Per the organization Bylaws, the LWVDE membership (which includes all League members in Delaware) meet at Convention every two years to elect new leadership: a Board of Directors and a slate of Officers. The current Board is comprised of five officers and six directors, along with the three local League Presidents in Delaware, as listed below.
The county abbreviations listed after some of the names indicate as follows:
NCC => New Castle County, SC => Sussex County DE, KC => Kent County DE.
The LWVDE Board of Directors 2025-2027
(effective July 1, 2025)
Officers
- President: Tiffany Geyer Lydon (NCC)
- 1st Vice President: Marjorie C. Johnson (NCC)
- 2nd Vice President: Linda Barnett (NCC)
- Treasurer: Pat Newcomb (SC)
- Secretary: Ceil Tilney (NCC)
Directors
- Tabitha Bendel (NCC)
- Kathi Donegan (NCC)
- Fern Goodhart (SC)
- Jill Itzkowitz (NCC)
- Gwendolyn Miller (SC)
- Dr. Marlene Saunders (SC)
Local League Presidents:
- Kent County: Chandra Owens
- New Castle County: Richard Johnson
- Sussex County: Barbara Hedges-Goettl
Off-Board Committees
Nominating Committee 2027
- (vacant), Chair
- Patti Christopher (NCC)
- Phyllis Edamatsu (SC)
LWVDE DEI Committee - Chair Gwendolyn Miller
An invitation to join our newly re-formed Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee went out to the membership in July 2025.
Advocacy Corps - Chair Linda Barnett
The current leaders for each of the LWVDE Advocacy areas can be found here: Advocacy Corps Portfolios
- Climate Change/Energy
- Criminal Justice
- Education
- Elections and Voting
- Government/Redistricting/Finance/Taxation
- Health Care
- Housing
- Land Use / Transportation
- Money in Politics
- Natural Resources
- Reproductive Choice
- Social Policy
