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Voter Registration table at car show

PDF icon About the Bozeman League 

The Bozeman League of Women Voters works to encourage active and informed participation in government. The Bozeman League conducts candidate forums for local Montana Legislative seats, Gallatin County elected offices, Bozeman and Belgrade City Commission positions, and Bozeman and Belgrade school trustee positions.  We also produce a Voter Guide online at VOTE411.

Our Voter Registration Committee provides New Voter Bags to high school seniors at Bozeman, Gallatin, Belgrade, Three Forks, Lone Peak and Browning High Schools.  The New Voter Bags contain snacks and voter registration forms.  This project is very popular with teachers and students and many students complete the registration forms.  We also do Voter Registration at naturalization ceremonies in Butte and at public events around Bozeman and Belgrade.

The Bozeman League has an active Observer Corps.  Members attend and observe Gallatin County Commission meetings, Bozeman City Commission meetings and Bozeman School Board meetings.  Members then write articles about the meetings for the monthly Voter.

Aside from "election work" we look at and advocate for issues that members have studied and agreed upon. Many of our issues are the basis for fair and democratic government practices. The Bozeman positions on issues is here: PDF icon bozeman_positions.pdf

Click this link to see a History of the Bozeman League:  Brief History of Bozeman League

The Bozeman By-Laws are here: PDF icon 2025_bozeman_by-laws.pdf

Bozeman Meetings:

The Bozeman League meets at 11:45 on the second and fourth Monday of each month from September through May at Pilgrim Congregational Church, 2118 South Third Ave. Programs are typically on a local, state or national topics of concern to League members.  Recent programs have addressed changes in election laws, the constitutional right to privacy in Montana, and the need for inpatient mental health care services in Bozeman.

May and June Meetings:

May 12 - Pesentation by Susan Dana on "What Should We Do About the Electoral College?"  Susan holds her JD from Stanford Law School and is retired from the Jake Jabs College of Business and Entrepreneurship at M.S.U., where she served as a professor, an Associate Dean, and an Interim Dean. 
 
June 2 - tbd
 
Listen to the Sept. 10 Bill McKibben lecture here: https://kgvm.org/show/bill-mckibben-lecture/
 
 

Bozeman Board Members:

President: Jane Arntzen Schumacher
First Vice-President:  Gerrie Beck
Second Vice-President: Linda Gabel
Secretary: Suzanne McKiernan
Treasurer: Priscilla Dysart
Membership: Linda Gabel
Board Members:
    Pat Purvis, Noelle Orloff, Anne Christensen, Yvonne Rudman, Rosanne Nash, Red Audiss,
    Jan Benham, Faye Boom, Judy Mathre, Jan Young, Marilyn Tapia, Sally Maison

 

The Bozeman League Marched in the Sweet Pea Parade in 2024!

 parade photo

 

 Fall 2025 Municipal Elections

Candidate Forums:   

                      

 

 

 

Bozeman VOTE411 Voter Guide:

 

 

Please Join the Bozeman League! 

We meet at Pilgrim Congregational Church, 2118 South 3rd Avenue, Bozeman.   Members receive newsletters from LWVUS, LWVMT and LWV of the Bozeman Area.  When you join the Bozeman League, you automatically also join the Montana and National League of Women Voters.   

Dues are nominally $75 per person but you can pay any amount that is $20 or more.  To join online, go our Join the League page.

For more information, contact: Linda Gabel, Membership Director, bozemanlwv [at] gmail.com or P.O. Box 371, Bozeman, MT 59771.