{"id":22,"date":"2023-12-27T13:10:07","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T19:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mn\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2026-05-21T20:23:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T01:23:04","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mn\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NARFE Minnesota Federation began in 1965 and provides resources and expertise to help federal employees and annuitants. \u00a0As of May 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2026\/05\/2025-05-MN-Federal-Family-Fact-Sheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Minnesota\u2019s Federal Family<\/strong><\/a> has greater than <em>61,000<\/em> employees and annuitants.<\/p>\n<h6>[all links on this page open a <em>new tab<\/em>; closing it returns you to this page]<\/h6>\n<p>To contact our Elected Officers:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mn\/contact-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 Jim Ryan<br>\n1st Vice President (Membership) \u2013 <span style=\"color: #808080\"><em>[vacant]<\/em><\/span><br>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mn\/contact-vp-for-legislation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2nd Vice President<\/a> <\/strong>(Legislation) \u2013\u00a0JJ Dippel<br>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mn\/federation-secretary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Secretary<\/a> <\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Judy Steinhouse<br>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mn\/contact-treasurer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Treasurer<\/a> <\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Deb Fredericksen<\/p>\n<p>To contact Appointed Chairpersons:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mn\/contact-alzheimer-coordinator\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alzheimer\u2019s Coordinator<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 Jan Crackel<br>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mn\/contact-newsletter-editor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newsletter Editor<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 Charlene Trnka<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mn\/contact-pac-coordinator\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>NARFE-PAC Coordinator<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Art Lemke<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mn\/contact-service-officer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Service Officer<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Donna Kimmes<br>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mn\/contact-webmaster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Webmaster<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 Charlene Trnka, Karen Evens<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NARFE MN Federation list of officers, history, and year-round special projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-22","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":59,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1301,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions\/1301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}