Ohio Lions MD13 - OH7

DG Lilane Fox

Lion Lilane Fox has been a member of the Pickerington Lions Club since 1995. She has served her club as President, Membership Chairman, Board Member and Treasurer. She has also ponsored 10 new members over the years.

Lion Lilane has served her District as Zone 4 Chair, Region 1 Chair on the GMT Committee, creating the District Membership Tool Kit which included an original orientation program and year-round Membership Campaign, and as Sight and Hearing Chair for 6 years, establishing a vision screening program for the District. She has also served as Cabinet Treasurer and taught at the
Leadership School for many years.

At the State Level, she chaired the State Sight and Hearing Committee for 6 years where she also founded the charitable arm of the Committee, the Ohio Lions Sight and Hearing Foundation, and served as its Chair until June 2020, and now as a Member-at-Large on the Board. She also served on the State GMT Committee for three years which oversees the District GMT chairs.

Lion Lilane was also honored to serve the Central Ohio Lions Eye Bank for nearly 6 years on the Operating Board with her last two years serving as Chair.

She has received 4 Presidential Certificates of Appreciation and a Presidential Leadership Award. She has also received the Council Chair’s Award of Excellence and two Council of Governors Merit Awards. She has received the Excellent President award three times and Excellent Treasurer four. Lion Lilane’s club has honored her with a Melvin Jones Fellowship, the Central Ohio Lions Eye Bank Helen Keller Award, Ohio Lions Foundation J. W. Brantner Founder’s Award, and a Knight for Sight. Lilane was most recently presented with a James Coffey Fellowship at the 2023 OH7 Convention.

Lilane currently works for the Ohio Department of Insurance, in their Product Regulation and Actuarial Services Division, and has worked in the insurance industry 30 years. She is also active in her church leadership, attending Peace Free Lutheran Church in Canal Winchester, Ohio.

Lilane and her husband, Lion Brian, have been married for 33 years, with two children, Stephanie and Tommy, and two pets, Molly, the spoiled Pomeranian, and Tiger, the three-legged wonder cat.

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