Diana Hagee

Diana Hagee serves as Co-Executive Director of Christians United for Israel alongside her son Matt Hagee and the organization's executive leadership team, and as a long-standing member of the Cornerstone Church family and pastoral leadership in San Antonio. The daughter-in-law of CUFI founder John Hagee, Diana Hagee has been a central figure in the operational leadership of the organization for years and represents the institutionalization of the Hagee family's vision for evangelical Christian engagement with Israel beyond any single founder's biography.

CUFI's grassroots operation — which Diana Hagee has been instrumental in building and managing — is what distinguishes the organization from a Washington lobby. With more than 10 million members organized across all 50 states, CUFI conducts year-round programming in churches, community centers, and college campuses that produces the base-level evangelical Christian engagement with Israel advocacy. The annual CUFI Washington Summit brings thousands of members to Capitol Hill for direct constituent contact with their members of Congress — the kind of constituent pressure that, unlike donor conversations, reaches lawmakers regardless of their financial constituency. The logistics and pastoral credibility required to mobilize that volume of evangelical Christian participation requires deep church community relationships of exactly the kind Diana Hagee has cultivated through decades of ministry involvement.

Her role has become more visible as CUFI has navigated the succession from John Hagee's founding generation to the institutional leadership required to sustain a 10-million-member organization across decades. The combination of family continuity and operational management she provides gives CUFI a stability that pure political advocacy organizations lack: CUFI is embedded in evangelical Christian community life in ways that make it resilient to political cycles. At Rank 33, Diana Hagee represents the pastoral and organizational infrastructure behind one of the most powerful pro-Israel grassroots operations in American political history.