Participants

Candace Straight

Co-Chair, Republican Majority for Choice

Candace Straight is the Co-Chair of the Republican Majority for Choice and a founder of the Wish List (Women in the Senate and the House). A life long Republican, Straight hopes that the Party will work to broaden its base to include individuals of differing opinions on social issues and to recruit, train and run more women and minorities for public office.

Candace Straight is also a private investor and investment-banking consultant specializing in the insurance industry. She serves on various corporate boards and is a former President of the Financial Women’s Association of NY.

Straight was appointed by Governor Thomas Kean to be a Trustee of the Public Employees Retirement System of the State of New Jersey and was the Co-Chair of Governor Christine Todd Whitman’s Budget Advisory Committee and a member of Governor Chris Christie’s Treasury Transition Team.

Appointed by Governor Whitman to the Board of the New Jersey Sports and Exposition,  Straight was Vice Chairman from 1996 to January 2003. Straight has also been nominated by Governor Christie to the Board of Governors of Rutgers University.  

Straight is a graduate of Bloomfield High School.  She received her B.A. from Wilson College and her M.B.A. from New York University.  In June 1994, Wilson College awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters to Straight.