Ann F. Lewis appointed National Chair of the Democratic Party's Women's Vote Center

February 4, 2002

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Ann F. Lewis speaking at St Anselms College, NH. Photo copyright Bob Jean, all rights reserved. Used with permission.

Ann F. Lewis was appointed National Chair of the Democratic National Committee's Women's Vote Center on February 4, 2002. The Women's Vote Center is dedicated to educating and mobilizing women voters to help elect more Democrats to office at all levels of government.

Lewis has enjoyed a rich political career both before and after being appointed to this position. She had worked for or advised Boston Mayor Kevin White, Senators Barbara Mikulski and Birch Bayh, and presidential candidate Jesse Jackson. She had also worked as political director of the Democratic National Committee and as director of Americans for Democratic Action. Lewis served in the White House as Director of Communications from 1997-1999 and then as Counselor to President Bill Clinton. She was Director of Communications and Deputy Campaign Manager for the Clinton-Gore Re-Election Campaign in 1995-1996. She also served as Senior Advisor to Hillary Rodham Clinton's U.S. Senate campaign in 2000. Lewis served as Director of Communications for Friends of Hillary, Senator Hillary Clinton's political action committee, and was active as a senior advisor to Hillary Clinton's 2008 campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. In June 2009, Lewis was honored with the inaugural National Jewish Democratic Council's Belle Moskowitz Award in Washington, D.C.

While at the White House, Lewis co-chaired the President's Commission on the Celebration of Women in American History. She has also served as a member of the Jewish Women's Archive's Board of Directors and as Chair of JWA's Honorary Committee for the Celebration of 350 Years of Jewish Women in North America.

To learn more about Ann F. Lewis, visit Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution.

See also: "The Belle of the Political Ball" and "Jewish Women and the Democratic National Committee," Jewsses with Attitude.

Sources: Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution, jwa.org/feminism/index.html?id=JWA049; query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res= 9B0DE3D8123BF93BA1575AC0A961948260.