Aug 03, 2022
Lee Varra-Nelson, District 5440 Governor

Lee joined Rotary as a member of the Rotary Club of Fort Collins Breakfast in 2003. 

She has served as the Director of Club Administration 2010 - 2012, President in 2013/14, The Rotary Foundation (TRF) Chair, 2015 to July 2020, and currently is serving as Membership Committee Chair.  In District 5440 Lee served as Assistant District Governor in 2015 and as the Foundation Annual Fund Chair 2016 / 2017. She is currently the District Membership Chair.  Lee is a Paul Harris Fellow since 2008, a member of the Bequest Society, a Level 1 Major Donor and a Benefactor of The Rotary Foundation. 

Lee’s career with Hewlett-Packard spanned over 35 years and crossed many business functional areas.  Lee left Hewlett-Packard to work as a Senior Technical Project Manager for Intrado, a company that supports and enhances the national 911 emergency system.  While working at Intrado, she led her project team to the first successful release of transmitting text messages to 911 dispatch centers. 

In her private consulting work, Lee has enjoyed working with major technology corporations and government agencies but her favorite work was a special project with NASA’s Director of the International Year of Astronomy. She has also donated her project management expertise to Rotary for major projects and conferences.


Lee completed her undergraduate work in education and sociology at the University of Northern Colorado and enjoyed playing collegiate Field Hockey for the Bears! She also attended Colorado State University, doing graduate work in Business Management.

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