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Indiana Bicentennial Celebration 2016
Brenda Gerber Vincent
Brenda Gerber Vincent currently serves as Vice President of Development for Lifeline Youth & Family Services and Crosswinds Inc. in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Both are non-profits serving troubled youth & families in and outside of the court system.
Before coming to Lifeline, she served both Governor Pence and First Lady Karen Pence of Indiana. She served as the Deputy Finance Director for the “Mike Pence for Indiana” campaign and as the First Lady’s Chief of Staff. Brenda was selected to serve on both the 2012 & 2016 Statewide GOP Platform Committees, and has twice been elected as a Delegate to the GOP State Convention.
Brenda served as a Governor appointed, Indiana Bicentennial Commissioner, and serves on numerous boards including, The Board of Governors for the Richard G. Lugar Excellence in Public Service Series, The Carriage House, First Lady’s Charitable Foundation, and the “100+ Women Who Care” Steering Committee. In December 2016 Brenda was awarded the “Sagamore of the Wabash” – Indiana’s highest civilian honor.
Brenda is proud to be a fourth generation Fort Wayne native. She received her bachelor’s degree from Indiana University, where she continues to serve on the Indiana University Board of Associates for the Student Foundation. Besides her husband and children, she considers her single greatest achievement co-founding the Carriage House—a psychosocial rehabilitation facility established to restore seriously mentally ill persons to maximum social and employment functioning.
