National Board Officers

Connie L. Lindsey
Chair, National Board of Directors
Chicago, Ill.

During her induction ceremony, Lindsey described leadership: "Great leaders are great servants." Lindsey believes that we serve the best interests of girls by ensuring Girl Scouts has the structure, focus, and programs necessary to sustain another century of preparing today's girls to be tomorrow's leaders.

Connie L. Lindsey is National President of the Girl Scouts of the USA and the organization's highest ranking volunteer. Since her appointment in 2008, she has provided guidance in three vital areas—policy, fundraising, and management. She is an integral part of the Girl Scout transformation, committed to building and sustaining membership growth and ensuring girls receive a premier leadership development experience—no matter where they may be. Lindsey's Girl Scout experience spans decades and began at age 11 when she first became a member.

Lindsey is Executive Vice President and head of Corporate Social Responsibility at Northern Trust—a financial holding company. In this role, she is responsible for the design and implementation of the company's social responsibility goals, strategy, policies, and programs worldwide. Her duties include oversight of Northern Trust's response to environmental matters and social issues within the marketplace, workplace, and community.

Prior to that, Lindsey served as group head of the Public Entities and Institutions division at Northern Trust. In this role, she was responsible for the asset servicing and strategic management of public funds, foundation, and endowment clients. Previously, she served as the institution's director of Enterprise Relationship Management within the Worldwide Operations and Technology unit. Before that, she served as senior vice president for Northern Trust's Personal Financial Services unit, where she was responsible for community, personal, and business banking. She joined Northern Trust in 1993.

In addition to her volunteer role at Girl Scouts, Lindsey serves on the boards of the Chicago Finance Exchange, the Metropolitan Club of Chicago, Women Employed, and the Joffrey Ballet. She is chair and board secretary of Joffrey's diversity council. She is also an advisory board member of the DePaul University School of Education, a member of the Economic Club of Chicago, and immediate past president of Bottomless Closet.

Lindsey has been recognized for her outstanding professional and community leadership—most recently by the N'Digo Foundation—for making a positive impact in the community and the world. She is a recipient of Chicago United's Business Leaders of Color Award (2005), the Alpha Kappa Alpha Women Changing the World Award, the YWCA Leaders of Color Award, Chicago Defender Women of Excellence Award, Northern Trust's Chairman's Diversity Award, and Volunteer of the Year Award. An INROADS alumna, Lindsey has been inducted into the INROADS Alumni Hall of Fame, and has been featured in Black Enterprise magazine for her prominence in the business field.

Lindsey received a B.A. in finance from the University of Wisconsin. She resides in Chicago.

Davia B. Temin
First Vice President
New York, N.Y.

Davia B. Temin is president and CEO of Temin and Company, a reputation and crisis management, strategic marketing, and media consultancy. She founded the company in 1997 to help corporations and other institutions define and strengthen their market positioning, public image and identity, during good times and in times of crisis. Previously, Davia headed corporate marketing for General Electric Capital Services, where she oversaw marketing strategy, crisis communications, corporate identity, media relations, advertising, publications, investor relations, special events and corporate sponsorships for its 27 global businesses.

Before working at General Electric Capital, she directed marketing at Schroder Wertheim & Co., an international investment bank. Earlier in her career, Davia held senior corporate executive positions in marketing at Scudder, Stevens and Clark, Citicorp Investment Bank, and Columbia Business School. Originally from Cleveland, Davia is a former Girl Scout Brownie, one year selling more cookies than any other girl in Ohio. Elected to the National Board of Directors in 2005, she has been a Girl Scout Gold Award keynote speaker for the Girl Scout Council of Greater New York, which also honored her as a 2007 Woman of Distinction.

Elsewhere in the community, Davia chairs Women's Enews and serves on the boards of the White House Project, Video Volunteers, the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship at Columbia Journalism School, the Kaufman Cultural Center, and the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Fund. A former Swarthmore College trustee, she is past president of the Public Relations Society of New York; producer of a highly successful entertainment industry conference, "The Business of Entertainment: The Big Picture"; and past executive producer of The Night and the Music Productions.

Davia received her B.A. from Swarthmore College and her M.A. from Columbia University. A frequent public speaker, she has appeared as a guest on all the major television networks and on numerous local and national television shows around the world. Featured in the book Wall Street Women, Davia currently is writing a book on crisis management and, in November, will lead the crisis management conference of the Young Presidents' Organization in Atlanta.

Linda P. Foreman
Second Vice President
Durham, N.C.

GSUSA's National Secretary since 2002, Linda P. Foreman has been a girl and adult member for more than 50 years. A former troop leader, camp counselor, and national operational volunteer, she received both the Thanks Badge and the Thanks Badge II. After joining the National Board of Directors in 1996, Linda was a two-term member of the Councils Committee, and served as a National Board Liaison as well as vice chair or member of several task groups. Following reelection to the National Board in 1999, she chaired the Birthplace Advisory Group.

Linda was also a member of the 2002 World Conference delegation. She provided leadership to task groups on girl program, property, and governance, and served as vice chair of the Cadette and Senior Girl Scout Program Advisory Group. From 2002 to 2005, Linda chaired the Fund Development Committee and also served on the Core Business Strategy Steering Committee and the Governance and Organizational Structure Gap Team. In the 2005–2008 triennium, she served as chair of the Realignment Task Group and the Constitution Revision Task Group.

Before joining the National Board, Linda served in numerous volunteer positions in several councils. She was a program director, field director, volunteer trainer, and board committee member in Girl Scouts of Freedom Valley Council (Valley Forge, Pa.). In the Girl Scout Commonwealth Council of Virginia (Mechanicsville), she served as a board member and president, and for Pines of Carolina Girl Scout Council (Raleigh, N.C.), she volunteered as a board member and fund development committee chair.

The recipient of the 2005 Community Impact Award, Linda is a past president of the Transplant Foundation, serves Triangle United Way as a board and executive committee member, and chairs its Triangle Regional Initiatives Task Force. Professionally, she is project director of the Research Triangle Schools Partnership in Durham Public Schools.

Linda Mazon-Gutierrez
Secretary
Tucson, Ariz.

Joan Wagnon
Treasurer
Topeka, Kans.

In January 2003 Governor Kathleen Sebelius appointed Joan Wagnon secretary of revenue for the state of Kansas. Before this appointment, Joan was president of Central National Bank, a position she assumed after leaving office as mayor of Topeka in 2001. A former executive director of Kansas Families for Kids and of Topeka's YWCA, she has also been a schoolteacher, medical researcher, and state legislator for 12 years.

This former girl member and lifetime member received the Thanks Badge from the former Girl Scouts of Kaw Valley Council (Topeka), where she was a troop leader, special services volunteer, trainer, and council board president. Currently president of the streamlined sales tax governing board and a past chair of the multistate tax commission, Joan is also a board member of Central National Bank and president of the Rotary Club of Topeka. Joan has served on the Girl Scouts of the USA National Board since 2005.