Nancy Freudenthal
Nancy Freudenthal was born and raised in Cody, Wyoming and earned both a bachelor’s degree and a juris doctorate from the University of Wyoming. She served under former Wyoming Governors Ed Herschler and Mike Sullivan and joined the law firm of Davis & Cannon in 1995. She has continued practicing in the firm’s Cheyenne office while serving as Wyoming’s first lady.
Nancy is a co-chair for a nationwide initiative known as Leadership to
Keep Children Alcohol Free. The Leadership is a collaboration of almost
70 current and emeritus spouses of governors working together in a
nonpartisan effort to increase public awareness, engage policymakers,
and mobilize action to stop childhood drinking. She also serves as the President of the Leadership to Keep Children Alcohol Free Foundation.
In 2009 Mrs. Freudenthal became a Trustee of WESTAF (the Western States
Arts Federation,)a nonprofit arts service organization dedicated to the
creative advancement and preservation of the arts.
She also serves on the University of Wyoming Art Museum National
Advisory Board, whose mission is to promote education, awareness and
understanding of the visual arts and its impact on our culture to
students, residents, and visitors of Wyoming.
Nancy has long championed other issues important to Wyoming families.
She works with and participates in the annual Governor’s Roundtable on
Children and Families; the annual National Scholastic Read; the annual
Governor’s Capitol Art Show and Sale; the Susan G. Komen Foundation
Race for the Cure; and is on the Advisory Board for the Family Economic
Self Sufficiency Project.
The Freudenthals have four grown children: Don, Hillary, Bret and
Katie.