“Being part of the PPNNE staff for three decades has been so formative for me, both personally and professionally.... I’ve had the privilege of leading a world-class staff and of meeting and building strong partnerships with inspiring political and philanthropic leaders. I have been called on to learn, grow, and change again and again. Most of all, I’ve had the chance to live my professional dream of supporting and nurturing an organization that lives its values, internally and in the world.”    — Nancy Mosher       ………    —– ………    Planned Parenthood has always attracted loyal, longtime employees (a.k.a. lifers), but Nancy Mosher is a lifer’s lifer — finishing her 31-year career at PPNNE with an eight-year tenure as CEO during the most adverse political period in memory. I vividly recall standing with other members of the board in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, DC, a few years ago, watching Nancy address an ocean of microphones as what seemed like all the cameras in the world bore down on her. I don’t suppose that the same woman imagined such a fate when she arrived for her first day of clinical work at PPNNE’s Barre, VT, health center a few decades earlier. Nancy has become the face of Planned Parenthood to those of us in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, and she remains an icon of leadership in the national movement. She is well known and well-loved by friends of the organization and its mission. It’s difficult to comprehend her departure, but her greatest gift to our organization is the strong, capable staff she has built over the years and the forward-thinking culture that will remain as her legacy. As the Board of Trustees searches for her successor, we do so with the confidence that comes in knowing what a powerful agency the next director will inherit. — Creston Lea      PPNNE Board Chair   The PPNNE Board of Trustees will oversee the hiring process and has hired the firm Russell Reynolds Associates to run the search process for a new President/CEO. Read the job description.

Top: Nancy Mosher, President/CEO since 2001   Middle: Nancy at the U.S. Supreme Court in 2005   Bottom: Nancy as a provider in the early '80s