Catherine Hanaway is Missouri’s New Attorney General
Gov. Mike Kehoe has named Catherine Hanaway to replace Andrew Bailey as Missouri’s new attorney general. Bailey is leaving after the Trump administration chose him to become the co-deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Hanaway is a partner in the Clayton office of law firm Husch Blackwell LLP and former U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, along with formerly serving as the Republican speaker of the Missouri House. Last year, she completed a term chairing the Kansas City-based law firm, the first woman to hold that post. Catherine has been a member of IWF-MO since 2007.
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MARIA BRIGGS serves as Vice President at UBS Financial Services, where she holds the prestigious CFP and CIMA designations.
GLORIA CARTER-HICKS has built an award-winning, full-service performance improvement company, H-C-H, that works closely with clients to boost their organizational performance and achieve better outcomes.
LESLIE GILL, President and CEO of Rung for Women, a nonprofit organization that helps women find or transition career paths.
JULIE MURPHY is the Managing Principal and Strategic Partner, JFM Strategies and KBS Group, a bi-partisan public affairs firm founded by former Governor and Senator Kit Bond.
UTE RAJATHURAI currently heads Procurement for Bayer Crop Science Product Supply, overseeing $13B in spending with a global team of 170 employees.
LUCIA LOHMANN, President of the Missouri Botanical Garden is the first woman to hold the position. She was also installed as the George Engelmann Professor of Botany at Washington University.
LORI SETTON, Lucy & Stanley Lopata Distinguished Professor, heads the Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME), which has 21 full-time tenure-track, outstanding faculty members throughout the McKelvey Engineering and the School of Medicine.
KRISTEN SLAUGHTER, President and CEO, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Missouri, leads a dynamic and committed team of caring professionals. The organization has received the #1 Quality Award from Big Brothers Big Sisters of America for the past 10+ years.
Judge Russell accepts Sandra Day O’Connor Award
When Missouri Supreme Court Judge MARY RHODES RUSSELL stepped onto the stage in Minnesota to accept the Sandra Day O’Connor Award, the National Judicial College’s highest honor, she carried with her more than a distinguished résumé. She carried decades of relationships, road miles, handwritten columns, and quiet moments spent listening in courthouse hallways. The award, named for one of America’s great champions of civic education, seemed almost destined for her. Judge Russell has twice served as Chief Justice of Missouri’s highest court, guiding the judiciary through years of change with a signature mix of curiosity, innovation, and warmth. But if you ask her what truly drives her, she won’t point to her opinions or administrative decisions. Instead, she talks about people, how they connect, how they disagree, how they find common ground.
“I cannot think of anyone else, not just in Missouri but anywhere, who more closely manifests the spirit of civic education than Judge Russell,” wrote Judge Kelly C. Broniec when nominating her. “It permeates almost everything she does.”
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IWF Cornerstone Conference in Cape Town, South Africa
GAYLE JACKSON and BETTIE SCHWARTZ has a fabulous time at the Cornerstone Conference in Cape Town! The South Africa Chapter of the IWF wasted no time before strutting their stuff. In the Opening Session, they knocked the ball out of the park by presenting South Africa’s President, Cyril Remaphosa, in person as the keynote speaker. made a deep favorable impression on the 500 Conference Attendees from 30 countries with his articulate and nuanced remarks about the resources, opportunities and challenges facing the African Continent and the notable contributions of women leaders tackling those challenges.
Food security, the world economic outlook and their import for Africa were topics that were front and center. The speaker commentaries and hall conversations about the importance of improving traditional African crops and foods made these St Louisans acutely aware and proud of the relevance of the research and work of St. Louis’s own Danforth Plant Science Center.
Other speakers included the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the Special Adviser for Addressing Racism in the Workplace for the United Nations, who is also Chancellor of the University of Venda in South Africa and an Economic Advisor to President Cyril Ramaphosa.
Speaking of music and musicians, the Plenary Sessions were interlaced with performances by spectacular, throbbing drumming, dancing and vocalizing ensembles that brought many in the audience to their feet clapping, stamping and dancing irresistibly along with the artists.
The Dine Arounds took their place on a pedestal offering special, intimate gatherings to get to know 10 – 14 of our fellow attendees up close and personal in elegant, cultivated settings in homes, museums and art galleries.
The Gala Dinner & Celebration honored Mrs. Zanele Mbeki, Founder of the Women’s Development Bank and Former First Lady of South Africa; Mrs. Sophie Williams-De Bruyn, Former South African Anti-Apartheid Activist; and Her Royal Majesty, Queen Mother Semane Bonolo Molotlegi, Queen Mother of the Royal Bafokeng Nation. The Gala was billed as going until 11:59 pm, but when this attendee left at 11:50 pm the music and dancing were still going strong!