ELECTED BOARD & COMMITTEES

OFFICERS
President:  Peggy Shahanan
Vice President: Mary Freimark
Secretary:  Marcia Springer
Financial Secretary: Margie Toner Thompson
Treasurer: Todd Sichel
Chaplain: Monsignor John Kelly Cody  

BOARD MEMBERS
Peggy Arnold
Karen Jones
Debbie Lynch
 
COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Charities: Cheryl Costello
Cultural: Colleen Collins, Kira Collins, Tracee Collins
Historian: Becky Ellis
Hospitality: Siobhan Burke Hawks, Tara Horsley Belcher
Membership:  Kelly Greene, Kerinan Jordan
Parliamentarian: Jean Winters
Publicity: Karen Fahy, Allie Springer, Erin Trueman
Sergeant-At-Arms: Peggy McCathran
Spiritual: Sandee Murphy
Traditions: Margie Hess

Junior Division: Kelly Baesmann, Beth Shelley

FOUNDING MEMBERS

Mary Margaret "Maggie" Grove
Mary Grady Strickland 

Our Charter Members
Helen Burwell*
Mary Sweetman Ferguson
Mary Daugherty Fowle*
Dorothy Gallen
Helen Daugherty Grady*
Patricia Grove*
Ruth Connor Sweetman*
Mary Foley Underwood* 

Daughters of Erin Past Presidents
2022-24 Sharon Tantes
2020-22 Chris McKenzie
2018-20 Sharon Selby
2016-18  Peggy McCathran
2014-16  Rebecca Ellis
2012-14  Mary Kelly Tisdale
2010-12  Karen Fahy
2008-10  Kelly Baesmann
2006-08  Karen Komatsu
2004-06  Karen Franz*
2002-04  Dawn Peterson*
2000-02  Peggy Fahy-Koch
1999-00  Gretchen Moriarty
1997-99  Kathy Burke
1996-97  Mary Hayes
1995-96  Debbie (Daugherty) Holtz
1993-95  Marita Surry
1991-93  Marlene Clements*
1989-91  Janet McGue
1988-89  Mary Ann McDowell*
1987-88  Joan Shanahan
1985-87  Dawn Graves (Peterson)*
1983-85  Mary Lane Mills*
1981-83  Kay McGovern
1978-80  Mary Grady-Strickland

*Deceased

Irish Women of the Year
2025: Mary Enright Freimark
2024: Cheryl Costello
2023: Nancy Longenbaker
2022: Debbie Lynch
2021: Becky Ellis
2020: Peggy McCathran
2019: Carolyn Collins
2018: Kathleen Shanahan-Burke
2017: Sharon Selby
2016: Karen Burke Franz*
2015: Colleen Collins
2014: Chris McKenzie
2013: Sharon Tantes
2012: Karen Komatsu
2010: Karen Fahy
2009: Peggy Fahy-Koch
2008: Peggy Shanahan
2007: Mary Kelly Tisdale
2006: Patricia Ardrey
2005: Dawn Peterson*
2004: Julie McGhee
2003: Vivian Lermond
2002: Janet McGue
2001: Catherine Lewis*
2000: Nora Dorrian*
1999: Mary Hayes
1998: Marge Kelly*
1997: Marlene Kuhn Clements*
1996: Candy McNally*
1995: Eileen Kelly Baesmann
1994: Joan Shanahan
1993: Helen T. O'Dowd*
1992: Mary Grady Strickland
1991: Ruth Hartigan Kunkle*
1990: Mary McGovern*
1989: Maude Audrey Taynor*
1988: Helen McDowell*
1987: Dorothy Powers Proffit*
1986: Jodi Hartigan*
1985: Mary Louise Kelly*
1984: Helen Grady*
1983: Marie McVey*
1981: Helen Keppner*

Member of the Year
2025: Peggy O'Neil Arnold
2024: Karen Fahy
2023: Margie Toner Thompson
2022: Mary Grady Strickland
2021: Sharon Selby
2020: Cheryl Costello
2019: Dawn Peterson*
2018: Debbie Lynch
2017: Peggy Shanahan
2016: Carolyn Collins
2015: Peggy McCathran
2014: Nancy Longenbaker
2013: Becky Ellis
2012: Colleen Collins
2011: Sarah Hill
2009: Mary Colleen Ryan
2008: Sharon Tantes
2007: Colleen Mascarin
2006: Loriann McCarthy*
2005: Peggy Fahy
2004: Marita Surry
2003: Margie Hess
2002: Karen Fahy
2001: Karen Franz*