Board Members for 2025-26
2025-26 Co-President Judith Crown
2025-26 Co-President Beverly Tuck
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2026 LWV OPRF Board
Board Officers: Co-Presidents: Judith Crown 2025-2027 Beverly Tuck 2025-2027 Vice Presidents: Tina Birnbaum 2026-2027 Penny Wallingford 2025-2027 Treasurer: Edward White 2026-2028 Secretary: Mary Ann Porucznik 2025-2027 Directors: Ann Courter 2025-2027 Mary Chris Jaklevic 2026-2028 Pat Johnson 2025-2027 Belinda Lutz-Hamel 2026-2028 Marilyn Pearson 2025-2027 Jo-Ella Podagrosi Spratt 2026-2028 Suzanne Poisl (at large) 2026-2027 |
Who We Are |
The League of Women Voters of Oak Park and River Forest, a non-partisan political organization, encourages the informed and active participation of citizens in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues and influences public policy through citizen education and advocacy. We present unbiased non-partisan information about elections, the voting process, and issues through our Voter Service activities. And after we study an issue, we use our positions to advocate for or against particular policies in the public interest through our Advocacy activities.
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Our History |
When women cast their first votes in 1920, the League was there to provide accurate, unbiased election information. The League of Women Voters of the United States was founded at the Congress Hotel in Chicago on February 14, 1920, in anticipation of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which extended to women the right to vote.
The Illinois League was organized that same year and the League of Women Voters of Oak Park and River Forest just four years later, at the Oak Park Arms Hotel on May 13, 1924. |