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Leadership
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SUE LYNCH
OF WISCONSIN NFRW PRESIDENT
Adviser,
NFRW Leadership Development Committee
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Sue Lynch of Wisconsin was elected NFRW President at the 35th
Biennial Convention in Orlando, Fla., and assumed the position in
January 2010.
Lynch also has held the positions of 1st, 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 Soviet Union.
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 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 and reside
in Onalaska, Wis.
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