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2025-26 Board

LWVSTL Board Members

Members elected a new board at the May 3 Annual Meeting. Julie Gaebe and Joan Hubbard now serve as co-presidents.

Volunteers

Volunteers register new citizens to vote

Special event at St. Louis Art Museum

Joan Hubbard, Mary Toy, Victoria Turner, Julie Gaebe, Jean Dugan and Kathleen Farrell accept award at the 40th Annual Bayer YMCA Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast.

LWVSTL Receives Servant Leader Award from Gateway YMCA

Joan Hubbard, Mary Toy, Victoria Turner, Julie Gaebe, Jean Dugan and Kathleen Farrell accept award at the 40th Annual Bayer YMCA Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast.

Volunteers package more than 10,000 guides for distribution

Voters Guides

Volunteers package more than 10,000 nonpartisan guides for distribution to area sites.

Voter registration team helping students at McCluer North High School

Registering Young Voters

Our voter registration teams worked at 302 events in 2024. 

 

SOS

Challenging HB1878

LWVMO and the Missouri NAACP filed lawsuits challenging several provisions of HB1878. 

Talking with Rep. Bill Lucas

Advocacy in Jefferson City

Members discuss rights restoration with Rep. Bill Lucas (R-115) at a Jan. 28 Voting Rights Legislative Day in Jefferson City.

Policing Study Group in League Office

Policing Equity

Members of the League's Policing Study Group.

Hearing

Speaking Out Against Anti-Voter Legislation

Asking legislators to make voting easier, not more difficult.

trainer explaining Voters Guide preparation

Preparing Nonpartisan Voters Guide

Volunteers learn how to gather information for nonpartisan voter guides about candidates and ballot measures.

4th

Marching for Voting Rights

Voting Rights Group in Webster Groves Parade on July 4

Marquette

Registering Youth Voters

Marquette High School's first Festival of Nations

CC

Encouraging Students to Vote

Volunteers at St. Louis Community College - Florissant Valley

Metro St. Louis

 

League of Women Voters mission and vision

 IMPORTANT MEMBER NOTICE ABOUT RENEWALS:

As most of you are aware by now, effective February 1, the League’s dues payment process nationwide shifted from billing and collecting at the local level to the national level.   Now that we have a few months of the process under our belts, we wanted to update members about how the process is affecting our League.  While we have seen a small increase in the number of people joining each month, so far, the biggest effect we have seen is a significant decrease in member renewals. At this point, we are unsure if this is due to the change in billing, in the perceived difficulty of paying through the new Chapter Spot portal, or other factors.

We ask that members be alert to emails from LWVUS. Your renewal notice emails will come from this email address: membership [at] lwv.org.   Please add this address to your contacts so that your email spam filter doesn’t intercept these emails. Also, if you have renewed recently, please tell us about your experience by emailing Angie and Cheri at membership [at] lwvstl.org or calling the League office at (314) 961-6869.

 

Fall Kickoff 2025 Flyer
Event Date: 
09/11/2025 - 5:30pm
Event location: 

Gloria Rodgers Pavilion - Tilles Park

Our League's annual fall kickoff will occur on September 11 at 5:30 p.m. at St. Louis County's Tilles Park. Meet League leaders and enjoy the company of other League members.

Retiring Executive Director Jean Dugan with New Director Sandy Richason
News

We welcome Sandra Richason as our new Executive Director, replacing the retiring Executive Director Jean Dugan. Sandra also serves as Executive Director of the Missouri League.

Tell the Senate "No" on the SAVE Act
News

The U.S. House has passed the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act to require citizenship documentation to register to vote.

Red stop sign with text about not accepting an abortion ban
Blog Post

The Metro St. Louis League of Women Voters Board has voted to endorse the Stop the Ban campaign that Abortion Action Missouri initiated. A current ballot proposal now seeks to repeat the reproductive freedom amendment that Missourians just passed in 2024.

Map of current Missouri congressional districts August 2025
Blog Post

No news to LWV members that democracy is under attack. We awaken every morning to an onslaught of calls to action which seem at times as though we are tilting at windmills.

New members and leaders at tables at Schafly Bottleworks
Blog Post

About 20 new members enjoyed the Meet'n'Greet at Schafly Bottleworks on July 28. The Membership Team and other League leaders joined in to help members connect with one another and with League activities.

Urban Heat Island Effect diagram
Blog Post

The severe loss of trees during the May 16th tornado did long-term damage to our region due to the “urban heat island effect.” Our Environmental Quality and Climate Change Committee explains.

Several of Metro's Call-A-Ride vans lined up
Blog Post

LWVSTL has adopted a position supporting local Paratransit for people with disabilities. This article debunks some of the common misconceptions about how this service works.

League registrar helping excited new citizen register to vote
Blog Post

Between May 24 and July 4, the Metro St. Louis League registered three voters at Juneteenth events, three people at Red Circle Food Pantry, 61 new voters at PrideFest, and 237 new citizens at naturalization ceremonies.

Get Out the Vote Committee Members in Animated Conversation
Blog Post

As threats to democracy grow and key elections approach, the League of Women Voters of Metro St. Louis is ramping up efforts to engage voters who are often left out of the conversation. The Get Out the Vote committee has decided on its 2025 outreach strategy.

Vote
News

This month the League of Women Voters of the United States collaborated with others to file a lawsuit challenging several provisions of Executive Order 14248, which asserts certain requirements for federal elections.

Defend the raise and the days
News

In 2024 the League supported Prop A for healthy families and it was supported by 57 percent of voters in November. The proposition included mandatory sick leave and an increase in the minimum wage.

Unite and Rise 8.5 Graphic
Blog Post

The League of Women Voters of the United States has declared that we are in a constitutional crisis, and in response launched an initiative called Rise and Unite 8.5 on May 1.