by Michele Genthon | Jul 16, 2014 | FIRST WOMEN, Law and Law Enforcement
Seattle recently hired its First Woman police chief, Kathleen O’Toole. She steps into a quagmire as the police department has been investigated by the Justice Department and placed under a federal consent decree for use of excessive force and biased policing. A...
by Michele Genthon | Jun 16, 2014 | FIRST WOMEN, Law and Law Enforcement
Another of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world in 2014 was Mary Jo White, head of the Securities and Exchange Commission. She is on the First Woman To. . . list because she was the first woman to serve as a U.S. Attorney in Manhattan. In...
by Michele Genthon | Jun 1, 2014 | Business and Economics, FIRST WOMEN, Law and Law Enforcement
Time magazine recently published its annual listing of the 100 Most Influential People and a number of the American women were First Women To. . . –Janet Yellen, first woman to head the Federal Reserve System. The article about her was written by Christine...
by Michele Genthon | Dec 16, 2013 | Arts, Entertainment, and Media, Business and Economics, Education and STEM, FIRST WOMEN, Law and Law Enforcement, Military and Crusaders, Politics and Government, Sports and Adventure
I received the lovely grace of being able to spend the fall in Southern Europe. I enjoyed the quality of life and the freedom from the usual daily responsibilities, but I missed out on being in touch with the news from the United States. When I returned to a pile of...
by Michele Genthon | Oct 14, 2013 | FIRST WOMEN, Law and Law Enforcement
Sandra Day O’Connor said, “It’s great to be the first, but you don’t want to be the last.” We are all formed by our families, but that formation is rarely as publicly evident as with...
