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The LBJ Women’s Campaign School and the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin are proud to announce Hope Osborn as the next Executive Director of the LBJ Women’s Campaign School. Osborn brings extensive experience in public policy, government affairs, and nonprofit leadership, along with a longstanding commitment to advancing women in political leadership.

In 1975, Lady Bird Johnson and Liz Carpenter hosted the largest international women's conference in the United States at The University of Texas at Austin's LBJ School of Public Affairs — the Women in Public Life Conference. To mark the 50th anniversary of this historic event, the LBJ Women's Campaign School will host the Women in Public Life Symposium: A Bipartisan Path Forward on Friday, Nov. 14, 2025 at the Lady Bird Johnson Auditorium in the LBJ Presidential Library at UT Austin.

The sixth incoming class at the LBJ Women’s Campaign school includes change-makers from across the country representing a wide range of political parties and ideologies, with plans to run for school board, city council, judge, state legislature, and Congress.

9 LBJWCS are on the ballot on November 5, 2024. They are running for railroad commissioner, state legislatures, city councils, school districts, and judge. The number of LBJWCS women candidates has doubled in this election cycle in contract to the nationwide decline in women running for office.

The LBJ Women's Campaign School kicked off its fifth cohort, welcoming 55 new change-makers to Austin for a three-day introduction including a conversation with Dasheika Ruffin, former senior staff on the Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton presidential campaigns. She urged her trainees to find their "why" when it came to running for office or managing a campaign for their candidate.

Kendall Webb said enrolling at Mercer University was a scary decision but the best one she ever made. The senior has developed her passions for history and political science over the past four years, and she plans to pursue a career in public history and politics.

Today, the LBJ Women's Campaign School announced the 59 leaders who will form its fifth incoming class. The LBJ Women's Campaign School is a nonpartisan, issue-neutral program that supports women in politics by training leaders who want to run for elected office or become campaign managers, regardless of political party. The program brings together top political experts from across the nation to lead an immersive training program on topics including media relations, public speaking, fundraising, grassroots organizing and more. The program kicks off in Austin May 30–June 1, with monthly virtual classes through November. Through the six-month program, these change-makers will gain an insider network, professional mentorship, and the skills they need to win.

Graduates of the LBJ Women's Campaign School gathered for an alumni summit on Feb. 12. Thirteen alumni from the program have already stepped up to run in 2024.

Since the inaugural class in 2020, The LBJ Women's Campaign School (LBJWCS) has trained nearly 250 leaders as candidates and campaign managers. Ten LBJWCS alumni are on the ballot in 2024. The Jane Nelson Institute for Women's Leadership at Texas Woman's University is providing 30 full-tuition LBJWCS scholarships to knock down socioeconomic barriers for Texas women in politics.

Shortly before the 2023 cohort convened, the LBJ Women’s Campaign School partnered with The Network and Punchbowl News to present "Women Challenging Washington" in Washington, DC on May 9.