Junior League appoints Jane Burdette to international task force
PARKERSBURG — A Parkersburg woman has been appointed to an international task force with the Junior League.
Jane Burdette has been appointed to serve on a Seat at the Table through the Association of Junior Leagues International. Fifteen members were selected from nearly 250,000 Junior League representatives.
Members include lawyers, grant writers, political figures, law enforcement, educators, activists and foundation members with new and long term members.
“The task force was created to develop the potential of women with a vision calling for ‘Women Around the World as Catalysts for Lasting Community Change,'” Burdette said. “The Junior League has been known as change makers with a voice through history and issues such as woman suffrage, domestic violence, human trafficking and countless others.”
Burdette was a recipient of the Junior League’s Mary Harriman Award presented as an International Visionary Award.
She is president-elect for the Parkersburg Junior League, co-chairman of the Boundless Playground and Cookbook committees and is the coordinator of the league’s Mint Julep Book Group.
She is president of the Horizons Center, a member of the Wood County Crime Commission, the League of Women Voters, the Democratic Senatorial Committee, the Parkersburg High School Class of 1973 Reunion Committee, is on the alumni associations for WVU, Glenville State and PCC, is a member of the St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church, past chairman of the Wood County Democratic Party Executive Committee and served on the Parkersburg Community Foundation Scholarship Committee, the Farm Bureau and the Cancer Society’s St. Joseph Landings Historical Tour committee and subcommittees.
The task force will identify issues Junior Leagues can take on in a nonpartisan way, develop a strategy identifying partners and other resources for individual leagues. The results will be presented at the 2018 Winter leadership conference.