Elected Directors:

Lisa Ratner, President & Advocacy Chair

Liz Kniss, 1^st Vice President

Hannah Lu, 2^nd Vice President & Voter Services Chair

tbd, Secretary

Sunny Dykwel, Membership

Nancy Bell, Roster Manager

Mary Nemerov, Fundraising Chair

 

Appointed Directors:

Nancy Shepherd, Parliamentarian

Laura Bajuk, Communications

Steve Levy, at large

Erika Buck, at large

Micheline Horstmeyer, at large   

Aline Yu, at large                         

 

Off-Board/Committee Chairs:

Budget Committee - Kathy Miller, Hannah Lu, Lisa Ratner

Campaign Finance Reform - Karen Kalinsky, Kathy Miller, Nancy Neff, Lisa Ratner

Gun Violence Prevention - Hilary Glann & Stacey Ashlund

Events - tbd

Housing & Transportation - Steve Levy

Natural Resources - Hilary Glann & Mary O'Kicki

Nominating Committee - Beth May, Erika Buck, Mary Nemerov

Social Media Intern - Karuna Mukkamalla

Webmaster, Voter & E-blasts - Laura Bajuk

We thank the generations of members who have led the LWVPA as president:

2026-27: Lisa Ratner

2025-26: Hannah Lu, Lisa Ratner
2024-25: Karen Kalinsky
2023-24: Nancy Shepherd, Judy Kleinberg 
2021-23: Liz Kniss
2020-21: Nancy Shepherd
2019-20: Terry Godfrey
2018-19: Aisha Piracha-Zakariya
2016-18: Bonnie Packer
2014-16: Ellen Forbes
2011-14: Mary Alice Thornton
2008-11: Phyllis Cassel
2006-08: Doris Petersen
2004-06: Veronica Tincher
2002-04: Sandy Eakins
2001-02: Diana Steeples, Nancy Olson, Doris Petersen
2000-01: Sigrid Pinsky
1999-00: Sally Probst
1998-99: Ruth Lacey, Doris Petersen
1997-98: Ruth Lacey, Geri Stewart
1996-97: Sally Probst, Irene Sampson
1994-96: Sally Probst
1992-94: Marilyn Bryant
1990-92: Virginia Bandura
1989-90: Karen Douglas
1987-89: Rosalie Dinkey
1986-87: Virginia Bandura
1985-86: Linda S. Ross
1983-85: Lynn Torin
1981-83: Irene Sampson
1979-81: Jane Goldstein
1978-79: Mary McClean Sinclair
1977-78: Joan Heymann 
1977: Laura Lundy
1975-77: Joan B. Johnston
1973-75: Helene (Lanie) S. Wheeler
1971-73: Joan Heymann
1969-71: Dorothy Reed
1967-69: Sylvia I. Seman
1965-67: Mary Catherine Cobbs
1963-65: Etta I. Meyers
1961-63: Francis H. Brenner
1959-61: Tinker G. Spar
1957-59: Crystal Gamage
1955-57: Elinor Heath
1954-55: Janet McClure Lyman
1954: Janet S. Finch
1953-54: Mrs. Arthur Starr
1951-53: Anna Rose Taylor
1950-51: Charmien Moreno
1948-50: Mildred Corcoran
1947-48: Charlotte Irvine
1946-47: Opal Ralston
1945-46: Martha Linder
1944-45: Margaret Conner
1943-44: Francis Schultz
1941-43: Mary Darling
1940-41: Dena Taft
1939-40: Carroll Morrison
1938-39: Mrs. J. C. Whitman