Joseph E. Gadbois, ACS, FLMI - Director, National Fraternal Congress of America


Joseph Gadbois is currently Vice President - Corporate Marketing and Fraternal Services for Catholic Family Life Insurance (CFLI), Milwaukee, Wis. In this position, he oversees branding and image development as well as fraternal operations and chapter network of the nation’s oldest Catholic fraternal benefit society. He also serves as a Trustee of the Catholic Family Life Education Foundation. Gadbois was Vice President of Fraternal Services from 1996 to 2006, and before that he was Assistant Vice President of Fraternal Activities of the New England operations of the society in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. He had been the Vice President of Communications for Union Saint-Jean-Baptiste, prior to its 1991 merger with CFLI.

Gadbois has a BA in English from College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass.; and a MS in Journalism with a major in advertising from the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. During his fraternal career, he also served as a visiting professor of communications at Emmanuel College in Boston and as an account executive for an advertising firm.

Gadbois was elected to fill a three-year term on the Board of Directors of the National Fraternal Congress of America (NFCA) in September 2007. He is a past president of the NFCA Fraternal and Communications Sections, and Past Chair of the former Public Relations and Convention Publicity committees. He also served as past chair of the Marshal Program. He holds the distinction of being past president of both the Wisconsin and New England Fraternal Congresses.

Gadbois and his wife, Helen-Anne Priske-Gadbois, live in Milwaukee, where Gadbois serves in many leadership positions at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist and was Charter Secretary for Shorewood Business Improvement District. Their son, Jonathan, attends the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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