Des Moines' Jacquie Easley McGhee Named WIN Region IV Coordinator

The Des Moines Branch of the NAACP is proud to celebrate longtime member and community leader Jacquie Easley McGhee, who has been appointed to serve as Women in NAACP Region IV Coordinator.

The appointment was announced February 11 by Karen Boykin-Towns, Vice Chair of the NAACP National Board of Directors, as part of a renewed national effort to strengthen Women in NAACP, commonly known as WIN, across the Association.

A record of leadership rooted in Des Moines

For those who know Jacquie's history of service, the appointment is a natural extension of decades spent strengthening health, education, civic life and opportunity in Iowa.

A Silver Life Member of the NAACP, Jacquie chairs the Iowa-Nebraska NAACP Conference of Branches Health Committee. Her broader community leadership includes service as Vice Chair of the United Way board and leadership of its Early Childhood Cabinet.

Her place in Des Moines history is especially significant. In 1990, Jacquie became the first African American woman elected to the Des Moines School Board. She served two terms and also served as board president, helping open doors that had too often remained closed to Black women in public leadership.

Her contributions have been recognized locally and nationally, including induction into the Iowa Women's Hall of Fame, recognition as a 2025 United Way Live United Leader and receipt of the NAACP's 2024 William Montague Cobb Award for Health Equity.

Strengthening WIN across Region IV

As Region IV WIN Coordinator, Jacquie will help strengthen communication, collaboration, leadership and engagement among Women in NAACP units throughout the region.

That work is important because women have always been central to the NAACP's organizing, leadership and service. WIN creates another pathway for women to connect their skills, networks and lived experience to the civil-rights work happening in their communities.

We are proud that a leader whose service has been so deeply rooted in Des Moines will now help strengthen that work across Region IV. Congratulations, Jacquie. Your branch celebrates you.