What skills do you most revere in a public servant???

[Mercenary]

The most important things would be honesty, selflessness, and intelligence.

Since you cannot really know any of those traits to well I suppose what I would be most impressed with would probably be something like significant volunteer experience that continued throughout their life and wasnt just to get into college or find themself.

As for professions probably things like teacher, historian, scientist, etc.

Our leaders have typically been mostly legislative types with some businessmen and military types thrown in. None have really impressed me to be honest. And things people cannot control like being born in a poor home or being a minority would have absolutely zero impsct on my vote.

That all said, from your provided list my choices woild be.

Civil service > Scientist > Vet > Stay at home parent.