Meet lisa kennedy sheldon
Meet lisa kennedy sheldon
A life of care, leadership, and service
A life of care, leadership, and service
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Lisa has spent her life in service to others.
Lisa was raised in a family that believed service meant stepping up when others needed you. Her father lied about his age to join the Army at 17 and fight in World War II. Her mother was a maternity nurse and Red Cross volunteer.
Her parents' choices helped shape Lisa’s lifelong belief that public life should be about courage, responsibility, and doing your part for others.
As a nurse, educator, nonprofit leader, mother of four, and grandmother, Lisa has spent her own life caring for people and strengthening the institutions that families rely on.
For decades, she has served patients in New Hampshire, mentored future healthcare professionals, and helped organizations work better for the people and communities they serve.
She is running for Executive Council because Granite Staters deserve leadership grounded in service, independence, and common sense.
A life of service. A record of leadership.
Lisa spent 22 years caring for patients at St. Joseph Hospital Cancer Center in Nashua. She earned her PhD in nursing. She taught and mentored future healthcare professionals.
As a tenured faculty member at the University of Massachusetts Boston, Lisa taught future healthcare professionals and helped them deepen the connection between evidence, practice, and public service.
Lisa knows what it means to review consequential decisions carefully, ask hard questions, and make sure institutions are serving the people they are meant to serve.
Experience that fits the job.
Lisa has spent years doing the kind of work this office is supposed to oversee. Through leadership roles at the Oncology Nursing Society and board service with Saint Anselm College, Waypoint, and the National Cancer Policy Forum, she has worked with contracts, budgets, grants, appointments, and policy decisions that carry real consequences for families and communities.
She understands how grants, contracts, and public funding decisions shape real outcomes — and how important it is to make sure those dollars are being spent wisely. She knows how to ask hard questions, read the fine print, and make sure institutions work for the people they are meant to serve.
For the next generation
Today, Lisa is a grandmother who wants the next generation of Granite Staters to grow up in a New Hampshire where families can build a good life, children can thrive, and public leaders remember who they serve.
She believes New Hampshire should be a place where families can build a good life, where children can grow up with strong schools and healthy communities, and where leaders remember who they serve.
Rooted in New Hampshire
Lisa has built her life in New Hampshire with her husband, Tom — raising their family here, serving patients here, and working to strengthen communities across the state. She believes New Hampshire is at its best when public life is guided by independence, common sense, and a deep sense of responsibility to one another.
Lisa is running because one of the most important offices in New Hampshire needs exactly those values now.
Deep roots.
Real service.
A better future for New Hampshire.
Deep roots.
Real service.
A better future for New Hampshire.