Lee Roupas - Chairman

Lee Roupas is the Chairman of the Cook County Republican Party, first elected in 2008 as the youngest county chairman in Illinois at age 25.  In March 2010 the Central Committee unanimously reelected Chairman Roupas to the post. 

 

His political background encompasses experience at a national, state, and local level.

In 2006, Lee ran successfully for Republican Committeeman in Palos Township, becoming the youngest elected suburban committeeman in Cook County on record. As a Republican Committeeman and County Chairman, Lee has been an outspoken leader against waste, corruption, and fiscal mismanagement.

Prior to his successful Committeeman election, Lee served as the Communications Assistant, then Director, for the Republican Party of Virginia as well as a Special Assistant to the Communications Director for the 55th Presidential Inaugural.

During the 2004 Presidential Elections, Lee served as a Surrogate Event Coordinator at the Republican National Committee in Washington, D.C. In this position, he organized rallies in key battleground states throughout the country for President George W. Bush and other top Republican surrogates. Earlier in this Presidential Election cycle, Lee served as the Assistant to the Communications Director of the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City.

Prior to working the 2004 election cycle, Lee was employed at the U.S. Department of the Interior in Secretary Gale Norton’s Immediate Office, where he worked on various initiatives of the Secretary.

Lee’s first political campaign was for U.S. Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, where he interned at the Hastert for Congress Campaign Committee in Batavia, Illinois. Following the campaign, Lee went on to the Speaker’s Office in Washington, DC.

Chairman Roupas has a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from The George Washington University and a Juris Doctorate from Loyola University Chicago School of Law, attaining membership into the Illinois Bar in May 2010.