Milton Township Supervisor's Office

Elizabeth “Buffy” Higgins-Beard is an experienced leader of local, regional and national nonprofits.  She is a 40+ year DuPage County resident who grew up in Naperville and has resided in Wheaton for over 20 years raising her family. 

Buffy has a 25+ year career of helping others, leading teams to bring about change for families.  She has experience managing large budgets and facilities as well as bringing teams together to tackle seemingly irretractable problems. Whether in the inner city of Chicago, at a DuPage wide nonprofit People’s Resource Center, or most recently as CEO at a new national office of The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award USA, Buffy offers strategic leadership grounded in needs-based assessment, optimism, and movement towards an innovative vision of what can be. 

As a community volunteer, Buffy has offered leadership to Drake University National Alumni & Chapter Boards, Girl Scouts, Scouting America Three Fires & Pathway to Adventure Councils, Northwestern’s IRB at CDH & Alliance for Research in Chicagoland Communities, Unitarian Universalist Society of Geneva, DuPage Foundation’s Arts DuPage, and United Way’s Neighborhood Network led by WEGO. 

Higgins-Beard holds a Master’s of Public Health from University of Michigan and a Bachelor’s of Arts and Sciences from Drake University.