CATHOLIC DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAS
2023-2025 STATE OFFICERS, SUPERVISORS
CHAIRPERSONS AND SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS
(Courtesy of Gunnar J. Kuepper)
2023-2025 CALIFORNIA STATE CDA OFFICERS*
State Chaplain
Rev. John Erick Villa
State Regent
Maria Santos-Silva cacdastateregent@californiacatholicdaughters.org
2nd Vice State Regent
Sheri Kanagawa
cacda2ndvr@californiacatholicdaughters.org
State Treasurer
Michelle Eck
cacdatreasurer@californiacatholicdaughters.org
CA Supervising Officer
Yvette Griego, CDA Natinal Director
First Vice National Regent/National Supervisor
Essie Walker
1st Vice State Regent
Lorine Bakowsky
cacda1stvr@californiacatholicdaughters.org
State Secretary
Yvonne Connolly
cacdasecretary@californiacatholicdaughters.org
*Note: Officer’s term are two years. See State Convention for more information.
CIRCLE OF LOVE CHAIRPERSONS
Education – Cheryl Vitali
Family – Laura McQuoid
Leadership – Ismaela Muniz-Heiden
Legislation – Patty Lepe
Quality of Life – Andrea Rodriguez-Ochoa
Spiritual Enhancement – Gloria Rodberg
Youth/JCDA – Maribel Torres-Lara
CHAIRPERSONS MEMBERSHIP & SUPERVISORS
Membership-North – Maureen Laubacher
Membership-South – Vacant
DD Supervisor – Central Lilian Draxler
Membership-Central – Kathi Morris
DD Supervisor – North Sylvia Soliz
DD Supervisor-South – Debra Burley
State Convention Chair: Jennifer Campbell
SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS
Parliamentarian – Laura Vacca
Golden State Tidings Editor – Karen Jones (Read Newsletters)
State Webmaster – Yvette Manard info@californiacatholicdaughters.org
State Store Onsite Sales – Irene Santos
CALIFORNIA STATE CDA LEADERSHIP PRAYER
Heavenly Father, we humbly come to You at this time to give You all glory, honor, and praise! We thank You for the abundance of blessings You bestow upon each one of us in every moment of every day! May we be obedient, disciplined, surrender of mind, body and soul allowing You to consume, transform, and lead us to You and each other. We pray Your will be done!
As Your CDA daughters, we pray unceasingly for Your intercession of our fellow CDA Sisters by edifying, promoting, encouraging, assisting, motivating, mentoring, inspiring, comforting, being compassionate, and most of all, loving each other unconditionally as You love us unconditionally. We commend and lift up all of our CDA Sisters to You, all those that we have been blessed to have already met and for those that we are yet to meet.
We invoke and enkindle the gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit: wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, fear of the Lord, patience, joy, faithfulness, love, self-control, gentleness, kindness, goodness, and peace. We ask that You strengthen our relationship with You, by being in relationship with each other. We ask that You empower us in being successful, that we thrive and become better versions of ourselves.
We pray that during difficult and trying times of disagreement, discord, defiance, and disrespect we pause and see You in each other knowing that we have all been created in Your image. We pray that we please You in being the daughters You would have us be and that we are slow to criticize and quick to apologize. We pray as Your soldiers, disciples, saints, advocates, and ambassadors on earth that we are aligned with You with courage, resilience, and tenacity! We pray that any and all miscommunications and misunderstandings become evident when we see through Your eyes, hear with Your ears, and love with Your heart!
We pray that we share our talents and gifts with each other and serve You by serving everyone we meet and each other as we fulfill and ignite our commitment to our CDA mission of Unity and Charity!
In the name our Your son, Jesus Christ! AMEN
Author: Ismaela Muniz Heiden, 2023-2025 State Leadership Chairman