Meet the Board

League of Women Voters^®
of Montgomery County

A little bit about us

President's Bio. Past-President's Bio. President-Elect's Bio. Treasurer's Bio. Secretary's Bio. Communication Chair's Bio. Community Relations Chair's Bio. Education and Advocacy Chair's Bio. Membership Chair's Bio.

President

Mara Saltz is President of the League of Women Voters of Montgomery County, Texas.
In community stewardship roles, Mara serves as an active advisor on various boards and committees, including the Gulf Coast Regional Center for Innovation and Commercialization and Houston Symphony Marketing Committee. She is an author, guest lecturer and has taught marketing and business management courses at Houston area colleges and universities, including Lone Star College + Montgomery.
Professionally, Mara has 20 years of management and consulting experience developing and implementing initiatives for organizations ranging from start-ups to multi-nationals. She is currently President of Saltz & Associates, LLC, a management consultancy focused primarily on advancing the strategic planning, business development, marketing, and performance improvement efforts of energy, healthcare and technology organizations. She helps clients achieve significant value by working collaboratively across multiple client disciplines, enabling new insights and integrated solutions. Prior to Saltz & Associates she held senior roles at Accenture and GE. She also worked for a multi-national advertising agency where she created award-winning campaigns.
Mara received an M.B.A. in Finance, Marketing, Policy & Environment from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and a B.F.A. in Graphic Design from the California College of the Arts.
She has two cats from the SPCA and plants native trees or shrubs every year, so she's a little green behind the ears.
Here's Mara

Past-President

Andi Rosene is Past President of the League of Women Voters of Montgomery County, Texas.
Andi is the Co-Founder and President of Madison River Associates, a small and mighty, transformational international consulting firm. Andi has been in the business improvement field for over 15 years, and believes that "through understanding people's behaviors, business strategies can be applied and strengths can be capitalized upon." In the past, Andi has owned a retail store and a training marketing company, all of which experience has culminated into what she claims as her "people sense."
Andi's professional work requires flexibility and adaptability as she works with small business owners, executives from Fortune 500 Companies, and international transformational teams, all of which represent diverse cultures and belief systems. These experiences have allowed her to see that every person's contribution is unique and if, aligned with their interests and abilities, everyone is integral to the goals of the organization.
Andi served on the Board of Directors for "Grandkids" the first Intergenerational Infant and toddler care center that was part of the Steamboat Springs Hospital and Assisted Care Living Center. Andi is the past president of the Skywire Way Homeowner's Association. An Insights Licensed Practitioner, a Rapport Leadership International Master Graduate, and a Discover U + Master Graduate, has given her a multitude of tools to apply to her leadership roles.
Andi and her husband Steve have lived in Montgomery County for the past 12 years, which is a record + working within the mining industry they have had the pleasure of many addresses in many beautiful states across the country. They have four children, and two four legged "kids."
Here's Andi

President-Elect

President-Elect "TBA"

Treasurer

Mary Bootz is the Treasurer of the League of Women Voters of Montgomery County.
- more information coming soon.

Secretary

PAT GOODPASTOR is Secretary of the League of Women Voters of Montgomery County.
Pat has been a member of the LOWV Montgomery County for two years, and currently serves as Secretary. She has lived in Grogan's Mill Village for 33 years and has raised two children in The Woodlands.
Pat served 6 years on The Woodlands Community Association Board. During her time on the WCA board, she also served on The Woodlands Fire Department board and Woodlands Community Service Corporation Board. She has been a member of the Grogan's Mill Village Association Board since 1996, and currently serves as secretary.
Pat is a 1997 graduate of Leadership Montgomery County. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Nursing from Southern Illinois University and a Master's Degree from Texas Woman's University. She is a graduate of the Johnson & Johnson Wharton Fellow Program in Management for Nurse Executives. Pat is retired from Memorial Hermann The Woodlands Hospital where she served as the Chief Nurse Executive for 21 years.
She enjoys gardening, travel, water aerobics, reading, theater, and most of all spending time with her grandson.
Here's Pat

Communications Chair

Mary Jarvis is the current Communications Chair of Montgomery County.
Mary is the owner of a jewelry design business she started in 1999, after a career in communications and graphic design. She held positions in graphic design at The University of Mississippi, and WKNO-TV in Memphis, TN. Currently her designs and creations are represented in several galleries in the Houston area. She studies advanced jewelry at The Glassell School of Art in Houston. Mary is President of the Houston Metal Arts Guild and a member of Society of North American Goldsmiths.
Mary looks forward to her work on the League of Women Voters, Montgomery Co. She feels lucky to have grown up in a family that taught the importance of being an informed voter. In her family, voting was not only a privilege but also a duty as an American Citizen. Her great grandfather, Felix Grundy Bransford served on the 20th Texas State Legislature. She enjoys learning about American history by reading, and through researching her family history.
Mary and her husband have lived in Spring, Texas since 2007. Both are native Texans, but also lived in several states and cities across the South. Mary and Lamar have two grown sons and three grandchildren. Here's Mary

Community Relations Chair

Community Relations Chair "TBA"

Education and Advocacy Chair

Helen Bostock is the Education and Advocacy Chair of the League of Women Voters of Montgomery County.
Helen Bostock holds a BS degree in chemistry from Chatham College (now Chatham University) and a MS degree in industrial engineering and PhD in engineering science from Louisiana State University. She has worked in industry, government, and academia, most recently providing computerized surface water quality modeling and statistical analyses to the environmental services industry.
Helen is on the part-time continuing education faculty at Lone Star College + Montgomery and is immediate past chair of the advisory committee and chair of the technology committee for Lone Star College - Academy of Lifelong Learning + Montgomery (ALL-M). For the ALL-M program and as a LWV-M outreach project, she developed and taught classes entitled: `Government in Montgomery County, Texas' and `How to be an Informed Voter'. Helen and her husband, Howard, serve as election clerks at Precinct 62.
Helen is a member of the American Statistical Association, Water Environment Federation, the Newcomers Club of The Woodlands, and a non-resident sustaining member of the Junior League of Baton Rouge. Other interests include travel, cycling, and reading back issues of the New Yorker magazine. Here's Helen

Membership Chair

Membership Chair "TBA"

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