New volunteer leaders appointed
By: Source: AARP.org Date Posted: 2003-12-08 00:00:00-05:00
Bob Corley, Southeast Regional Volunteer Director, and Julie Cohn, Regional Director, announced the appointment of Cas Robinson as the new state president of AARP Georgia and Lois Stifel as a member of the Executive Council.
Cas Robinson—AARP Georgia State President
Having just completed his first term as the executive council member for advocacy, Robinson begins his two-year term as president on Jan. 1. He succeeds Betty Klein, who served for nearly six years.
Robinson, a resident of Stone Mountain, has been a valued member of the AARP Georgia executive council. He has been particularly effective at providing his considerable public policy perspective and government experience to the council as it crafts the organization's strategic direction in the state. His oft-stated vision for AARP Georgia is that it becomes "the most powerful force for good in Georgia."
Robinson is a long-time public servant, who has made a professional and volunteer career of deliberating and advocating public policies in Georgia and Washington, D.C. He was first elected to the Georgia General Assembly in 1976, where he served 11 years as representative, committee chairman and floor leader of the powerful DeKalb County House delegation. He was appointed by the governor and later elected to the Georgia Public Service Commission. He also worked at the National Association of Regulatory Commissioners and the Nuclear Energy Institute in Washington, D.C.
For more than 20 years, he has served as a pastor and as a denomination executive for the Presbyterian Church U.S. Board of National Mission. He currently provides consulting services to non-profit organizations in the development of effective advocacy strategies for their public policy issues. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Alabama and a master's degree in divinity from Louisville Presbyterian Seminary and later completed advanced graduate studies at Austin Presbyterian Seminary.
Lois Stifel—AARP Georgia Executive Council Member for Communications
Stifel is a 25-year veteran in the field of public and community relations in the public, private and non-profit sectors. She developed an expertise in senior issues while serving as the southeast manager of a national, grassroots public education campaign for financial literacy for the U.S. Department of Treasury. In that role, she collaborated with most of the state agencies on aging, including the Georgia Division of Aging Services, and also interacted with AARP representatives in other southeastern states.
These experiences have enabled Stifel to develop and use her strong strategic alliance-building abilities for more than 20 years. They are experiences that should be invaluable to the AARP Georgia Executive Council as it charts a strategic course for the coming years.
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