SHAWANO, Wisconsin—NEWH, Inc. (Community of Govt Ladies in Hospitality), a premier affiliation dedicated to scholarships, advancing training, mentorship, and networking within the hospitality trade, declares that NEWH, Inc. Previous President Chris Tucker assumed the place of CEO of NEWH, Inc. and NEWH Canada, Inc., efficient Nov. 1, 2024.
Earlier CEO Shelia Lohmiller transitioned to NEWH, Inc. chair emerita/founder, the place she is going to nonetheless function an energetic and significant a part of the group. Tucker, who additionally serves as president of NEWH Canada, Inc., turned that function over to Tara Witt, present vice chairman of finance for the NEWH Canada, Inc. Board of Administrators.
With over 35 years within the inside design trade, Tucker started her profession at Fanshawe Faculty in London, Ontario, earlier than shifting to the availability aspect within the trade. Because the founding father of Tucker and Associates, she carefully collaborated with purchasers, property homeowners, designers, and designers. As she transitions, Tucker and Associates will proceed its legacy beneath new management.
“Shelia has mentored so many, together with me,” Tucker stated. “She’s been a useful help to numerous NEWH members.” As Lohmiller transitions into her new function, Tucker assures her presence will stay robust. “She’ll proceed guiding me and sustaining the identical degree of dedication. So, if anybody wants her, she’ll nonetheless be accessible—however just for pleasant calls!”
A real champion of NEWH, Tucker joined the group in 2005 and has since held greater than 40 totally different board positions—from treasurer, president, and government advisor on the NEWH Toronto Chapter Board to NEWH, Inc. board positions together with vice chairman, president-elect, and her most up-to-date tenure as president and previous president of the NEWH, Inc. Board and NEWH Canada, Inc.
Now approaching 30 chapters worldwide, NEWH, Inc. over the previous 40 years has awarded over $9.3 million in scholarships to college students aspiring to be in all elements of the hospitality trade. Shelia Lohmiller co-founded NEWH in 1984 alongside Dorrit St. John and Susan Spalding. She served because the founding president, later changing into government director, and finally CEO in 2020. Lohmiller has been acknowledged with NEWH’s first Recognition of Excellence, the 2011 HD Visionary Award, and the 2024 Hospitality Design Manfred Steinfeld Humanitarian Award. A champion of training and girls’s empowerment, she stays a driving pressure behind NEWH’s international impression.
“For the previous 10 years, I’ve been contemplating when the precise time would come to step down and cross the torch to somebody youthful,” stated Lohmiller. “There’s just one individual I do know who shares my deep love for NEWH, and that’s Chris. I’ve full religion in her, and I’m assured that beneath her management, NEWH will proceed to develop and thrive.”
NEWH, Inc. will proceed to function its headquarters in Shawano, Wisconsin, supported by satellite tv for pc places of work in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and Toronto, the place Tucker might be primarily based.
