Lynn Teague

Lynn Shuler Teague was born in Orangeburg SC, grew up in Columbia, and moved to New Mexico at the time of her marriage to George Teague in 1968. She continued her education in archaeology in New Mexico and Arizona and served on the faculty of the Arizona State Museum at the University of Arizona until 2002. She was Director of the Museum’s Cultural Resource Management Division and later was Coordinator of Arizona’s repatriation laws protecting Native American and other burials and sacred objects. She has published extensively on Southwestern prehistory and on protection of Native American burials, sacred objects, and cultural patrimony. 

Lynn and her husband returned to South Carolina at the time of their retirement. Since 2012 she has represented the League of Women Voters of South Carolina at the State House. In her capacity as a volunteer lobbyist she has worked on issues related to her longstanding interest in a more just society. This has included advocacy on redistricting, voting rights and elections, ethics, reproductive rights, utility regulation, and other issues of concern to the League. 

Her hobbies include handspinning, handweaving, and South Carolina local and family history.