Cindy Woodman has provided outstanding service to the Lake County Fair for over 25 years. Since the time of her election as a director in 1995, Cindy has been an enabler and innovator on the Lake County Fair Board and her hard work, out-of-the-box thinking and countless contributions have helped the Lake County Fair to keep going and growing.

Cindy had a very active 4-H career as a youth where she was heavily involved in Saddle Horse. Following that, she dedicated her adult life to raising her daughters Samantha and Stephanie, to successfully operating her concession business (The Pony Express) and to giving service to the Lake County Fair. Cindy served as Fair Board Vice-President, as the Fair’s Concession Manager for the past fifteen-years. She has actively participated on the board’s Advertising, Audit, Concessions, Finance, Gates, Historical, Horse, Marketing and Rent committees over the years.

Cindy Woodman is a broad thinker and a visionary. Her creativity has led to the fair adding a number of popular exhibits such as the Mini-horses and the Donkey and Mule display. With Cindy’s hard work and through her management and guidance as rent committee chair, Lake County’s non-fair rentals have grown to a point where their non-fair revenue position is one of the highest in the state. Cindy also drove the band wagon on changes in the concession and ticket areas which have led to continual growth of fair-time revenues and which have resulted in record profits over the past three fairs. While serving as Saddle Horse Chair, she brought in such popular events as cutting and roping which included a celebrity class of local public and elected officials, a very large and highly competitive open show and a locally designed and operated Wonderful World of Horses event which educated the public on different breeds of horses and their characteristics. Cindy was also instrumental in bringing nondenominational Sunday church services to the show ring through her membership and involvement in the Life-Brand Cowboy Church.

Cindy is a very successful business woman and she continually shares her business acumen with the Fair Board through her input on the annual budget and in consideration of capital improvements. She is someone who also keeps a keen eye on expenses and always kept an eye out for cost containment when she served on the internal audit committee.

Cindy is a regular participant in the Ohio Fair Managers Association District Nine Round Tables, and she is an active member of the Greater Ohio Showmen’s Association which keeps her up to date with the concessions and rides business.

Cindy is a true friend of all fairs and she is someone who talks the talk and walks the walk for Ohio’s fair industry and for the Lake County Fair. For all these reasons and more, Cindy Woodman is a deserving nominee to the Lake County Fair Hall of Fame.