Susan Elder has been a sitter and raiser for OccuPaws since 2019.  She was elected to the Board of Directors in 2023 and elected Secretary in 2024.  Susan retired in 2022 from Mirus Bio, a biotech company in Madison, after a 12-year tenure where she worked in Quality and Production.  She also had 17-year career in the food and pharma industries.  She earned her BS in Bacteriology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Susan’s volunteers at her faith community.  Her husband and she live in Madison and have two grown children.  She enjoys attending UW sports events and traveling in her spare time.