Issues & Advocacy Director

2023-2025

Tina Brady Pettis joined the League of Women of Voters of Chicago in 2020. She has served on LWV Chicago’s Board as Director of Issues & Advocacy since 2021. She is additionally a member of the Diversity & Inclusion and Voter Service Committees, as well as the Southside Unit.

Tina organizes voter registration drives throughout the city and suburbs of Chicago and is dedicated to civic engagement and community building. She also sits on the LWV Cook County Criminal Justice Interest Group. Tina is working with Chicago Votes to pass the Voting in Prison Bill SB828.

Tina has shown outstanding leadership as the President of the National Association of University Women-Windy City Branch. In addition, she is a charter member of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women-Chicago Metropolitan Chapter, National Council of Negro Women-Chicago Central Section, Democratic Women of the Southland Region, and an associate member of the National Women Veterans United.

In recognition of her dedication to community service, Tina has received the President of the United States Volunteer Service Award, the National Association of University Women-North Central Section Woman of the Year Award, the Dorothy J. Fisher Community Service Servant Leader Award, and the National Council of Negro Women-Chicago Midwest Section Women Making History Award.

Tina has earned a bachelor’s degree from DePaul University, a master’s degree in legal studies from Purdue Global University, and a Diversity and Inclusion Certification from Cornell University.

In addition to her outstanding leadership and work in the community, Tina is an avid runner who has completed two marathons, Chicago and New York, a century bike ride, two Spartans, a triathlon, and duathlons.