Susan Lilly is the President and CEO of Lilly & Company and widely recognized as one the state’s top fundraising and strategy consultants. At age 24, Susan started her own firm, Lilly & Company, a consulting firm offering advice to clients on political affairs, grassroots organizing and advocacy and fundraising.

“My parents recruited the first Republican county chairmen in many of the counties throughout East Texas. They were integral in changing East Texas and the entire state from the one party domination it was under for decades.

My interest in politics stemmed from my parents and particularly my Dad, who got involved with Reagan in 1976. My Dad served on the State Republican Executive Committee when we elected the first Republican Governor since Reconstruction, Bill Clements.”