Director of the Northwest Area Foundation, Former Lieutenant Governor of Iowa
Sally Pederson is a consultant and Director of the Northwest Area Foundation. She served as Lieutenant Governor of Iowa during 1999–2007 and is a past Chair of the Iowa Democratic Party. Ms. Pederson is the Founder and Chair of the Advisory Board for REACH: Realizing Education and Career Hopes at the University of Iowa and Co-Chair of Justice Not Politics and serves on the advisory board of the Harkin Institute for Public Policy at Drake University and the Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence. She was inducted into the Iowa Women’s Hall of Fame in 2005.