Linda Golodner was appointed Executive Director of the National Consumers League (NCL) in 1985, and elected President in 1991. NCL is the nation's pioneer consumer organization, founded in 1899, to bring consumer power to bear on marketplace and workplace issues. Priority programs for the League are food and drug safety, health care reform, fair labor standards, telecommunications, financial services, environmental issues, and consumer fraud.
In addition to being president of the League, Golodner co-chairs the White House Apparel Industry Partnership, is a member of the Department of the Treasury Advisory Committee on International Child Labor, and has served as chair of the U.S. Department of Labor Child Labor Advisory Committee. Golodner co-chairs the Child Labor Coalition, which is concerned with international and domestic exploitation of children in the workplace. She represents the National Consumers League on several national boards, including the National Council on Patient Information and Education (Secretary), the National Patient Safety Foundation (Secretary), and the Executive Board of the Conference for Food Protection. She chairs the Alliance to Protect Electricity Consumers (APEC), and the Alliance Against Fraud in Telemarketing, a coalition of more than 90 groups organized to combat fraud through combined efforts and education. She also co-chairs the Bell Atlantic Consumer Advisory Board and the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association Consumer Advisory Council. She received the American Pharmaceutical Association's Hugo H. Schaefer Award in 1997. She was also honored by the United Nations Association/ NCA, for her work in human rights in 1997.
Before coming to the League in 1983, Golodner was president of her own public affairs firm, representing nonprofit institutions, associations, and political organizations. She also worked for the U.S. House of Representatives on the staff of former Congressman James G. O'Hara of Michigan.
Golodner is a former commissioner and chair of the Fairfax
County Commission for Women. She graduated summa cum laude from
the University of Maryland in 1975.