Lynnie Meyer, MSN, R.N.
Chief Development Officer
Lynnie Meyer was promoted to chief development officer of Norton Healthcare in 2006 after serving as vice president since 2004. She also serves as executive director of the Children’s Hospital Foundation and the Norton Healthcare Foundation. The foundations support the needs of Kosair Children’s Hospital and the adult-service hospitals of Norton Healthcare. Under her leadership, in 2007, the foundations generated more than $14 million in support of Norton Healthcare’s mission.
Prior to joining Norton Healthcare, Meyer served as president and CEO of The Center for Women and Families in Louisville, where she successfully led a $12.5 million fundraising campaign. While she was president and CEO, the center won the Annie E. Casey Foundation Families Count Award and secured a prestigious Kresge Foundation Challenge grant. Meyer has held positions with Caritas Health Services, U of L Hospital, Care Tenders and The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She holds a bachelor’s degree in nursing and a master’s degree in nursing administration from Bellarmine University and is a graduate of Leadership Louisville, Bingham Fellows and Leadership Kentucky.
In 2008, Meyer was selected as one of 20 nurses in the nation to participate in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellows Program, an advanced leadership experience for nurses in senior executive roles. She has been inducted into the Bellarmine University Gallery of Distinguished Graduates, named a Business First Forty Under 40 honoree, named by the Shakertown Roundtable as one of 40 Kentucky Leaders for the New Century and received numerous awards, including the Center for Nonprofit Excellence Art of Leadership Award, the National Conference for Community and Justice Humanitarian Award and the Presentation Academy Tower Award.
Meyer is actively involved in the Archdiocese of Louisville Sexual Abuse Review Board, National League of Nursing Foundation for Nursing Education board and Louisville Science Center board of directors.