Sentences with phrase «became chairwoman»

Betsy DeVos became the chairwoman of several nonprofits that were consolidated to become the national powerhouse behind the movement: the American Federation for Children.

Around the same time, Janet Napolitano, then the Democratic governor of Arizona, became the chairwoman of the National Governors Association.

In 1985 she regained her seat on Belfast City Council, representing the «Pottinger» area and became chairwoman of East Belfast Unionist Association.

Zimet became its chairwoman this winter, and there's nothing in her history to suggest she's the type who would automatically do the governor's bidding.

«As Members of the New York Republican House delegation, we wholeheartedly endorse Maria Cino to become Chairwoman of the Republican National Committee.

Ms. Wiley is resigning to become the chairwoman of the Civilian Complaint Review Board.

Speaking on the Capitol Pressroom radio show, Ms. Stewart - Cousins praised her former colleague Cecelia Tkaczyk — an upstate Democrat who lost her bid for re-election to the State Senate last year — and indicated she sympathized the ex-legislator's efforts to become chairwoman of the party and remove the leadership the governor helped install.

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Indeed, the real beauty of the machine - learning platform will come in time, suggests Gore, who became Alice's president and chairwoman in December.

It was before Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen broke the customary sphinxlike silence of her office to observe that valuations in some tech categories have become «substantially stretched,» before the tech sector eclipsed financial services as the leading destination for elite business school graduates, and before tech money made over large swaths of New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Austin, and, of course, the entire San Francisco Bay Area, where one in five working adults is employed by a tech firm.

Federal Reserve Vice Chairwoman Janet Yellen signaled Thursday that no big changes would come to the central bank under her leadership if she becomes its next chief.

The aim of all the programs is to teach parents how to treat children positively, «and in so doing prevent child abuse,» said Anne Gormly, who was chairwoman of the board of Champions for Children when Mr. McEwen became executive director.

Sarah Brown established children's charity Theirworld and became the executive chairwoman of the Global Business Coalition for Education among other things.

Janet DiFiore, nominated to become New York's next chief judge, was the original chairwoman of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's much - maligned ethics commission.

Kate Browning (WFP - Shirley), chairwoman of the county legislature's public safety committee, said hiring more officers would reduce overtime and relieve the burden on current officers, whom she worries are becoming overworked.

Menin, who lost out in her 2013 bid to become Manhattan borough president, previously served as chairwoman of Community Board 1 in lower Manhattan, and helped lead efforts to revitalize downtown after the 9/11 attacks.

Cuomo, who lives in Westchester, picked the county's district attorney and his former JCOPE executive chairwoman, Janet DiFiore to become chief judge of the Court of Appeals, the state's highest court.

As the ranking Democrat on the Rules Committee, which determines when and how bills reach the House floor, she was made chairwoman after Pelosi became the first female House speaker in 2007.

[6] Shortly afterwards, she joined the Conservative Party, becoming Area Chairwoman 1995 — 97.

Ms. Barbizet will become vice chairwoman and will remain chief executive of the Artémis Group, the investment company founded by Mr. Pinault.

But then both of her parents got involved in local politics — her dad ran for office and her mom became the Democratic chairwoman of New Hartford in Oneida County, traveling to the 1976 Democratic convention as a delegate for Jimmy Carter.

Ritchie said she agreed to become deputy vice chairwoman of the Health Committee but did not ask for extra money or know she would receive a higher stipend than she would from serving as agriculture committee chairwoman.

As Ann Black, the chairwoman of Labour's National Executive Committee, announced the results of the fourth round of the contest and it became clear that Ed Miliband had won by the narrowest of margins (50.65 per cent compared to his brother David's 49.35 per cent), a collective sigh of relief rippled through the ranks of the Coalition.

In 1998 she was recruited from Helsinki University to become the founding chairwoman of the Department of Human Genetics at UCLA's medical school.

«This is partly about reducing carbon emissions, but it's also an air quality issue that has become very, very urgent,» said Kate Gordon, vice chairwoman for climate and sustainable urbanization at the Paulson Institute, the China - focused environmental policy think tank led by former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.

Donna C. Peterman, chairwoman of the Foundation for Investor Education and senior vice president of PNC Financial Services Group, talked with Education World about the foundation's mission, and how it is helping students become more financially literate.

Barbara Stymiest, a former banking executive, will become the company's new chairwoman.

We think it has something to do with the relaxed stance that the Federal Reserve has taken since Janet Yellen became the new chairwoman.

It's the next step in the process that becomes more difficult for veterinarians, said clinical pharmacist Sue Duran, RPh, MS, Ph.D., a fellow in the American Society of Health - System Pharmacists and the chairwoman of the board certification committee for the International College of Veterinary Pharmacy.

Senate Environment Chairwoman Barbara Boxer told Vitter that due to the high volume of emails received by the EPA administrator, it has become common practice for the agency head to create private email accounts — the practice was also followed by George W. Bush EPA chiefs Christine Todd Whitman and her deputies.

We are very excited about this partnership and look forward to having the ByteCoin community become LydianCoin participants», said Kamal Kaur, Chairwoman & CEO of DaVinci Marketing Cloud.

«Manufactured stone veneer isn't a brand new trend, but thanks to advancements in its development in recent years, it has become a more reliable project that can add considerable resale value to a home,» says Leslie Rouda Smith, 2016 chairwoman of the Texas Association of REALTORS ®.