Ms. Laura Fitzsimmons Peters is a native New Yorker who worked for the Internal Revenue Service for 35 years and served in many positions, working her way up to Senior Manager. During her years of service she won several awards including Manager of the year and the Criminal Investigation Outstanding Trial Witness. In her collateral position as Combined Federal Campaign Chairperson, she won the Long Island United Way Chairman’s Award for raising the most money during the 1998 campaign. She was also nominated twice for the prestigious New York State Federal Executive Board’s Outstanding Executive award. Ms. Peters retired in 2009. She is no stranger to volunteer work, giving of her services over the years in many capacities. She has been a volunteer at ST. Charles hospital, where she was presented with the Volunteer of the Year award; worked with mentally challenged toddlers at the ST Paul and James preschool; was a Den mother, Class Mother and President of the local PTA. Ms. Peters was active with the local shelter for many years, collecting thousands of personal hygiene products to be dispersed to the homeless. She has recently been selected to sit on the board of the Home Owner’s Association for her complex. Ms. Peters lives in Florida with her husband Gary.