| PIMA COUNTY TUCSON WOMEN’S COMMISSION MEMBERSHIP ROSTER 01/07/11NOTE: PIMA COUNTY APPOINTMENTS ARE CO-TERMINOUS WITH THEIR BOARD MEMBER’S TERM OF OFFICE. | |||||
| Name | Appointer | Employer | Term | ||
| 1. | Nena Ashton | Carroll, Dist 4 | Business Exec. | 10/19/10-12/31/12 | |
| 2 | Dr. Joyceen Boyle | Cunningham, Ward II | RetiredNursingDean | 07/01/2010-12/05/2011 | |
| 3 | Shirley Muney | BronsonDist 3 | Retired Librarian | Term 03/-1/11-12/31/12 | |
| 4 | Maxine Goodman | Comm.Appt. | MediaConsultant | 5/20/10-5/19/14(4 yr.term) | |
| 5 | Lucy Howell | Comm.Appt. | Small business owner | 10/20/10-10/10/1-/14 | |
| 6 | AlisonHughes(Chair & Coord.) | KozachikWard VI | EducatorUA College of Public Health | 3/16/10-12/2/13 | |
| 7 | Lucinda Hughes-Juan(Vice Chair) | Comm.Appt. | EducatorT.O.C.C. | 1/17/08-1/16/12(4 yr. term) | |
| 8 | Debra Johnson | RomeroWard I | Tucson Urban League | 01/11-12/05/11 | |
| 9 | Emma Juan | Comm. | Student | 09/15/2010-09/14/2014 | |
| 10 | Marietta Martin | Comm.Appt. | T.O. Nation Program Dev. Mgr. | 10/20/10-09/19/14 | |
| 11 | Lori Mennella, CPA(Treasurer) | Comm. | CPA | 08/18/2010-08/17/2014 | |
| 12 | Martha J Moore-Monroy | DayDist 1 | UA Natl. Center of Exc. in Women’s Health | 07/06/10-12/31/12 | |
| 13 | Denise Morse | Scott, Ward IV | Term 01/04/11-12/05/11 | ||
| 14 | Mohar Sidhwa | EliasDist V | Bus OwnerIntegrated PersonalSolutions | 10/20/10-12/31/12 | |
| 15 | DeenaStewart | WalkupMayor | 2/16/10-12/05/11 | ||
| 16 | Dr. Sheila Tobias(Exec. Comm.) | Comm. | Self | 5/4/10-5/3/14(4 yr. term) | |
| 17 | Dr. Mercy Valencia | ValadezDist 2 | Retired UA Executive | 08/03/10-12/31/12 | |
| 18 | Cecilia Vindiola | Comm. | Pima County | 09/15/2010-09/14/2014 | |
| 19 | Donna Whitman | FimbresWard V | Court Interpreter/Independently employed | 06/15/2010-12/02/2013 | |
| 20 | Dr. Kathleen Williamson | UhlichWard III(791-4711) | Williamson & Young | 3/17/10-12/2/13 | |
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Lori Mennella CPA comes to the commission on a path which started with becoming an officer in DC NOW, then serving in several positions for the Tucson Chapter of the American Society of Women Accountants, and currently acting as a grant writer for the El Cortez Heights Neighborhood Association. She has worked on feminist and health issues as an accountant for the national NOW office, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the American Cancer Society, the Pima County Office of Indigent Health, and the University of Arizona Department of Nutritional Sciences. She is temporarily retired and working for the Friends of the Library, where she is paid in books to add to her 3,000 volume library. Lori was appointed by the Commission in 2010.– Lori Ann Mennella, CPA |
 Alison Hughes |
Alison Hughes (Chair) (appointed by Ward 6 Steve Kozachik ) |
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Maxine R. Goodman (Commission Appointment 2010) I have always had an interest in women’s rights and women’s opportunities. When I co-founded and co-published a 25,000-circulation weekly for ten years in San Jose, CA, articles frequently appeared on women’s health and women’s equal opportunties whether it was for political office or for equal pay. As the media and community relations director for the League of Women Voters of Greater Tucson and as the public information director for the Tucson Branch of the Association of American University Women (AAUW), I have promoted women’s events in the media for a year and a half during 2009 & 2010. My special goal as a women’s commissioner is to bolster equal pay for women in Tucson since women make only $.77 cents on the dollar compared to men’s wages. I expect to study this further for the City of Tucson and I expect to have input with the Tucson City Council & the Tucson County Board of Supervisors. |
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Kathleen G. Williamson (Ward 3 Karin Uhlich) Kathleen has been a local lawyer since 1989, practicing in the areas of intellectual property, arts, entertainment & media law, municipal law, and criminal defense, and is a former judge pro tem and prosecutor. She is a regionally popular songwriter and performance artist. A life long feminist and environmentalist, Kathleen is especially concerned with the problems of immigrant women, human trafficking and violence against women. She holds J.D. and Ph.D. (anthropology) degrees from the University of Arizona, and an LL.M. in Intellectual Property law from Cardozo School of Law in New York. Kathleen has lived in Arizona since 1974 and Tucson since 1986. |
| Deena Stewart (appointed by Mayor Walkup 2010) | |
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Lucinda Hughes-Juan (appointed by the Commission) To Learn, To Teach, To Touch, to INSPIRE! – Is my personal mission statement. I have been a Commissioner since fall of 2007.
My interest in the Women’s Commission stemmed from my Great Aunt’s work with the commission as one of first appointed commissioners in the early 1970′s. Ms. Ella Rumley involved herself in women’s and Native American issues. I was inspired by her and hope to inspire others, in the long, on-going quest for complete equality and participation of women and minorities in today’s American society.I have over 18 years experience in the field of business education and training. I am a college instructor and have owned my own training and video production businesses. I am a published writer and business columnist, and currently write for two national publications; Indian Country Today (Marketplace Insights) and Native American Journal. In a civic capacity, I have served on numerous boards, commissions, committees and councils at the tribal, city, state and national levels; including three appointments made by the Governor of Arizona. I was elected to a chair position for most of my terms. I have extensive knowledge and experience working with various aspects of leadership and governance.My education includes: an A.A. Degree in Social work, a Bachelors Degree in Business Management and an MBA in Global Business. I am currently studying for a PhD. in Business and Organizational Management with a concentration on leadership and organizational change. I continue to study, research and write in the field of business and management with a special focus on the cultural dynamics of Native American Organizations. I am Tohono O’odham/Choctaw, an enrolled member of the Tohono O’odham Nation, located in Southern Arizona. |
| Kathy Woolridge (appointed by Ward 1 Regina Romero) |
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Sheila Tobias (appointed by Commission 2010) Sheila Tobias calls herself a “founding feminist”. She co-founded a NOW chapter in upstate New York; co-founded early women’s studies programs at Cornell, Connecticut-Wesleyan, and Vanderbilt, and taught “Gender and Politics” for one semester at Univ. of Arizona and for ten years at Univ. of California-San Diego. She also was the first to identify and analyse “Math Anxiety” as a particular disability in some women and to find ways to give women “math mental health.” She’s the author of 12 books, including Women, Militarism, and War; Overcoming Math Anxiety; They’re not dumb, they’re different; Faces of Feminism: An Activist’s Reflecitons on the Women’s Movement, and most recently a spirited defense of teachers, Science Teaching as a Profession. She has been honored by Tucson NOW with a Lifetime Achievement Award, and her name is etched in to the Univ. of Arizona’s Women’s Plaza of Honor. Ourside of Tucson, she vice president of a national association, the “Veteran Feminists of America” – www.vfa.us. |
Martha J. Moore-Monroy (appointed by Ann Day, Dist 1 2010)
Jennifer Cabrera (appointed by Bronson, Dist 3 2010)
Dr. Joyceen Boyle (appointed by Ward 2
Paul Cunningham)
Donna Whitman (appointed by Ward 5
Richard Fimbres)
