Jacqualyn Gist Fuller

Jacqualyn Gist Fuller

Jacque is a retired speech/language clinician in the Lead-Deadwood school system. She was elected as the first woman commissioner and two terms later was elected mayor of Lead, SD. Over the years she has served on many local committees and boards including the Historic Homestake Opera House Society, where she served as President and helped to rebuild the opera house after the catastrophic fire of 1984. Statewide involvement includes membership on the following boards: Black Hills Area Community Foundation, South Dakotans for the Arts, Historic SD Foundation, Preserve South Dakota and currently as a member of the South Dakota Historical Society Foundation. She was appointed by Governor George Mickelson to the Governor's Board of Economic Development and served for many years. And she represented South Dakota for six years as one of South Dakota's two advisors to the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

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