In response to his switch, the Republican state chairwoman, Evelyn McPhail, said her party welcomed him.

The next year, Cohen was selected as the state chairwoman of the National Women's Political Caucus.

The head of the new office, Bonnie Campbell, is a former Democratic state chairwoman and lost a bid for governor last year.

She urged Mr. Stevenson to run for governor in 1948 and served as the state chairwoman of his successful gubernatorial campaign.

On March 31, 2007 Nevada Democrats elected Derby as the state chairwoman of the Democratic party.

Judith Hope, the state Democratic chairwoman, said Mrs. Clinton called her the other day and talked about doing some upstate travel.

The recent elections could not have been much worse, despite the state chairwoman's ebullient announcement that 198 offices had been wrested from the opposition.

He chose Olivia Maynard, a 54-year-old former Democratic state chairwoman, as his running mate.

And she injects representation from the Liberal Party, of which she is the state chairwoman.

Since 1990, she has been the party's state chairwoman, the first woman to hold that position.