Community Health Endowment of Lincoln

For June 12, we will be in the Lancaster/Nebraska Room (south of our regular meeting room).

BIO

Kate Bolz is the President and CEO of the Community Health Endowment, working to make Lincoln the healthiest community in the nation. 

Kate has extensive nonprofit and government experience.  She served as the State Director for Rural Development for the United States Department of Agriculture and as a Mayoral Aide for Economic Development for the City of Lincoln, Nebraska. She served for eight years as a State Senator, leading efforts to invest in higher education and human services as Vice Chair of the Appropriations Committee.  

In addition to her government work, she served as the Executive Director of the Nebraska Association of Service Providers (an association of community-based disability service providers) and as an adjunct professor at Union College. 

Kate earned a bachelor’s degree from Nebraska Wesleyan University and a master's in social work from the University of Michigan. A proud 6th generation Nebraskan, Kate Bolz grew up on a family farm in Otoe County, Nebraska.  She and her husband Sean are the proud parents of their son Michael.