Women in Business
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Women in Business Luncheon
"The Changing Landscape of Women in Washington, DC"
Speaker: Congressman Marsha Blackburn
Marsha Blackburn is an established, conservative results-oriented legislator who solves problems. She was sent to the U.S. House of Representatives at the start of the 108th Congress where she was one of only a few newly-elected congressmen selected to serve as an assistant whip on the majority whip team and the first female in Tennessee elected in her own right to the U.S. House.
Blackburn was elected State Senator in 1998, becoming the first woman to represent Tennessee’s 23rd Senate District. While in the Tennessee Senate, Blackburn led a statewide grassroots campaign to defeat the proposed state income tax. Her frequent appearances on talk radio and positive mention in national publications like Wall Street Journal made her a recognized national anti-tax and government reform advocate. She quickly earned a reputation for keeping her legislative focus on defending and expanding individual freedom and free enterprise.
Blackburn willingly accepts the responsibility of helping shape American fiscal policy as a member of the exclusive House of Energy & Commerce Committee. For 208 years, the Committee on Energy and Commerce, the oldest legislative standing committee in the U.S. House of Representatives, has served as the principal guide for the House in matters relating to the promotion of commerce and to the public’s health and marketplace interests. The 111th Congress marks Blackburn’s third consecutive term on the panel.
Representing both a portion of metropolitan Nashville and the suburbs of Memphis, Blackburn has strong ties with some of the nation’s premier songwriters and performers. In 2003, Blackburn founded the Congressional Songwriters Caucus to give the nation’s creative community access to Capitol Hill. The caucus focuses on the protection of intellectual property and tax policy.
Blackburn was selected to serve as an Assistant Majority Whip in the 108th Congress, an Assistant Minority Whip for the 109th Congress, and Deputy Whip for the 110th Congress. Whip Eric Cantor asked Congressman Blackburn to continue her service as a Deputy Whip for the 111th Congress.
In the 110th Congress she served as the Communications Chairman for the Republican Study Committee, a large group of fiscally conservative Republicans that make up a majority of Republicans in Congress.
A graduate of Mississippi State University and a small business owner, Blackburn has been actively involved in Tennessee grassroots politics and civic organizations for more than 25 years. Blackburn was born on June 6, 1952. She has been married to her husband Chuck for 32 years. They have two children, Mary Morgan Ketchel and Chad Blackburn, and two grandsons.
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April 2009 Women in Business Luncheon - Women In Corporte Leadership
04/29/2009 -
Women In Business Luncheon Thursday, April 23, 2009
"Women in Corporate Leadership... Untapped Potential"
The April Women In Business Luncheon featured three speakers who presented the findings of a study by Lipscomb University College of Business and Sponsored by CABLE.
The three speakers included:
Kate Austin, Research Team Leader and currently with Austin Funeral Home & Cremation Svs
Sue Herrman, Vice President of Marketing and Development InfoWorks, Inc. and represented CABLE
Allison Duke, Assistant Professor of Management, Lipscomb University.
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March 2009 Women in Business Luncheon - Women of Influence Class of 2008-09
04/06/2009 -
Women in Business Luncheon Thursday, March 26, 2009
Women of Influence Class of 2008 & 2009
The March Women in Business Luncheon featured a panel of Chamber Members of the Brentwood Cool Springs Chamber who have been inducted into the Women of Influence. These outstanding women who are making a contribution to Middle Tennessee joined Moderator Kate Herman, Nashville Business Journal, in a panel discussion.
Women of Influence Honorees and Panelist:
Ann Buchanan
United Way of Williamson County
Deborah Chapman
Questar Staffing
Paula Harris
Barge Waggoner Sumner & Cannon, Inc.
Marion Ingram
Reliant Bank
Stephanie Valdez Streaty
Nissan North America
Moderator: Kate Herman,
President & Publisher, Nashville Business Journal
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