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Cheryl Eliano

District 10 National Vice President, American Federation Of Government Employees

Cheryl Eliano is District 10, National Vice President of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), representing more 40,000 federal workers in Texas, New Mexico, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Panama.  Eliano was first elected to the position in May 2014 and was re-elected to three-year-terms in 2017 and 2020.

Eliano’s mission for District 10 is to provide exceptional leadership and service at all levels and locations for all those she serves.  In 1979, Eliano began working for the federal government as a commissary cashier in Munich, Germany.  She retired from federal employment in 2014.

Prior to being elected as the AFGE District 10, National Vice President, Eliano served as President of AFGE Local 1920 for more than 11 years.  She made history when she became the first female elected to serve a full-term as President.  She also was the first person to serve in three major functions as well:  secretary/treasurer, chief steward, and president.

Eliano scored numerous achievements during her time leading AFGE Local 1920, which represents Army civilians at Fort Hood, Texas.  She helped organize and lead employee rallies to oppose the Department of Defense’s National Security Personnel System and fought the contracting out of civilian positions on base.  She helped create a labor-management forum to address workplace issues proactively, helping to avoid costly and disruptive disciplinary actions, and also created a program to train employees and managers on workplace discrimination, employee assistance programs, and other personnel issues.  She also was instrumental in implementing alternative work schedules for Fort Hood employees.

She sits on the Executive Boards of the Texas Workforce Commission; the Texas AFL-CIO; the Texas Gulf Coast Area Labor Federation; and the Texas Labor-Management Conference.  She is a member of the Killeen Chamber of Commerce and currently serves as Chair of the AFGE National Executive Council’s Organizing committee.  Recently, she was elected as a Board Member of the AFL-CIO 2021.  

Eliano is the proud recipient of numerous awards honoring her commitment to the labor movement, including several leadership awards for maintaining labor-management partnerships and several certificates of achievements for conducting labor-management training at Fort Hood.  She also received a Humanitarian Award from the NAACP.  

A native of Brooklyn, New York, Eliano attended the New York City College of New York for her Nursing Degree. She also holds certifications from the University of Maryland, New Mexico State University, and Central Texas College of Killeen, Texas.  

Eliano is a licensed Evangelist Missionary at her church in Copperas Cove, Texas. Eliano lives in Nolanville, Texas, with her husband Perry.  They have five children and three grandchildren.

Parent Members

D.L.J.
Honorable Deborah Lee James (Chair)
Former Secretary, US Air Force
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Craig Albright
Craig Albright
Senior Finance Executive Xerox Corp (Former), Board Member & Executive Advisor
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A.A
Alex Alonso, Ph.D.
Chief Knowledge Officer Society for Human Resource Management
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J.A.
Joseph Anderson
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Tag Holdings, LLC
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D.B.
David Beitel
Chief Technology Officer, Zillow Group
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S.D
Sally Donnelly
Founding Partner, Pallas Advisors
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C.G.
Christopher S. Gopal, Ph.D.
Executive, Consultant, Author & Educator, Global Supply Chain & Operations
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L.H.
Linnie M. Haynesworth
Co-Chair, Defense Business Board, Former Vice President, Northrop Grumman; & Independent Board Director
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E.H.
Erin Hill, J.D.
Deputy Chief Auditor, BNY Mellon
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S.LN.
Suzanne Leopoldi-Nichols
Former Chief Global Business Solutions Officer, WPP’s Global Procurement
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J.M.
Jennifer McClure
Founder & CEO, Unbridled Talent, LLC
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O.M.
Oscar Munoz
Retired Chairman, President & CEO United Airlines
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L.S.
General Larry Spencer, US Air Force (Ret)
President, Armed Forces Benefit Association
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D.W.
David Van Slyke, Ph.D.
Dean, The Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs Syracuse University
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J.V.
General Joseph L. Votel, US Army (Ret)
Former Commander, US Central Command and US Special Operations Command
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D.W.
Honorable David M. Walker
Former Comptroller General of the United States
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J.W
General Johnnie Wilson, US Army (Ret)
Former Commanding General, US Army Materiel Command
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Robert Wolf
Robert Wolf
Founder, 32 Advisors
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S.Y
Safroadu "Saf" Yeboah-Amankwah
Senior VP & Chief Strategy Officer, Intel Corporation
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Subcommittee Members

A.B.
Anand Bahl, Chief Information Officer, Micron Technology, Inc.
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G.B
Greg Bowman, J.D., Chief Innovation Officer & Vice President of Corporate Development, Siemens Government Technologies, Inc.
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M.D.
Matthew Daniel, Principal of Talent Strategy, Guild Education
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M.K.
Marachel Knight, Senior Technology & Operations Executive AT&T (Former) and Board Director, Marvell Technology, Inc.
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Sarah Mineiro
Sarah Mineiro, Founder and CEO of Tanagra Enterprises
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E.R.
The Honorable Eric Rosenbach, Co-Director, Belfer Center for Science and Internal Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
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B.S.
Brig Gen Bernard Skoch, US Air Force (Ret), Chair of the Board, Air and Space Forces Association
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S.S.
Stan Soloway, President & CEO, Celero Strategies, LLC
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P.,Z.
Patricia J. Zarodkiewicz, President, PatZ Consulting, LLC
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