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ROADwomen Executive Committee

Charlotte Coffelt, President

As a local Democratic activist who attended the founding meeting of the River Oaks Area Democratic Women in spite of living elsewhere (Kingwood), Charlotte Coffelt serves as the Democratic Precinct Chair (Precinct #760), as well as being a founding member of the Kingwood Area Democratic Club. Charlotte joined the executive committee of ROADwomen several years ago and served as vice-president during the tenure of the club’s original president, Dalia Stokes. Currently, she is serving as the presiding officer of The River Oaks Area Democratic Women.

A native of Oklahoma (and a graduate of Oklahoma State University), Charlotte, had taught school in both Oklahoma and Texas. While teaching in Humble ISD, northeast of Houston, she served as a principal of two public elementary schools for thirteen years.

As one who passionately supports our nation’s public schools, Charlotte (many years ago) was elected to serve on the north Harris County school district’s (Spring ISD) board of trustees, where she served two terms. Later, she was the Democratic nominee for the Texas State Board of Education in District #8 (a 23-county east Texas district). Although not elected to that office, she has continued to care about who represents voters in her area. She was the Democratic candidate for the Texas State House of Representatives in District #127 in 2004, when she challenged the incumbent who had chaired the Texas House of Representatives’ Redistricting Committee (at Congressman Tom DeLay’s behest).

Since her retirement, Charlotte has been honored by being named a Woman of Achievement by Family Time Foundation in 2003 and by receiving the 2006 Religious Liberty Award by the Greater Houston Area Chapter of Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

Charlotte and her husband of forty-seven years, Don, have three adult children and five grandchildren (three in her neighborhood). She enjoys attending these three grandchildren’s activities and accompanying her husband on various trips, both business and for pleasure.

Charlcye Sells, Presiding Officer

Charlcye Sells is a native Houstonian who has been an active Democrat since 1996. She joined ROADwomen in 1997 and became a member of the ROADwomen Executive Committee in 2003. Professionally, she is the Human Resources Manager for a multi-state corporation based in Houston.

Charlcye is a member of the executive board of the Greater Houston Chapter of Americans United for Separation of Church and State and a past board member of Harris County Democrats. She and her husband, James, were the 2002 - 2003 co-chairs of the Houston Political Action Committee of the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest advocacy group for lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgendered Americans. She has worked as a volunteer for local Democratic candidates.

Her daughter and two granddaughters live in Houston.

Jacque Fuller - Treasurer and Webmaster

After having worked as a volunteer in political campaigns since high school, Jacque joined the staff of U.S. Rep. Jim Mattox in the late seventies, doing general case work, working with students applying to the military academies, planning public events, etc. She was Mattox's liaison to several communities in his district, including the Hispanic and Gay Communities of Dallas. Continuing her career in politics, she worked on Rep. John Bryant's campaign to fill Mattox's seat in Congress after Mattox became Texas Attorney General, and she served a short time on his staff after his election.

Looking for a change of pace, Jacque followed her former husband on overseas assignments, living abroad until 1995. They lived in some very interesting places such as St. Croix, Indonesian Borneo, Algeria, and Russia. She was fortunate to be able to visit many other countries. Her favorites were Kenya, Botswana and Australia.

In order to keep busy while overseas, Jacque took correspondence courses, with occasional semesters on campus, toward her Bachelors degree. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Houston in 1997 with a BS in Anthropology minor in Geology.

Jacque is now with the non-profit organization, Amigos de las Américas. This is an organization that fosters youth leadership and community projects in Latin America.

In her "spare" time, Jacque is a Docent at the Houston Zoo, and is an avid SCUBA diver. Her daughter, and two beautiful grandchildren are the lights of her life.

Jacque has been a ROADwoman since 1997.

Muffie Moroney,

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,

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.

Sharon Williams

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.