Merja Helen Kokkonen Lehtinen

Background

Lehtinen, Merja Helen Kokkonen was born on February 25, 1954 in New York, United States. Daughter of Osmo Ilmari and Hilkka Annikki (Kokkonen-Lind) Lehtinen.

Education

Bachelor of Arts in American Studies, Mount Holyoke College, 1976; student, Dartmouth College, 1975; certified in Finnish and Scandinavian, U. Helsinki, 1978.

Career

Associate technical writer, The Travelers Insurance Company, Hartford managing editor, American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air Conditioning Engineers, New York international editor, American Society of Civil Engineers, New York director publications, American Association Engineering, New York managing editor, Bill Communications, Inc., New York news editor, McGraw Hill County, New York executive editor, Managing Automation Magazine, New York editor-in-chief, public Industrial Computing Magazine, Kruger, McCarthy & Lehtinen, New York, 1987-1993; founder, president, Westisle Public Company, Westford, Massachusetts, 1993; owner, public, Discover Connecticut Magazine and The Connecticut Chronicles, since 1993. United States of America developer Field Comm. United States of America, Angel, Angel Business Comm., London, 1996;intern for Sen.

Strom Thurmond United States Senate, Washington, 1973. Director career guidance American Association Engineering Sciences, New York, 1983-1984. Commissioner Economics Development communications of Colchester, Connecticut, 1992-1996, hearing officer, since 1994.

Board directors Industrial Computing Society, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 1993-1995.

Achievements

• Merja Helen Kokkonen Lehtinen has been listed as a noteworthy Journalist, researcher, publisher by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Vice chairman Republican Town Committee, 1993-1996. Republican candidate for nomination to the United States Congress 2d district, 1992. Hearing officer Justice of the Peace, Colchester, Connecticut, since 1996.

Board incorporators Eliza Huntington Memorial Home, Inc., since 1993, board directors, fundreaising chairman. Co-chair International Conference on Industrial Computing, Toronto, 1992. Management consultant, writer, director LymeArt Association, Old Lyme, Connecticut, since 1997.

Appointed guardian Supreme Court StateN.Y. Member Instrument Society American, Industrial Computing Society (founder, member board directors 1993-1995).

Connections

Father:

Osmo Ilmari Lehtinen

Mother:

Hilkka Annikki (Kokkonen-Lind) Lehtinen