Leadership

SUE LYNCH OF WISCONSIN NFRW 1st VICE PRESIDENT Director, REGION 1 ALASKA | CALIFORNIA | HAWAII | OREGON | WASHINGTON Adviser, NFRW Leadership Development Committee  LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PAGE Adviser, NFRW Special Events Committee E-mail:

Sue Lynch was elected NFRW 1st vice president at the 34th Biennial Convention in Palm Springs and assumed the position in January 2008.

Lynch also has held the positions of 2nd and 3rd vice presidents, member-at-large and chairman of the Nominating Committee in 1999. At the state level, Lynch served as president of the Wisconsin FRW from 1997-2001 and as president of two local clubs.

A former chief of staff and office manager to three members of Congress, Lynch has been active in Republican politics for more than 30 years and has served on several gubernatorial and presidential campaigns. During the Reagan administration, she served as staff assistant to Secretary of Agriculture John Block and confidential assistant to the administrator of Food and Nutrition Services in the Department of Agriculture. For 12 years, she worked for the Free Congress Foundation teaching campaign schools and doing field work for campaigns. In 1992, she lectured on the U.S. legislative branch for the Krieble Institute throughout the U.S.S.R.

Lynch's community activities include serving as president of Franciscan Skemp Auxiliary-Mayo Health System, state public policy chairman for Partners of Wisconsin Hospital Association, committee on Volunteer's Board Member for the American Hospital Association (2007-2009), volunteer for the American Cancer Society, and member of several community boards in the La Crosse area.

In 2007, she was named Grassroots Volunteer of the Year for the Mid Western Division, as well as outstanding volunteer of the West Salem Village People in 2007 for securing a building for her local Boys and Girls Club. Also, she was selected as one of the Most Influential Women of the Coulee Region in 2006, received the Caring for America Award for Community Service in 2001 and was honored by her local Republican Party in 2000. Lynch and her husband have two daughters.