Republican Mike Ragan announced Monday that Anne Hathaway, Indiana Republican Party chair, will be the keynote speaker at the Kosciusko County Republican Lincoln Day Dinner.
The event is scheduled for Thursday, May 2 at the Owl’s Nest in North Webster. The social will be from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., and dinner will be at 6:30 p.m.
Hathaway is president and chief executive officer of Hathaway Strategies, an innovative grassroots public affairs firm headquartered in Indianapolis, according to a news release from Mike Ragan, Kosciusko County Republican Party Central Committee. She has extensive public service and political experience as a member of the George H.W. Bush White House, U.S. Treasury Department and the Republican National Committee.
In August 2023, Hathaway was tapped by Gov. Eric Holcomb to serve as chairwoman of the Indiana Republican State Committee and is the first female chair in the organization’s history. Since 2018, Hathaway has also served as Indiana Committeewoman on the Republican National Committee. She currently serves as chairman of the Committee on Arrangements for the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee and as co-chair of the Temporary Presidential Debates Committee. She previously served as chair of the 2024 and 2028 Republican National Convention Site Selection Committee.
Hathaway served at the White House as assistant to the vice president and director of scheduling and public liaison for vice president Dan Quayle, was chief of staff and Midwest regional political director for the Republican National Committee, program director for the 2012 Republican National Convention, and was executive director of the Indiana House Republican Campaign Committee.
Hathaway currently serves as executive director of the Richard G. Lugar Excellence in Public Service Series, which has trained nearly 600 Hoosier women to engage in public service and politics. In addition, she chairs and serves on many local and national not-for-profit boards and is a sought-after speaker, especially about the current state of political affairs and the leadership roles women can play in business and politics.
She serves as the executive director of the Indiana Medical Device Manufacturers Council (IMDMC), an association of medical device manufacturers and associated companies established to promote the medical device industry.
In 2022 and 2023, Hathaway was named one of the Indianapolis Business Journal’s 250, a list of the state’s most impactful and influential business and community leaders.
In 2019, she received the Career Achievement Award from the University of Illinois College of Agriculture. In 2015, she was named an Indianapolis Business Journal Woman of Influence.
Other awards and honors include being named to POLITICO’s Top 50 Politicos to Watch, 2013 Torchbearer Award Winner from the Indiana Commission for Women, the Lugar Series Nancy A. Maloley Public Service Award, the Iron Jawed Angel Award from the National Excellence in Public Service Series and in 2016, the National Association of Women Business Owners’ Indianapolis Trailblazer Award.
Tickets are $500 for a table of eight or $60 per person. RSVP to Ragan at 574-265-1430 or Austin Rovenstine at 574-551-3805.