Sentences with phrase «first woman chief»

And here, Weinman gives us a bit more insight into the thinking of Judge Cote — who in 1991 became the first woman Chief of the Criminal Division in the U.S. Attorney's Office (Southern District of New York).

The bar association traditionally rates candidates for the Court of Appeals chosen by the state's Commission on Judicial Nomination, which is headed by the state's first woman chief judge, former Judge Judith Kaye.

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• Speaking of Time's Up... Attorney Tina Tchen, who Bloomberg describes as «arguably the most well - connected person working in women's rights today, thanks to her six years as an assistant to President Barack Obama and as first lady Michelle Obama's chief of staff,» talks about why it was so important that Time's Up include a legal defense fund: «The fastest way to make sure that someone isn't getting bullied by a lawyer for someone rich and powerful is to make sure that person has a lawyer, too.»

In a survey conducted by the U.S. Women's Chamber of Commerce in the first half of fiscal 2012, which began October 1, 2011, 71 contracts worth $ 3 million were awarded to women - owned firms, says Margot Dorfman, the group's chief execuWomen's Chamber of Commerce in the first half of fiscal 2012, which began October 1, 2011, 71 contracts worth $ 3 million were awarded to women - owned firms, says Margot Dorfman, the group's chief execuwomen - owned firms, says Margot Dorfman, the group's chief executive.

Freezing their eggs gives women an option to focus on their career or education first, the «leaning in» that Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg champions.

With a focus on water stewardship and women's economic empowerment, Perez has served as Coca - Cola's first chief sustainability officer since 2011.

Sylvia Earle, the first woman to become chief scientist of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, didn't set out to be a trailblazer.

Irving also made some substantive changes within the company, including hiring Elissa Murphy as chief technical officer, the first woman to hold that position at GoDaddy.

Another woman steeped in the issue is Megan Smith, the first female US Chief Technology Officer (CTO), who says, «So many Americans have the grit and creativity of a world - class entrepreneur, but they lack the resources — mentorship, networking, funding, training — to bring their ideas to fruition.»

Emanuel, 51, the former chief of staff to President Barack Obama, is competing against rivals who include two Hispanics — Gery Chico, a former Daley chief of staff, and City Clerk Miguel del Valle — and Carol Moseley Braun, who was the first black woman elected to the Senate.

In a time when women were discouraged from studying math and science, Nancy Grace Roman became a research astronomer and the first Chief of Astronomy at NASA.

Beneath all the pathos, the subtext remains the same: Woman's chief adversary is Unreliable Man, who does not understand her sexual and romantic needs and who walks off time and again at the first sashay of a younger thing.

They seem to reverse the first question in the catechism I studied as a child, declaring that «the chief end of God is to glorify men and women, and to enjoy them forever.»

There are African Americans, Hispanics, women preachers, apocalyptic seers, lobbyists, missiologists, postmodernists, writers, radio preachers, megachurch pastors, a few scholars, and, mirabile dictu, two Catholics: the junior senator from Pennsylvania, Rick Santorum, and the editor - in - chief of First Things, Father Richard John Neuhaus.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

Hear what BBIC Board Member, Kimberly Seals Allers (Editor - in - Chief of MochaManual.com) sees as barriers to young African American women breastfeeding as a first choice.

The crisis escalated when the academy dismissed another member, Sara Danius, as its permanent secretary, the group's chief official — the first woman to hold that post — though she remained part of the panel.

The NYPD has closed its investigation into the death of the first African - American woman on the New York Court of Appeals, Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said.

Mrs. Osei Opare who is a former lecturer and Head of the Department of Home Science at the University of Ghana and served under President John Kufuor's government becomes the first woman to occupy the Chief of Staff office in Ghana.

He appointed the first woman judge, former Chief Judge Judith Kaye, as well as the first African - American judge on the court.

Melissa DeRosa, the first woman to serve as secretary to the governor — the equivalent of the chief of staff post for a president in the executive chamber — recounted that despite her resume as a top official in Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office and role in the state campaign for President Barack Obama, she has been defined in the media by her relationship to her lobbyist father and husband, a former Cuomo spokesman who now works for Uber.

QUEENS, NY — Borough President Melinda Katz stated the following about former Chief Judge Judith Kaye, the State's first female Chief Judge and first woman appointed to the Court of Appeals: «Judge Kaye was a trailblazer in her own right and a fearless pioneer for justice.

In December, 2015, Ms. Curtin Gable was named Homicide Bureau Chief, the first woman in Erie County to hold that position.

The Chief of Kekam Nana Etease Disikan congratulated Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings for being the first woman presidential candidate and wished her well in all her endeavors».

Shadow First Secretary of State, Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills Angela Eagle MP Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer John McDonnell MP Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury Seema Malhotra MP Shadow Home Secretary Andy Burnham MP Shadow Foreign Secretary Hilary Benn MP Opposition Chief Whip Rosie Winterton MP Shadow Secretary of State for Health Heidi Alexander MP Shadow Secretary of State for Education Lucy Powell MP Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Owen Smith MP Shadow Secretary of State for Defence Maria Eagle MP Shadow Lord Chancellor, Shadow Secretary of State for Justice Lord Falconer of Thoroton Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Shadow Minister for the Constitutional Convention Jon Trickett MP Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Lisa Nandy MP Shadow Leader of the House of Commons Chris Bryant MP Shadow Secretary of State for Transport Lilian Greenwood MP Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Vernon Coaker MP Shadow Secretary of State for International Development Diane Abbott MP Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland Ian Murray MP Shadow Secretary of State for Wales Nia Griffith MP Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Kerry McCarthy MP Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities Kate Green MP Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Michael Dugher MP Shadow Minister for Young People and Voter Registration Gloria De Piero MP Shadow Minister for Mental Health Luciana Berger MP Shadow Leader of the House of Lords Baroness Smith of Basildon Lords Chief Whip Lord Bassam of Brighton Shadow Attorney General Catherine McKinnell MP Shadow Minister without Portfolio Jonathan Ashworth MP Shadow Minister for Housing and Planning John Healey MP

Cox on Twitter had called DeRosa, the first woman to hold the post of secretary to the governor (akin to chief of staff in the White House) a «petty thug.»

Rep. Louise Slaughter, the dean of New York's congressional delegation and the first — and only — woman to lead the House Rules Committee, has died after a fall, her chief of staff said Friday.

He appointed the first woman judge, former Chief Judge Judith Kaye, as well as the first African American judge on the court.

He named Judith Kaye as chief Judge to succeed Wachtler, the first woman to hold that position.

Though opposition to abortion rights is held by some mainline Democratic senators in the narrowly divided chamber — Sen. Ruben Diaz, Sr. chief among them — NARAL's ad takes on Skelos, who does not want to hold a floor vote on the bill (Cuomo is yet to release bill language on his women's agenda, first unveiled at the State of the State, and he says he's still piecing together the abortion rights proposal with women's groups).

In 2002, she was head - hunted as director general and chief economic advisor at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills - the first woman to be appointed to the role.

Candace K. Vogel is the first woman to be named Chief of the Erie County District Attorney's Office Special Investigations and Prosecutions Bureau.

In 2009, Mariette DiChristina became the eighth Editor - in - Chief in Scientific American's history and the first woman to hold the position.

Dr. David Ballard, MD, PhD, MSPH, FACP, chief quality officer for Baylor Scott & White Health, also views the finding that women continue to be underrepresented among the first authors of high impact original research as concerning.

He was an internal medicine resident for two years at Massachusetts General Hospital and then trained in neurology at Mass General, and Brigham and Women's Hospital, where he was one of the first chief residents for the Partners neurology residency program.

From 1993 to 1996, Córdova was the youngest person and first woman to hold the position of NASA Chief Scientist, serving as the primary scientific advisor to the NASA administrator and the principal interface between NASA headquarters and the broader scientific community.

Sandy is the chief love officer at Last First Date, devoted to helping women over 40 achieve healthy, off - the - charts love.

In 2013, Cheung joined the team as the brand's first ever head of global design for both men and women, the same year Bergh moved Levi's innovation center from Turkey to San Francisco, opening the Eureka Innovation Lab, and Karyn Hillman was brought on as chief product officer.

Laura hosted the first dinner for Badass Women in West Hollywood, with Laura Brown (editor - in - chief of InStyle).

It's close to the end of the second term of President Barack Obama, the country's first African - American commander in chief, and Southside With You arrives, as if on cue, capturing his first date with the woman who would become his (and our) first lady.

This new incarnation of the classic crime novels stars Rowan Atkinson, in his first dramatic role, as Chief Inspector Maigret as he looks to catch a serial killer stalking women in Montmarte.

Three years later, his successor, Paul Cellucci, named her chief justice — the first woman to hold the position in the court's more - than - 300 - year history.

Being honest, helpful and willing to help others were just among the ways that Debi Lilly, A Perfect Event Chief Eventeur, suggested to grow your personal brand when she spoke to the crowd of entrepreneur women who had gathered for the «Personal Branding» event as the first of the three - part series of the Leadership Collaborative with The #ChicagonistaLIVE Show andRead More...

Joanna, wife of Chuza, chief steward to King Herod, learns that the heart grows powerful when it accepts the truth of what it seeks in L.A. Times reporter Mary Rourke's first novel, Two Women of Galilee.

Currently the chief operating officer at Facebook, Sandberg also had a high - intensity position at Google when her first child was born, and she fully recognizes the hurdles involved, and the balancing act required, when a woman has a career and a family.

She became the first woman bureau chief and covered the Rocky Mountain Region on a wide variety of subjects, «not just business, but about issues that business people needed to know.»

One of the most successful first - person shooter video game franchises in the world has a pair of powerful women leading the charge on Xbox One's Halo: The Master Chief Collection (due November 11th) and 2015's Halo 5 Guardians.

Anne Pasternak became the first woman to head one of New York's two encyclopedic museums when she was named director of the Brooklyn Museum in 2015, and Nancy Spector rejoined the Guggenheim in New York as chief curator and artistic director earlier this year.

A Gauguin wood sculpture of a Tahitian woman from around 1902 — 03 — the model was reportedly sleeping with the artist's chief nemesis on the island, a Catholic bishop — had Christie's reps Zan Serafin and Conor Jordan locked in competition, until a rogue bid from the floor added a new dimension to the fight, and from there they bid up the price to a $ 27.5 million hammer, or $ 31 million with the buyer's premium, garnering the first applause of the New York sales.

Asked why he began collecting American Indian artifacts, Weisel, who has also collected postwar American art, said, pointing to a rare «first phase» chief's blanket, «Look at this in relation to a painter such as Barnett Newman - very simple, just a few lines - this is like an amazing painting, but made by a woman weaving on a loom on the Great Plains, outside.»