Sue Ackert

Honored by her husband, Richard Ackert

Sue Ackert is a graduate of the University of Tampa and retired from a successful career in banking in 1999. Sue is past President of the Zonta Club of Fort Myers; member of the Advisory Board of Royal Palm Ministries Christian Counseling. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Lee Mental Health, the current Corresponding Secretary for the Green Thumb Garden Club, and a member of Town and Gown for FGCU.

She is a proud Christian member of McGregor Baptist Church and has served on the Women’s Council and has been a facilitator for the Women’s Ministry classes.

Sue believes passionately in the sanctity of marriage and family and for the past several years has been the Coordinator for McGregor Baptist Apples of Gold Ministry. The program equips older women to lovingly and supportively train younger women through biblical lessons and a weekly sharing of time together. Apples of Gold preserve traditional values. It rebuilds marriage relationships, offers insight on overwhelming parent-child relationships, and emphasizes the importance of spiritual development. Apples of Gold is building up mothers, marriages, and lives.

Sue gives back to our community, is reverent in the way she lives, loves her husband and family, and practices kindness and purity.

My Mother, Rachael, once said to me, “Son, you have married an Angel. ” Mom was right.