Rebecca Greenhaw, Chair
After teaching Spanish at Oklahoma Christian University, University of Central Oklahoma, and OU, Rebecca left the teaching profession and began a new career in Financial Services at ChappelWood Financial Services. She then worked at Cambridge Financial Services and retired from the Trust and Investment Department of BancFirst in August of 2017.
Although she has only been a member of the League of Women Voters since 2013, Rebecca has known of and admired the organization all her life. Her mother was an activist who worked with Milton Eisenhower to help establish UNESCO. Rebecca had begun trying to find the League in 2009. She met with Sheila Swearingen when she held meetings in OKC. In October of 2017, Sheila approached her about the possibility of my helping to get the League of Women Voters of Oklahoma County (LWVOKC) group up and running again. She agreed to a two-year term as Chairperson of the LWVOKC rebuilding effort. Her first year ended in December, 2018.
Rebecca has experience with founding and leading groups, such as a La Leche League support group for nursing mothers, which she and a friend started in Edmond in the 1970's. Rebecca worked in that capacity for 15 years. And in the early 1980's, she and her husband were part of a group that started an open-fellowship church in Edmond, which still exits.
Since beginning the rebuilding process, Rebecca as acting Chair, has helped to organized LWVOKC support and participation in parades, rallies, and state-wide advocacy events, as well as engagement in voter education and registration activities around Oklahoma City. She also helped to organize and track distribution of over 10,000 Oklahoma Voter Guides in and around OKC. She attended the LWV National Conference in Chicago this year. And she served as a leading member of the committee that organized LWVOKCâs inaugural event, â100 Years: Women Building a More Perfect Democracyâ improved our membership, visibility and sustainability, thanks to many wonderful and very supportive sponsors.
During her term as Chair, Rebecca hopes to continue representing LWVOKC in the community and to develop relationships with other groups that share similar goals. However, her principal goals for her term as Chair are to leave the group with a defined structure and leadership and a plan for a sustainable revenue stream.
Rhonda McLean, Secretary
Rhonda served for one year as the regional scholarship chair and for three years as the local scholarship chair for Mensa. Prior to Cheryl Husmann, she served three years as Co-Administrator for the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Inn of Court. She also served two years as the legislative watch person for the Title Examination Standards Committee, which is an arm of the Real Property Section of the Oklahoma Bar Association.
Rhondaâs current community service includes the following:
-Officer of the Oklahoma City Real Property Lawyers Association
-President of the Rose State Alumni Association
-At Large Board Member for the Real Estate Section of the Oklahoma Bar Association
-Oklahoma League of Women Voters representative on the Board of Trustees of the League of Women Voters of Oklahoma
-Weekly volunteer for WildCare Foundation
-Editor of the Oklahoma Bar Association Title Examination Standards Committee
-Service on the following Committees: National Mentoring Committee for the American Inns of Court and the Legislative Committee of the Oklahoma Bar Association.
Rhonda was one of the people in attendance at the first meeting of the OKCLWV rebuilding group in March of 2018. She has worked closely with Rebecca Greenhaw, Jan Largent, and representatives from US LWV in determining the requirements and gathering the information to complete the necessary paperwork for the MAL unit to be recognized as a Local League.
Rhondaâs interest in the League of Women Voters is based on its non-partisan positions and its dedication to educating and registering voters.
Cheryl Husmann, Treasurer
Cheryl Husmann is from Harrah, Oklahoma. She is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma where she received a B.S. in Microbiology. During her undergraduate studies, she performed independent research projects and managed the laboratory of a Principle Investigator in the Botany and Microbiology Department. After graduating from OU, she went on to manage intellectual property at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation from 1997-2009. In 2004, she was admitted to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office as a Patent Agent.
While maintaining a full-time career in intellectual property management and raising a family, Cheryl attended the Oklahoma City University School of Law where she graduated cum laude in 2008.
Cheryl is actively involved in civic organizations focused on the prevention of child abuse, such as the Downtown Exchange Club of Oklahoma City where she serves as a member of their board and is a graduate of Leadership Edmond. Cheryl is the proud mother of one daughter, two stepdaughters, five grandchildren, and she has been a military spouse for over twenty five years.
Cheryl works with individuals, families and businesses in the areas of estate planning, probate, estate administration, business planning, general business counsel, trademarks, copyrights, guardianships, and adoptions. Cheryl is an active member of WealthCounsel, a national community of top estate planning and business planning professionals committed to the highest standard of practice excellence.
