Linda Post Bushkofsky is executive director of Women of the ELCA. Once a congregational unit president and member of a synodical women’s organization board, Linda had also been a workshop leader and regular contributor to Lutheran Woman Today magazine before assuming this post in August 2002.

As a young girl, Linda couldn’t settle on just one thing to be when growing up. She wanted to do it all, and her professional background today reflects that. Linda has been an attorney, a teacher, an administrator, a writer, and an editor. Her personal interests are just as eclectic. She's an organic gardener, specializing in herbs. She’s a quilter who also loves to read and make music. Her passions center on peace, justice, and holistic living.

Bushkofsky earned a bachelor’s degree magna cum laude in political science and English at Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, in 1981. She received a juris doctor degree magna cum laude at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 1984 where she served as a Mellon Teaching Fellow. A native of Pennsylvania, Bushkofsky also lived in Minnesota and now calls Illinois home.

She is married to the Rev. Dennis L. Bushkofsky, an ELCA pastor and interim ministry specialist originally from Iowa. They have one child, Judy. They are members of Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church in Arlington Heights, Illinois, where Linda is a member of the Thursday evening circle of Women of the ELCA.