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2009 NATIONAL COALITION OF

EXCELLENCE IN PUBLIC SERVICE SERIES POLITICAL LEADERSHIP PROGRAMS

 

1990-2009 Total Graduates:  1569             10% Minority Participation

National Coalition Chairman and Founder – Judy H. Singleton

Contact Information:  (317-797-2002) singlet@mindspring.com

Mailing Address:  7820 Holly Creek Lane, Indianapolis, IN 46240

1. INDIANA - The Richard G. Lugar Excellence in Public Service Series – First Class 1990

Executive Director:  Sandi Huddleston  (317-964-5005 C- 317-908-2926) srh317@gmail.com
President of Board: Tory Castor  (317-635-8900)  tcastor@haysmurraycaster.com
Founders:  Judy Singleton,
singlet@mindspring.com & Senator Teresa Lubbers, senlub@aol.com

Mailing Address:  47 South Meridian, Suite 200, Indianapolis, IN 46204
Website:  www.lugarseries.com   

Graduates:  325     C:  304        AA:  13            H:  7           Other:  1            (6% Minority)

Applications Due:  August 1        Program Year:  October- June



2. ILLINOIS - The Illinois Lincoln Series – First Class 1995

Executive Director:  JoEllen Ridder, ed@lincolnseries.com
President:  Pam Fenner, pfenner@fennertech.com

National Liaison(s):  Katherine Coyle and Carol Donovan

Founder:   Mary Jo Arndt (630-627-6307) maryjoanrndt@att.net

Mailing Address:  1172 Cactus Trail, Carol Stream, IL 60188
Website: www.lincolnseries.com  

Graduates:  169     C: 154        AA:  6            H:  4            Other:  5            (9% Minority)

Applications Due:  November 1            Program Year:  January-October 


 3.  NEW JERSEY - The Christine Todd Whitman Series – Founded 1998

Executive Director:  Loredana Cromarty (609-397-1004 or C-609-577-2907) lcromarty@comcast.net

President of Board: Janice Mintz, Esq.  jenmintz@verizon.net

Founders:  Candy Straight (973-338-9683) Straightcl@aol.com;

Nancy Becker (609-394-7477) nancybecker12@comcast.net; Barbara Sobel

Mailing Address:  P.O. Box 209, Lambertville, NJ 08530

Website:  www.whitmanseries.org

Graduates:  171         C:  147        AA:  10         H:  8           Other: 6             (14% Minority)

Applications Due:  August 1        Program Year:  October-June 


4.  OHIO - The Jo Ann Davidson Ohio Leadership Institute – First Class 2000

Executive Director:  Carol Porter (614-444-7340) cporter1@columbus.rr.com 

Chairman of Board:  Betty Montgomery, (614-466-4483) agbdm@aol.com

Founder and contact:  Jo Ann Davidson (614-224-0777 or 614-203-0308) jadavidson@ameritech.net 

Mailing Address:  37 West Broad Street, Ste 970, Columbus, Ohio 43215

Website:  www.adleadershipinstitute.com

Graduates:  139           C: 120         AA:  14            H:  5             Other:        (14% Minority)

Applications Due:  June 30     Program Year:  September – May 


5.  PENNSYLVANIA - The Anne B. Anstine Series – First Class 2002

Executive Director:  Bernadette S. Comfort  (724-463-5110 or 412-389-9201) comfortb@ptd.net

Founder & President of Board:  Christine J. Toretti (724-349-6800) pumphill@aol.com

Mailing Address:  57 S. Ninth Street, Indiana, Pennsylvania 15701

Website:  www.pagop4women.org

Graduates:  123            C:  113        AA:  9            H:  1           Other: 0          (8% Minority)

Application Due Date:  June 1  Program Year:  September – June


6.  KENTUCKY – Kentucky Republican Women’s Roundtable – First Class 2002

Board President & Contact: Gail Russell (502-589-4440) grussell@gsatty.com

Founder:  Cathy Bailey (502-893-6689) cathyb919@aol.com

Mailing Address: 108 Blankenbaker Lane, Louisville, Kentucky 40207

Website:  None

Graduates:  131           C:  119        AA:  7            H:  3           Other: 2             (9% Minority)

Application Due:  April 1            Program Year: 


7.  NEW HAMPSHIRE – The Vesta Roy Series – First Class 2003

Board Chairman and Contact: Abigail Sykas (603-617-3522) asykas@sykaslaw.com

Founders: Nancy Merrill (603-448-2274) nmerrill1@yahoo.com and

Wendy Jones (603-397-5092 or 603-770-9447) Sw64me@comcast.net

Mailing Address:  9 Garrison Road, Salem, New Hampshire 03079

Website:  www.vestaroyseries.com

Graduates:  50             C:  48           AA:  1             H:  1           Other: 0           (4% Minority)

Applications Due:  June 30       Program Year:  September – June


 8.  CALIFORNIA – The Marian Bergeson Series – First Class 2004

      Executive Director & Contact:  Ann Rommel (949 351-4494) rommels@cox.net

Vice President, Curriculum Development and Contact:  Jamime Huff,  Jaime.Huff@edisonintl.com

Founders:  Emmy Day, (949-770-1235 or 949-338-0863) emmyday@cox.net and

Kate Keena (949-455-4600) kate@keenathomas.com 

President of Board:  Julie Soderlund (916-996-6116) jsoderlund@wilsonmillercom.com

Website:  www.thebergesonseries.com

Mailing Address: 8 Fresian, Coto De Caza 92679

Graduates:  60             C:  47        AA: 1          H: 10           Other: 2             (22% Minority)

Applications Due:  October 1    Program Year:  January –September 


9.    DELAWARE – The First State Series – First Class 2004

Co-Executive Directors: Martha Sturtevant oceantulip@msn.com and Kim Hoey  khoey@aol.com 

Co-Founder:  Elizabeth Roche (302-478-6967, C-302-521-8789) eroche123@verizon.net

Co-Founders:  Kia Evans and Paula Fontello

President of Board:  Michele Rollins, dotharrison@rosehall.com 

Mailing Address:  P.O. Box 7891, Wilmington, DE 19803

Website:  www.firststateseries.com

Graduates:  37            C:  34           AA: 2             H:              Other: 1             (8% Minority)

Application Due: September 1  Program Year:  October-May


10. NEBRASKA – The Anne Batchelder Series – First Class 2004

President of Board and Contact: Judy Glassburner (402-759-4506) negopgal@windstream.net

Co-Founders:  Pat Dorwart (308-254-4333) psdthd@msn.com

Amy Bracht (402-707-3774) aebracht@yahoo.com  Vicki Powell  vicfpow@yahoo.com

Mailing Address:  P.O.Box 404, Geneva, NE 68361

Website:  www.annebatchelder.com

Public E-mail: wwomem@annebatchelder.com

Graduates:  30            C:  30           AA: 0            H:  0           Other:  0            (0% minority)

Application Due:  August 15                                                       Program Year:  October-May 


11. SOUTH CAROLINA – The South Carolina Winning Women’s Series – First Class 2004

Executive Director:  Eaddy Roe Willard (803-695-1340, C-803-446-3105) eroe@bellsouth.net

Founder:  Cindy Costa, (843-367-5904) cynthiacostarnc@hotmail.com

Mailing Address:  247 Calhoun Street, Charleston, SC 29412

Website:  www.scwinningwomen.com

Graduates:  42+           C:  36         AA: 4+1         H: 2           Other: 0             (14% minority)

Applications Due:  June 30       Program Year:  September- May  


12. ALASKA – The Alaska Series- First Class 2005

Board President and Contact:  Felice Huskins, feliceh@CellularOne.blackberry.net;

Board Vice President, Susan Denison sdenison@gci.net

Founder:  Gloria Shriver, (907-223-0223 fax- 907-222-7531) gshriver@gci.net

Mailing Address:  1515 W. 13th Avenue, Anchorage, AK 99501

Website:  None

Graduates:  12        C:  9        AA:  1         H:  1        Other: 1 - Eskimos         (25% Minority)

Application Due:  September 30      Program Year:  October - May 


13. FLORIDA – The Tillie Fowler Series – First Class 2005

Executive Director:  Judy Arranz, (904-221-5253  C-904-982-3524)  GREEKWZ@comcast.net

Co-Founder and President:  Judith Albertelli, (904-268-6698) judithgop@bellsouth.net

Co-Founder:  Carole Jean Jordan, (850-222-7920) jordancj2@aol.com

Mailing Address: 1834 Spiceberry Circle East, Jacksonville, Fl. 32246

Website:  www.fowlerseries.com

Graduates:  20            C:  19        AA:  0             H: 1            Other:  0            (5% Minority)

Applications Due:  August 1             Program Year:  October - June 


14. VIRGINIA – The Jennifer Byler Series – First Class 2005

Program Director: Tina McCarther (804-780-0111) tmcarthur@rpv.org

Co-Chairs of Board: Kate Obenshain, Kateobenshain@comcast.net and Marty Kilgore

martykilgore@comcast.net

Other Co-Founders: Anne Petera, Congresswoman Jo Ann Davis, Congresswoman Thelma Drake,

Susan Allen, Roxane Gilmore, VA Senator Jeannemarie Devolites Davis, Del. Kathy Byron,

Del. Michele McQuigg, Del. Melanie Rapp, Del. Beverly Sherwood and Del. Terrie Suit.

Mailing Address:  115 East Grace Street, Richmond, VA 23219-1741

Website: www.rpv.org/jbi

Graduates:   85           C:  72          AA: 6          H:  4             Other: 3          (15% Minority)

Applications Due:  January 5           Program Year:  February-September 


15. TENNESSEE – The Volunteer State Series – First Class 2005

Co-Founder and Contact:  Robin Smith, (423-843-1556) thesmithsgroup@bellsouth.net   

Co-Founder:  Kelly Conley, (865-523-1944, X 3102) kconley@regalcorp.com

Mailing Address: 

Website:  None

Graduates:  9              C: 7          AA:  0            H:  0         Other: 2             (22% Minority)

Applications Due:                      Program Year:  February-August


16. NEVADA – The Silver State Series-First Class 2005

Executive Director and Contact:  Monica Moradkhan, (702-336-6849  O775-684-8515)

monica@nvgopassembly.com

Founder and Contact:  Beverly Willard, (775-267-4300, C-775-790-5511) beverlywillard@charter.net

Mailing Address:  400 Bavarian Drive, Carson City, NV 89705-7008

Website:  None  

Graduates:  21         C:  18         AA:  0            H:  1          Other: 2             (14% Minority)

Applications Due:  February 1       Program Year:  March - June 


17. KANSAS – The Dwight D. Eisenhower Series-First Class 2006

Co-Founder & Contact: Amanda Adkins (816-201-7022 or C -913-669-7916)

Amanda.Adkins@cerner.com

Co-Founder:  Kari Bruffett (913-588-3174) kbruffett@everstkc.net

President of Board:  Emily Wellman, Emily_Wellman@roberts.senate.gov

Past President:Susan Pompeo (C-316-641-3966) spompeo@cox.net

Mailing Address:  4702 W. 159th Terrace, Overland Park, KS 66085

Website:  www.theeisenhowerseries.org 

Graduates:  85           C:  76       AA:  6            H:  1          Other: 2             (10% Minority)

Applications Due:                      Program Year:  January - June


18. ARIZONA – The Dodie Londen Series-  First Class 2007

Executive Director:  Bernadette S. Comfort  (520-609-6347 or 412-389-9201)

comfortb@ptd.net

Founder & President of Board:  Christine J. Toretti (724-349-6800) pumphill@aol.com

Mailing Address:  57 S. Ninth Street, Indiana, Pennsylvania 15701

Website: http://www.azgop4women.org

Graduates: 26             C: 23            AA:  0            H:  0         Other: 3             (13% Minority)

Application Due Date:  May 1        Program Year:  October – May 


19. MINNESOTA – The Minnesota Series  First Class 2007

Founder and contact: Mary Igo, migo@mngastro.com

Mailing Address: 165 North Western Ave #210 St. Paul, MN 55102

Website: www.mnexcellenceseries.com

Graduates: 19             C: 19        AA:  0             H:  0             Other:  0            (0% Minority)

Application Due Date:  July 20      Program Year:  September-June


20. MICHIGAN – The Michigan Series  First Class 2007

Co-Founder & Contact:  Joan Jackson (231-386-5118) jjackson5321@freeway.net

Co-Founder: Susan Haley, (231-334-4794) skh52@msn.com

Mailing Address: 12211 E. Kinnikinic Road, Northport, Michigan 49670-9694

Website:  none

Graduates:  15            C:  15        AA:  0             H:  0             Other:  0            (0% Minority)

Application Due Date:                     Program Year: 


   
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