by Michele Genthon | Jan 6, 2022 | Arts, Entertainment, and Media, Aviation and Space, Business and Economics, Contemporary Women, FIRST WOMEN, Politics and Government, Sports and Adventure
Most of us would prefer not to look back on 2021, myself included. On the bright side, however, there were more First Women in 2021. Here are just a few of my favorites: Kamala Harris Much is made of the fact that Kamala Harris is the First Black Woman to serve as...
![Eliza Lucas Pinckney [1722 – 1793] – First Woman Inducted into the South Carolina Business Hall of Fame](https://michelegenthon.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/ELIZA-LUCAS-PINCKNEY-e1591572418870.png)
by Michele Genthon | Jun 10, 2020 | Business and Economics, FIRST WOMEN
Independence is all I wish, and a little will make us that.[Eliza Lucas Pinckney, 1779] Eliza Lucas was 16 years old when she took over the management of her family’s three plantations in South Carolina. She had been dead for almost 200 years when she became the First...
by Michele Genthon | Jul 22, 2018 | Business and Economics, FIRST WOMEN
One of my favorite Northwest First Women is Stagecoach Mary, the First African-American Woman mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service. Mary was a slave born in Hickam County, Tennessee, where she lived for the first thirty years of her life. Her birth is not...
by Michele Genthon | Dec 5, 2017 | Arts, Entertainment, and Media, Business and Economics, FIRST WOMEN, Law and Law Enforcement, Religion, Sports and Adventure
Searching the airport magazine rack, on my way to Dallas, I spied a magazine with an intriguing promo on the first page. “Incredible Women” it shouted in letters only slightly smaller than the name of the magazine, Porter. I didn’t know the magazine (turns out it’s...
by Michele Genthon | Aug 22, 2017 | Business and Economics, FIRST WOMEN
As a struggling actress in a dinner theatre, Betsy Duke needed a second job. She got a part-time waitressing job but the dry cleaner where she applied didn’t hire her, so she settled for a part-time job as a teller at a local bank. And the rest of her life began. She...
by Michele Genthon | Jul 26, 2017 | Business and Economics, FIRST WOMEN
Within the last week, the Seattle Times included two articles about First Women in business. They highlight for me the importance of celebrating women’s achievements while placing their accomplishments in perspective. Laurie Stewart was the First Woman to lead a local...
