Becky Cain

Rebecca "Becky" Cook Cain-Ceperley was the president of the League of Women Voters from 1992-1998. Cain is currently the president and CEO of The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation in Charleston, West Virginia. As the national president of the League, she played an active role in seeking congressional action on a broad range of public policy issues including the fight for the passage of the National Voter Registration Act.

In 1996 the Ladies' Home Journal named her one of the most powerful women in politics in the category of issues and advocates. Following her tenure at the League of Women Voters, she worked to achieve campaign finance reform in Congress as the president of Campaign for America.

Cain has appeared on CBS This Morning, Primetime Live, the Larry King Show, and National Public Radio's All Things Considered. Scripps-Howard and Cox News Service have also carried her columns and guest editorials. She is currently a contributing columnist for The Charleston Gazette.

She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Campaign Finance Institute, the Alliance for Better Campaigns, the American Judicature Society, and the West Virginia Nature Conservancy.

She also serves on the Committee on Legislation and Regulations for the Council on Foundations.

Cain is a former member of the Executive Committee of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the Advisory Committee on Election Law to the American Bar Association, and the West Virginia Election Commission.

Cain received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and International Relations from West Virginia University in 1969. While at WVU, she was a member of Alpha Phi. She is a recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award from the West Virginia University Political Science Department and the recipient of the College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Recognition Award for public service, Cain has also received Honorary Doctor of Law Degrees from Ripon College, University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Charleston, West Virginia.

Sources

• Appearances on C-SPAN
• Plaza of Heroines Profile of Becky Cain
• League of Women Voters
• Testimony on Proposals For Electoral College Reform from 1997
• The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation
• Charleston Gazette article on Nonprofit Organizations
• March 28, 2006 - Philanthropy Initiative Aims at Sustainable Kanawha-Putnam