Lena Ann Elliott Term: July 2003 through 2007

Mesa State College
Board of Trustees

Lena Elliott is a community and volunteer organizer, activist and fundraiser. For more than four decades she has been active in public education with the Mesa County Valley School District, Mesa State College, the State Board of Community Colleges & Occupational Education and the Colorado Commission on Higher Education. She was a member of Governor Owens' Blue Ribbon Panel on Higher Education for the 21st Century.

Elliott served eight years as a gubernatorial appointee to the Commission on Judicial Discipline. She is a past chair of the Grand Junction Area Chamber of Commerce and of the Grand Junction Parks & Recreation Advisory Board. She is a former member of the Mesa State College Foundation board of directors and the Colorado Riverfront Commission.

Her fundraising activities have benefited many organizations including local schools, District 51, Mesa State College, United Way of Mesa County and St. Mary's Hospital.

Elliott has been widely honored for her civic contributions. She and her husband, Carter, are renowned for their leadership in tennis both locally and statewide. Mesa State College named its tennis courts in their honor. The UTEC culinary academy restaurant, Chez Lena, is named for her. The Elliotts have eleven adult children. All are college graduates, and eight now work in education.