and Smooth Fox Terriers. She started already very young and had SBTs since 1965 and breeding Staffords together with her mother under prefix Jaramillos (1979-2006) over 50 International Champions. Later she continued alone under prefix Rennam (2007-). She is at the moment the President of The Finnish Terrier Organisation and was before that 25 years the President of The Finnish Staffordshire Bull Terrier Club and has been board member in many other breed clubs as well. She has been awarded the Golden medal of Finnish Kennel Club 2004.
She became a Staffordshire bull terrier judge in 1999 and qualified to judge all breeds 2016. She has had the pleasure besides Finland to judge in Europe, South-Africa, China and Australia.