Conversation Guest:
Rep. Renee Ellmers (NC)
Congresswoman Ellmers is a rising star and leader in the U.S. House of Representatives where she works
to promote common sense policies geared toward protecting liberty, protecting the free enterprise system,
and limiting the growth of the federal government. As a former nurse, small business owner, mother and
Member of Congress, she works each and every day to make our nation live up to its creed as the guardian
of liberty and foundation for prosperity.
Before her election to Congress, Renee served as a registered nurse for over twenty-one years, initially as a
surgical intensive care nurse and then focusing on surgical and wound care patients along with her
husband Dr. Brent Ellmers in their General Surgery practice. She never saw herself as a politician, nor
dreamed that she would be elected to federal office, but felt the call to action as she saw her industry and
life's work coming under attack.
Congresswoman Ellmers received her nursing degree from Oakland University. Mrs. Ellmers and her
husband Brent moved to North Carolina following the birth of their son Ben and have resided in Harnett
Co. ever since.
Conversation Guest:
Rep. Mimi Walters (CA)
Congresswoman Mimi Walters represents the 45th Congressional District of California and currently
serves on the House Judiciary Committee and the House Committee on Transportation and
Infrastructure. She previously served in the CA State Senate from 2008 - 2014.
Congresswoman Walters began her career in public service as a member of the Laguna Niguel City
Council in 1996. She served as the City’s mayor in 2000, and as a Councilwoman, she was a leading voice
for fiscally responsible government and local control.
She is a founder of the California Women’s Leadership Association (CWLA) and has served on the Boards
of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO), the Laguna Niguel Republican
Women Federated, the American Cancer Society, and the South Coast Medical Center Foundation.
Congresswoman Walters graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1984 with a
Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science. She and her husband, David, have 4 children.
Conversation Guest:
Sarah Chamberlain
Sarah Chamberlain, is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Main Street
Partnership and Main Street Advocacy.
As such, she is the only woman in America to hold these positions for a major political action committee.
Prior to serving as COO/CFO, she was the organization’s Executive Director.
Chamberlain first gained political experience as an assistant to Rep. Amory Houghton Jr., a former CEO
of the Corning Glass Company and a six-term member of Congress. In 1998 she moved to Washington,
D.C. to become the first Executive Director of the John Quincy Adams Society and to help found the Main
Street Partnership.
Born in upstate New York, she received her undergraduate degree in accounting from the University of
Delaware and her MBA and master’s degree in education from Elmira College in New York. This summer,
she will undertake a course of study in the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard University’s
Kennedy School of Government.