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Woodmere’s Ann Schockett named Executive Leader of the Year
Through a varied professional career that includes being the president of a cable television production company to her current position as director of print media for the Nassau County Police Department, Ann Salpeter Schockett has always been interested in politics.
From studying politics in college at Sarah Lawrence College to becoming a district leader in Queens in 1980, then a state committeeperson and last August head of the Woodmere Republican Club, Schockett, 58, a 1970 graduate of Lawrence Woodmere Academy, has found it stimulating.
“I always found it fascinating,” said Schockett as she sat on a chair out from behind her desk at the Woodmere GOP’s office on Broadway. “You do good for someone, it opens doors to help other people.”
She admitted there are plenty of battles to be fought and you have to go fighting, but that’s how you get things done. “It’s a hard job, it’s a fun job,” she said about her current post as Woodmere leader. “It occupies a lot of time. It’s not a no show job.”
And because of the fire in her belly that she carries, the Nassau Young Republicans named Schockett its, “Executive Leader of the Year.” The first Five Towns GOP leader receive this award. She will be honored, along with County Executive Ed Mangano, “Excellence in Leadership Award” and Young Republican State Chairwoman Lynn Krogh, “YR of the Year” at the Milleridge Cottage on June 28.
“Ann Schockett has distinguished herself above and beyond,” said YR President Brian Hayes. “”She was selected —unanimously — not only for her tireless dedication and work for our communities and state over the past three decades but especially for her interest in advocating and sponsoring the talent of young adults.”
Schockett grew up in Rockaway and remembers when children just went outside and played games. That interest carried through college as she earned a master’s children theater and music from Sarah Lawrence and was part of an improvisational group, “The Paper Bag Players,” that performed for children and was later a director of a performing arts school that boasted 300 students and classes in music, ballet and photography.
