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| Women Leaders M-P |
| Kent
Manahan |
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Senior News Anchor |
| New Jersey Network |
| 25 South Stockton Street |
| PO Box 777 |
| Trenton, NJ 08625 |
| Phone: (609)
530-5252 |
| Fax: (609)
633-2912 |
| Senior news anchor and documentary producer and host for NJ NETWORK State public television system, reports won five regional Emmy awards> Anchor of ‘NJN NEWS’ weekday evening NJ news which received 1996 Philadelphia region Emmy award for best newscast, also host, reporter on public affairs programs, documentaries, special reports, including ‘Breaking the Silence’, national call-in show on domestic violence and related documentary, ‘Domestic Violence: Faces of Fear’; also producer and reporter for ‘Broken Lives, Broken Hearts’, domestic violence program aired following Nicole Brown Simpson murder> 1992 winner of Philadelphia region Emmy award for hosting ‘New Jersey Personalities’> Co-chair with husband of fundraising campaign for NJ Battered Women's Shelter> Other awards include Melitta Benz Award for Women's Achievement, CALDWELL COLLEGE Presidential Award for broadcast achievements> Honorary doctorate 1993 KEAN UNIVERSITY; 1988 RICHARD STOCKTON COLLEGE OF NJ> Regent, SETON HALL UNIVERSITY, spokesperson for Literacy Volunteers of America in NJ> B.A. Dunbarton College (Washington, D.C.). |
| Ruth B.
Mandel, Ph.D. |
|
Director |
| Eagleton Institute of Politics |
| Rutgers University |
| New Brunswick, NJ 08903 |
| Phone: (732)
828-2210 x 228 |
| Fax: (732)
932-8815 |
| e-mail:
rmandel@rci.rutgers.edu |
| Appointed as of January 1995 to head Eagleton Institute of Politics at RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, center for teaching, research on politics, legislative process, also conducts Eagleton Poll on NJ public opinion> Previously Eagleton professor and director of Center for American Woman and Politics at Eagleton, first research and education organization on women and political participation established 1971> National spokesperson on women's leadership, politics, elections> Author of ‘In the Running:The New Woman Candidate’ (1983), executive producer of ‘Not One of the Boys’, 1984 film on women in politics> Co-directed national research program to study impact of women in public office; appointed 1990 as a faculty representative on Rutgers Presidential Search Committee> Appointed 1991 by President Bush, named vice chair 1993 by President Clinton of US Holocaust Memorial Commission; also serves on National Commission for the Renewal of American Democracy; National Council for Research on Women; editorial boards of Sign; Women in Politics> Joined Rutgers faculty 1971, prior positions at RIDER UNIVERSITY, University of Pittsburgh, University of Connecticut> Published books, articles on women and politics> Ph.D. (English-American Literature), M.A. University of Connecticut, B.A. Brooklyn College. |
|
Artistic Director |
| McCarter Theatre Company |
| 91 University Place |
| Princeton, NJ 08540 |
| Phone: (609)
682-9100 |
| Fax: (609)
497-0369 |
| Appointed 1989 as first woman to direct creative program of 60-year old McCarter Theatre> Accepted 1994 Tony Award on Theatre's behalf as outstanding regional theater in US> Author and director of ‘Having Our Say’, play debuted at McCarter, moved to Broadway, received Tony, Outer Critics Circle, and Drama Desk Award nominations for Best Play and Outstanding Director of a Play, also Hull-Warriner Award presented by Dramatists Guild> Newest play, ‘Greensboro: A Requiem’ world premiere at McCarter 1996> Debut on Broadway as both playwright and director of Execution of Justice, play based on assassination of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, which received Bay Area Theatre Critics Award, Playwriting Award from Women's Committee of Dramatists Guild, Burns Mantle Yearbook Best Play Citation, and Drama Desk nomination> Play, Still Life, premiered under her direction 1981, winning six Obie Awards, including Distinguished Playwrighting and Distinguished Direction> First play, Annulla, An Autobiography, premiered at Gutherie Theatre in Minneapolis, also produced at New Theatre of Brooklyn with Linda Hunt> Recipient of eighth annual Lee Reynolds Award from League of Professional Theatre Women/NY> Member of Dramatists Guild, elected to serve on its Counci> Collection of her plays, Testimonies: Five Plays, published by Theatre Communications Group. |
|
President |
| The McConnell Group |
| 449 Sergeantsville Road |
| Flemington, NJ 08822 |
| Phone: (908)
782-7852 |
| Fax: (908)
782-6907 |
| First woman to serve as Commissioner of NJ Department of Commerce and Economic Development appointed December 1991 by Governor JIM FLORIO as member of Cabinet and served through end of Florio term January 1994> Currently heads THE MCCONNELL GROUP lobbying and communications firm, consultant to various corporate, professional organizations> Previously 1981-91 president of NJ FOOD COUNCIL, lobbying, public relations association funded by major food industry interests, supermarket chains> Served as Democratic Assemblywoman from Hunterdon County 1977-81, gubernatorial candidate in 1981 Democratic primary> Past chair, NJ CENTER FOR NON-PROFIT CORPORATIONS, NJ Recycling Forum> Received woman of achievement award from Douglass College 1982, Virginia Apgar women's achievement award 1990> Prior to 1977 election to Assembly, served as director of NJ Division of Tax Appeals, previously on Washington, D.C. legislative staff of congressman from TN. |
| Toni
Morrison |
|
Robert
F. Goheen Professor of the Humanities |
| Princeton University |
| 110 Dickinson Hall |
| Princeton, NJ 08544 |
| Phone: (609)
258-1070 |
| Awarded 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature, best-selling novelist, and member of PRINCETON UNIVERSITY faculty since 1989> Also received 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Beloved; 1977 National Book Award for Song of Solomon; other novels include ‘Paradise’, ‘Jazz’, ‘Sula’, ‘The Bluest Eye’> B.A. from Howard University in Washington DC, master’s degree from Cornell University, began teaching career at Texas Southern University in Houston, in 1957 became instructor of English at Howard, resigned 1964 to become associate editor with Sinder Publishing Company, then transferred to Random House as a senoir editor in 1967, first novel, ‘The Bluest Eye’, published 1970> Named 1989 as Robert F. Goheen Professor of the Humanities at Princeton. |
| Marianne Espinosa Murphy, Esq. |
|
Tompkins, McGuire & Wachenfeld |
| Gateway 4 |
| Newark, NJ 07102 |
| Phone: (973)
622-3000 |
| Fax: (973)
623-7780 |
| Partner in TOMPKINS, MCGUIRE & WACHENFELD law firm> Former Superior Court Judge 1986-93, re-nomination in 1993 opposed by NJ State Senator John Dorsey, led to reform of NJ Senatorial courtesy privilege, factor in Dorsey defeat in re-election bid November 1993 by Senator GORDON MACINNES> Proposed by Senator MacInnes for re-nomination to Superior Court by Governor CHRISTINE TODD WHITMAN, but Governor failed to pursue nomination> Columnist for THE STAR-LEDGER> Appointed by Governor JAMES FLORIO to NJ Commissision to Study Divorce Laws> Former assistant counsel, PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE; deputy NJ attorney general; assistant US attorney; also served as law clerk to NJ Chief Justice Richard Hughes> Trustee, SAINT PETER’S COLLEGE> Married to MICHAEL MURPHY, former Morris County Prosecutor, 1997 Democratic primary candidate for Governor who placed third behind JAMES MCGREEVEY, ROBERT ANDREWS, and stepson of late former Governor and Chief Justice Richard Hughes. |
| Pamela
J. Popielarski |
|
President
and General Manager |
| Tropicana Casino & Entertainment Resort |
| Brighton Avenue & Boardwalk |
| Atlantic City, NJ 08401 |
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Phone: (609) 340-4000
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| Named to current position January 1998 at Tropicana> Began career as executive secretary to CEO, with Tropicana since it opened November 1981, worked way up through positions in local programs, director of retail marketing 1985-86; vice president of sales and marketing 1986-92; senior vice president of sales and marketing 1992-95; executive vice president and general manager-operations 1995-96; acting general manager 1996-97. |
| Myrtle
S. Potter |
|
President |
| U.S Cardiovascular/Metabolics
Division |
| Bristol-Myers Squibb |
| 777 Scudders Mills Road |
| PO Box 4500 |
| Princeton, NJ
08543-4500 |
| Phone: (609) 897-2000 |
| Fax: (609) 897-6788 |
| Named 2000 as head of Started career in marketing with healthcare division of Procter & Gamble, joined MERCK & CO. 1982 as sales representative, continued with Merck until accepting position 1996 with Bristol-Myers Squibb under Richard Lane, former boss at Merck who left to join Bristol-Myers Squibb prior year, named 2000 as president, Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease Group> Honored 2000 as 'Woman of Year' by national Healthcare Businesswoman's Association> B.A. University of Chicago> Resides in Bucks County, PA, husband general counsel to Provident Mutual Life Insurance Co.. |
| Deborah
T. Poritz |
|
Chief Justice |
| Richard J. Hughes Justice Building |
| 25 West Market Street |
| PO Box 970 |
| Trenton, NJ 08625 |
| Phone: (609)
292-4837 |
| First woman to serve as Chief Justice of NJ SUPREME COURT, sworn in July 10, 1996> Served since January 1994 as Attorney General in Governor Whitman's administration until appointment as Chief Justice following resignation, later death from cancer of Chief Justice Robert Wilentz> Worked as summer law clerk with NJ DEPARTMENT OF LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY 1976, later named deputy attorney general following admission to bar and graduation 1977 from University of Pennsylvania Law School> Appointed assistant chief of environmental protection section 1981; deputy attorney general in charge of appeals 1982> Served 1984-85 also as chief of Banking, Insurance and Public Securities Section; 1985-89 as assistant attorney general and director of Division of Law> Named by Governor THOMAS H. KEAN as chief counsel to Governor February 1989, served through end of Kean term January 1990> Practiced law as partner in JAMIESON, MOORE, PESKIN & SPICER law firm from 1990 until resigning to accept Cabinet post January 1994> College instructor in composition and literature at Ursinus College 1967-70> Husband a mathematician at PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, cousin of Warren Rudman, former US Senator from New Hampshire> B.A. Brooklyn College 1958, studied English and American literature on Woodrow Wilson fellowship 1958-59, graduate study in literature at Brandeis University 1959-62. |
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