A Junior member is a DAR member age eighteen through thirty-five years of age (until her thirty-sixth birthday). She holds full membership in the National Society, state society, and chapter, and when qualified may serve as an officer and chair at any level. She is automatically a member of the National Junior Membership Committee, may purchase a Junior pin from Hamilton Insignia to wear on the official DAR ribbon, and may serve as a page at national and state events.

The Junior Membership Committee was established in 1937. Its goals are:

• to gain new Junior members and build a well-informed Junior membership;
• to encourage active participation by these young women in all phases of DAR service;
• and to support the Junior Membership Committee’s official fundraising project, the Helen Pouch Memorial Fund

Every chapter and state society appoints a Junior Membership chair. The national chair guides the work of the committee by working closely with the President General and national vice chairs, developing a three-year theme, publishing the Summer and Spring Junior Packets, overseeing financial transactions, answering correspondence, speaking when invited by states and chapters, and reporting to the National Chairmen’s Forum and Continental Congress.