LINDA F. GOLODNER

Linda Golodner is President and CEO of the National Consumers League and has been with NCL for 19 years. NCL is the nation’s pioneer consumer organization, founded in 1899, to bring consumer power to bear on marketplace and workplace issues. Priority programs include food and drug safety, health care, fair labor standards, telecommunications and technology, financial services, environmental issues, and consumer fraud.

 In addition to serving as President of NCL, Golodner chairs the National Council on Patient Information and Education and the Alliance Against Fraud in Telemarketing and Electronic Commerce, a coalition of more than 90 groups organized to combat fraud through combined efforts and public education. Golodner serves on the Board of Directors of the National Patient Safety Foundation, the Union Community Fund, and the American National Standards Institute, where she chairs the Consumer Interest Council. She is on the Executive Board of the Conference for Food Protection and the Interstate Shellfish Sanitation Conference, the Advisory Council of the Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, and the Steering Committee of the Centers for Education and Research on Therapeutics. In addition, she co-chairs the Verizon Consumer Advisory Board, is a member of the Water Quality Health Council, and serves on the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association Consumer Advisory Council. Golodner is on the Board of Directors of the International Cocoa Initiative and is a founding member and co-chair of the Child Labor Coalition, which is concerned with international and domestic exploitation of children in the workplace. She co-chaired the White House Apparel Industry Partnership and serves on the Board of Directors of its successor organization, the Fair Labor Association.

 Golodner received the American Pharmaceutical Association’s Hugo H. Schaefer Award. The United Nations Association (NCA) also honored her for her work in human rights. The American Council on Consumer Interests presented her with the “Friend of Consumers Award” in recognition of her outstanding contributions to policies that promote consumers’ interests nationally and internationally.

 Before coming to NCL in 1983, Golodner was president of her own public affairs firm. She also worked for the US House of Representatives on the staff of former Congressman James G. O’Hara of Michigan . Golodner is a former commissioner and chair of the Fairfax County Commission for Women. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Maryland in 1975.  

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