About Nancy

Nancy Schaefer
President of Eagle Forum of Georgia

Nancy Schaefer, President of Eagle Forum of Georgia, Inc., National Chairman for Parents' Rights, is a former State Senator of Georgia. She was also Founder and President of Family Concerns, Inc. (1985-2008) a non-profit organization located in Georgia. Family Concerns was created for the purpose of strengthening and protecting the family through local, state, national and international policy, and through the education of citizens and leaders in the vital importance of obeying God's moral law in our society and in our culture. Nancy Schaefer was the Founder and President of two Pro-life Family Concerns Pregnancy Centers in Atlanta, Georgia from 1988-1998, which met the needs of over 5000 girls and women in Atlanta and beyond.

Mrs. Schaefer has been a host of several radio shows in the Atlanta area and the author of daily commentaries over WRAF, WEPC, and WTFH in Toccoa, Georgia.

Mrs. Schaefer was the Republican Nominee for Lt. Governor in 1994 and the first woman Candidate for Governor of Georgia in 1998, and was elected to the Georgia State Senate from the 50th District in 2004.

As an eight year Trustee of the National Ethics and Religions Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), Mrs. Schaefer represented Family Concerns and the SBC at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China, at the U.N. Conference on Human Settlements in Istanbul, Turkey, at the U.N. Conference on Food in Rome, Italy, and the U.N. follow up Conference to Beijing in New York. Recently she spoke at the World Congress of Families V in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on "The Unlimited Power of Child Protective Services." Mrs. Schaefer also carried the same message to the Nordic Community on Human Rights in Sweden.

She is a former First Vice President of the Georgia Baptist Convention, a frequent speaker to churches of all denominations, a speaker to civic and political organizations, and a frequent guest on radio and television programs. In 2001, Mrs. Schaefer became the first woman Trustee to serve on the Toccoa Falls College Board in Toccoa, Georgia. She and her husband are members of Ebenezer Baptist Church of Toccoa.

Mrs. Schaefer is married to Bruce Schaefer, and they are parents of four sons and one daughter. They also have 13 grandchildren. Nancy and Bruce live in Habersham County, Georgia.

"I am only one, but I am one.
I cannot do everything,
but I can do something;
And what I can do,
that I ought to do,
by the grace of God I shall do."

Edward Everett Hale,
Former Chaplain of the United States Senate