Donna Ward  is a trained League moderator and is serving as Vice-President and Chair of Voter Services and for the LWV of the Montclair Area. She is experienced in all aspects of voter services from running candidates forums, speakers meetings and various voter education events.

Donna also serves on the boards of a number of New Jersey non-profits servicing children in foster care, and college preparatory for disadvantaged teens.

She retired happily in 2018 after a 35 year career in global brand marketing, working for consumer packaged goods companies like Bayer, Procter and Gamble, Eastman Kodak and American Cyanamid.

Susan is currently the Connection Committee Chair in the League of Women Voters of the Montclair Area and enjoys getting to know all the members, new and long term members as she continues to get members actively involved in the League. 

She joined the League in early 2017 and quickly became the Voter Registration Chair. In 2020, she was able to successfully recruit a co-chair and together they covered voter registration throughout Essex County via the Town Team platform. The co-chairs along with the Town Teams held over 101 voter registration events (even with covid) and completed 672 voter registration forms in 2020. 

She is committed to the League’s mission of Empowering Voters and Defending Democracy along with the League’s non partisan and grass roots ideals. Her first career was in finance for 23 years and then she was in social work where she worked with foster children and later children with mental health and developmental disabilities for eleven years. 

I am a mom of two beautiful children in high school with one going off to college this Fall. 

I serve on a number of committees in my town as well as with the Verona C.H.I.L.D. Organization for children with learning differences. This past year I was nominated to serve a two year term on the Verona NTSC (National Transportation & Safety) Committee.

I am an active financial member of the Montclair Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. I serve as the Fundraising Chair, as well as on a number of committees with our community initiatives centered around the Five-Point Programmatic Thrust.

Kathy Keegan RN BC BSN MAT

Rutgers Newark BSN

NJCU School Nurse Certification

Seton Hall University MAT

Lives In Cedar Grove with husband Michael, where I was active in scouts and my church. Mom of 2 and Grandma of 3

I had a 41 year nursing career working in local hospitals before retiring 2018 from Seton Hall University after serving an university nurse.

I became a poll worker and joined the League of Women Voters when I retired, working with Voter Registration and Youth Voter Services I am also a volunteer with Moms Demand Action and Be Smart for kids.

Voted at the age 18 over just 50 yrs ago, voting ever since.

Jo Anne Jedd has lived in the Montclair area for 36 years and raised three children here who all graduated from Montclair High School.

After graduating from NYU Stern School of Business with an MBA, she spent her career in financial services, working in business development at American Express, JP Morgan Chase and Mastercard.

Retired since 2020, Jo has taken on the role of Chair of Voter Registration and Engagement and joined the board in 2022.

Wendy McNeil is known for being a creative, strong, yet collaborative leader with knowledge of all phases of non-profit management and fundraising. During the course of her career, Wendy has raised over $60 million in major, annual, capital, and planned-gifts.

She loves her community of Montclair where she has lived for over 35 years. She serves on the Montclair Housing Commission and on the Board of Integrity House. As the chair of the Unitarian Universalists Congregation at Montclair’s Undoing Racism Education Team, Wendy has curated and led discussions on powerful women of color, reparations, and Reproductive Justice, among other topics. 

In her spare time, Wendy loves to travel, view, talk, and write about movies, read, go for power walks with her very active small dog, and spend time with her family and friends.