ROADwomen

Diane Mosier - Executive Committee Member / President

Diane Mosier has been active in community, civic and political affairs for Harris County and her beloved Houston Heights. In fact, Diane and Bruce Mosier were part building Donovan Park which was done in 5 days and is a safe haven for neighborhood children. She is a contributing writer articles for the Heights Tribune and a believer in “smart” preservation supervising the renovation of her husband's law office on Heights Blvd which won the Heights Association Commercial Renovation of the Year.

Diane is a dedicated Democrat; a founding Member of Greater Heights Democratic Club, Harris County Democratic Lawyers and Floodway Coalition of Houston; Past Board Member of the Women's Political Caucus, HCDP Johnson-Rayburn volunteer and a member/contributor of many Democratic clubs as well as progressive organizations such as Planned Parenthood, LULAC and GLBT to mention a few. She strongly believes in collaborative efforts with other Democratic clubs and progressive organizations. While working on Bruce Mosier's campaign, she has become a devotee of blending new technology with old fashioned personal contact to win elections. Her goals for ROADwomen are to mentor young Democrats, raise money for Democratic candidates and causes, and to increase the woman's vote.

For 5 years, she worked as a Community Liaison for St. Representative Jessica Farrar after 2 years with Judge David Patronella. Diane is especially noted for her work in Judicial campaigns over the past 20 years and, most recently, helped Judge Kathy Stone claim Probate Court #1.

She hails from Beaumont Texas, where she attended Lamar University before moving to Houston. She is married to Attorney Bruce Mosier. She has 1 daughter, Carli, remarkable 3 Step-Children, and 7 fabulous grandchildren. In her spare time, she entertains seniors as members of the Sunshiners Band.

Frances Burford - Executive Committee Member

Frances Burford was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and since then has lived in two countries, ten states and and had thirty-two addresses. She graduated from George Washington University and earned a Master's Degree at State University of New York, New Paltz. Her first political involvement was to help found a chapter of the League of Women Voters in Newport, Rhode Island, and to organize their first candidate's forum; her first foray into partisan politics was in New York City licking envelops for Adlai Stevenson's 1956 campaign. Later she served as Vice-President of the Democratic Women's Club of Dutchess County, New York.

After a many years-long hiatus from any political work to raise children and teach mathematics, she joined the Houston League of Women Voters and served as treasurer for several years. But given nation's current state she feels the need to work for the Democratic Party and is happy and honored to serve on the Board of ROADwomen.

Muffie Moroney - Executive Committee Member

Houston native Muffie Moroney is one of the original Executive Committee members who helped found ROADwomen. She is a graduate of St. John's School (1961), Randolph-Macon Woman's College (1965), and the University of Houston Law Center (1982).

When not practicing law, Muffie is active in St. Stephen's Episcopal Church and the Episcopal Diocese of Texas. She serves on the boards of Planned Parenthood of Houston and Southeast Texas and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund. She is Co-President of the Randolph-Macon Woman's College Houston area alumnae chapter; and Co-Convenor of Integrity/Houston, advocating the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered persons in the Episcopal Church.

Muffie chaired ROADwomen's Fork-in-the-ROAD banquet in 2000, honoring the families of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. and all who worked for the passage of the Texas Hate Crimes Legislation. Another Fork-in-the-ROAD is now in the works.

She has two grown sons and a granddaughter.

Julia Cauthorn - Executive Committee Member

Julia grew up on a ranch between Del Rio and Brackettville in Val Verde County. Her father served in the legislature as a state representative -- his district went from Val Verde County to the outskirts of El Paso, and he was the man who tried to make the Big Bend National Park a reality. It is a park which was donated to the nation by the state of Texas, but in 1938 the governor felt $1 million was too much money to spend on a non-essential item. His campaign posters did not have the name of the party on it -- it was probably assumed that he was a Democrat in those days. Julia's mother served for seven years as a Democratic member of the Texas Library & Historical Commission (now two commissions), specializing in extension librarians to make sure all the small towns trained their non-librarians to catalogue and purchase using the Dewey Decimal System.

Julia was raised reading the Texas Observer. She says that she voted Republican only once--when the alternative was Frank Rizzo, the crooked two-term Democratic mayor of Philadelphia. Her political volunteer work has been as a block walker for voter registration and for Jim Daugherty, all since joining ROADwomen in 1997.

Leif Hatlen - Executive Committee Member / Treasurer

Leif Hatlen is the newly appointed Treasurer for ROADwomen PAC.



BIO comming soon.

Martha Huebel - Executive Committee Member

Martha Huebel has lived in Houston since babyhood and has been an active Democrat for many years. She has been a member of ROADwomen since its inception. She works in the adult learning and development field.
Martha has worked on voter registration and has block walked for several Democratic candidates.

Martha and her husband have two wonderful four-legged children.

Sharon Williams - Executive Committee Member / Newsletter Editor

Sharon Williams is a life-long Texan, Houstonian, and Democrat. She can remember her grandfather telling her as a child that she should always vote for the Democrat because, even if the candidate was a fool, the Democratic Party would make sure the right things happened. She also fondly remembers her late mother’s pride at sharing a birthday (January 30) with President Franklin Roosevelt. (Oh, the shame she might feel now if she knew that Dick Cheney also was born on January 30th!) Sharon worked for HISD for many years in a variety of positions, culminating in producing the district’s cable newscast. Since 2001, she has done freelance communications consulting. She is chairman of the board of Bayou City Concert Musicals and a member of the board of the Rotary Club of West University.

Shondra Wygal - Executive Committee Member / Vice President

Shondra is a native of Houston, Texas and graduate of Jack Yates Sr. High Magnet School of Communications. She has a B.A. degree in Political Science and Women's Studies from Ohio Wesleyan University. Shondra joined the Harris County Young Democrats in 1999. Since then, she has served on the Executive Committee for the Texas Young Democrats and is the current President. Shondra sits on the SDEC, Finance Committee of the Texas Democratic Party and the Harris County Steering Committee. Shondra has also served on the Affirmative Action and Outreach Committee and the Select Committee on Convention & Chartering for YDA. Shondra is former the VP of Finance/PAC Treasurer for the HCYD and the Vice-Chair (2005-2007) of the Women's Caucus of YDA. She is a trained mediator, a volunteer at St. Peter's Middle School, and an active member in her community and church. She is currently raising her three beautiful nieces.