About Terri McCormick
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Terri McCormick is a public policy and leadership innovator. She is the President of the McCormick Dawson CPG, Ltd., a marketing and public relations firm. Terri McCormick was a State Representative to the Wisconsin State Legislature from 2000 to 2006.
She is a National Truman Scholar nominee from the State of Wisconsin. Terri represented the entire ‘University of Wisconsin System’ with this distinction as one of only two students chosen from the State of Wisconsin.
McCormick recently wrote a book about her experience as a public servant and included her thoughts on the direction the country is taking. The book, titled What Sex Is a Republican? Stories From the Front Lines of American Politics and How You Can Change the Way Things Are offers all Americans an inspiring and personal message. Terri instructs her readers to find integrity leaders to replace the career politicians infecting the political system to get back to the basic foundation laid by our country’s Founding Fathers.
Prior to being elected to the Wisconsin Assembly, serving from 2001 to 2007, Terri McCormick was intimately involved in the school choice movement and wrote Wisconsin’s innovative charter school laws. The charter school laws Terri was involved in drafting now successfully serve over 25,000 students from across the state of Wisconsin. After writing the laws, Terri went on to teach middle and high school students in the Appleton area.
Representative McCormick’s innovative work as a Wisconsin legislator has won numerous state and national awards including the Eisenberg Award from the Wisconsin Public Defender’s Office, the Scales of Justice Award from the Wisconsin State Bar, and the Best Practice Award from the Small Business Administration in DC.
Terri McCormick was a U.S. Delegate to the International Peace Institute at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario. McCormick is a 2002 graduate of the Bowhay Institute in Legislative Leadership Development. She has taken doctorate level coursework in Public Policy and Public Administration. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree, magna cum laude, Political Science and European Studies from the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh, as well as a Master’s Degree in Administrative Leadership, highest honors, from Marian University in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. As a former classroom teacher, McCormick also holds an Education Certificate from Lawrence University in Appleton as well as credentials in graduate studies in Political Theory from the University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario.
Representative McCormick and her husband live in the Town of Greenville in the greater Appleton area. They have four children and are recently proud grandparents, as well.
