Feigel is a native Kentuckian from Harlan County in Southeastern Kentucky. She received her Bachelor's and Master's degrees from UK and met her husband, while they were both students there. Her husband is a native Lexingtonian and graduated from Lafayette High School. After they married in 1970, they made their home in Lexington. She taught school at Winburn Junior High and later owned a design business. Their two children were born in Lexington before their family was transferred to Connecticut with General Telephone in 1979.
In Connecticut, Feigel served as the President for the Council of PTA's in the Trumbull Independent School System and on the Connecticut PTA Legislative Committee. She also served on the Superintendent's Budget Advisory Committee and was appointed by the City to serve on the Trumbull 2000 Vision Study.
Her family attended the Trumbull United Methodist Church where she served as Sunday School Superintendent, served on the Staff-Parish Relations Committee and was Chairman of the annual fundraiser for many years. She and her husband were also members of the "Kentuckians of New York" club.
Feigel‘s family moved Colleyville, Texas in 1989. She became involved in local organizations and became President of the Grapevine-Colleyville Council of PTA's where she implemented a substance abuse prevention initiative called "Safe Homes" which was later adopted by the school district and is still in place. In 1991 Feigel was elected to the Colleyville City Council where she served for five years and was the first woman elected as Mayor in the City.
As a member of the City Council, she emphasized long range planning. She advocated a five-year financial plan, a comprehensive drainage plan, and a plan to finish an incomplete sewer system.
She served on the Transportation subcommittee for the North Central Texas MPO (Metropolitan Planning Organization) which reviewed projects for inclusion in their long-term plan. She was invited to present a workshop for the Texas Recreation and Parks Department's Annual Conference as a result of initiating a community-built, 10,000 square foot playground. In addition, she was instrumental in the construction of a premier soccer complex in Colleyville.
During her tenure the City was selected as the most desirable place to live in the greater Dallas area.
She has substantial council training in issues affecting municipal government including zoning law, finance, grant writing, etc. She also served as interim Executive Director for the Colleyville Area Chamber of Commerce and was a Board Member for the Dallas/Fort Worth University of Kentucky Alumni Association for ten years.
Cheryl and her husband retired to Lexington in 2001 where she became a licensed real estate agent. She served on the Cancer Society Board of Directors and currently serves on the Boards for the UK Sanders-Brown Center on Aging Foundation, Spindletop Hall and is a member of the legislative advocacy network for UK. They are members of the First United Methodist Church in Lexington.
Awards include an Honorary Life Membership in the Texas PTA in 1994 and being selected for a Centennial Laureate Award by the UK College of Human Environmental Sciences in 2007.
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