Cheryl Matheis

Cheryl Matheisis Senior Principal and Counsel in AARP State and National Group. In this role, she advises AARP executive management on key issues relating to social impact objectives, based on her expertise, extensive history in AARP and her broad range of external relationships.

Previously, she was Senior Vice-President in AARP Policy, Strategy, and International Affairs. Her department guided AARP's overall efforts to achieve quality, affordable health care for all Americans, to allow people to receive long-term services in the settings they prefer, and to improve health status.

Ms. Matheis was the Director of State Affairs for AARP from 1999 to 2004. In that position, she led AARP's national program of state governmental advocacy, overseeing a 20-person office that guided the activities of AARPs 53 state and territorial offices.