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Celebrating Our 2026 Cookie CEOs

Each year, we recognize our Cookie CEOs—the top five Girl Scout Cookie sellers in Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana! These outstanding entrepreneurs have taken their Cookie Program experience to the next level, demonstrating incredible goal setting, determination, people skills, and leadership along the way.

Congratulations to our 2026 Cookie CEOs:

  • Bristol
  • Giada
  • Violet
  • Elizabeth
  • Mabel

To celebrate their accomplishments, our Cookie CEOs came together for a special day focused on leadership, learning, and using their voices to make a difference.

At our Chicago Gathering Place, the Cookie CEOs met with council staff and GCNWI CEO Nancy Wright to learn more about how our council works. They also shared some of the challenges they see girls facing today and discussed ideas for how Girl Scouts can help create positive change.

Thanks to our valued vendor partner at Little Brownie Bakers for working with us to create an extra-special experience for our Cookie CEOs. They had the opportunity to learn from industry professionals, explore their creativity, and put their entrepreneurial skills into action. It was a memorable way to celebrate everything they accomplished during the Cookie Program and inspire them to continue thinking big about where their skills can take them next.

Congratulations to our Cookie CEOs, and thank you to everyone who helped make this special day possible!

Bristol’s Sweet Success: Selling 100,000 Girl Scout Cookie Boxes and Making a Difference, One Box at a Time

Every Girl Scout Cookie box sold creates opportunities for Girl Scouts to learn, grow, and thrive. Each box is packed with leadership and life skills. Take the power of one box and multiply that times 100,000 and just think about the difference cookie boxes can make in the world. For one Girl Scout, she was on a mission to do just that.

Meet Bristol, from Troop 75466, who, on March 20, 2024, sold her 100,000th cookie box over her seven years as a Girl Scout. As part of her thank you gift to the customer who purchased the 100,000th box, Bristol created a special basket containing Girl Scout Cookies, cookie rewards that Bristol had earned, and a handwritten thank you note. 

“I love being a Girl Scout because I love making the world a better place,” said Bristol. “I hand-deliver every box I sell, and I especially love hand-delivering to our hometown heroes.”

Bristol has been a trailblazer throughout her journey in Girl Scouts. She has been a Cookie CEO (top 5 cookie sellers in the council) each year she has been a Girl Scout. Every cookie season, Bristol raises her cookie goal and proves to herself that she can accomplish anything she sets her mind to.

So how did she sell 100,000 boxes?

With the support from her family, Bristol dedicates over 40 hours a week to reaching new customers. She spends 12 hours a day on Saturdays and Sundays at her cookie booth and reaches new customers by selling at high traffic truck stops providing the sweetest on-the-road snacks for travelers. With every cookie box sold, Bristol also takes time to engage with the customer and asks them if they would like to donate a box to hometown heroes.

From previous cookie season sales, Bristol and her troop used some of their proceeds to give back to the community. The troop funded the cost needed to provide a service dog for a veteran battling PTSD. We’re excited to see how Bristol and her troop plan to use their troop funds from this year!

Congratulations, Bristol, on this tremendous accomplishment. Way to Own Your Magic this cookie season.

Click here to view Bristol’s journey to 100,000 boxes covered by our local media outlets.