About our 2014 Keynote Speaker:
Kay Bailey Hutchison

The Honorable Kay Bailey Hutchison has been a passionate and commanding force in American politics. She was the first Republican woman to be elected to the Texas House of Representatives and then served as Texas State Treasurer.  Then in 1993, she won a special election to become the first – and, to date, the only – woman elected to represent Texas in the United States Senate.  At the time of her election, Senator Hutchison was one of only seven women serving in the U.S. Senate.  Senator Hutchison soon became the Senate's fourth-highest ranking Republican leader and was the highest-ranking Republican woman prior to her retirement in January 2013. Forbes magazine has ranked her among the world's 100 most powerful women and in 2001, she was named one of the thirty most powerful women in America by Ladies Home Journal.  Senator Hutchison is the author of three books: American Heroines: The Spirited Women who Shaped our Country, Unflinching Courage: Pioneering Women who Shaped Texas and Leading Ladies: American Trailblazers.  She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Texas at Austin and her law degree from the University of Texas Law School, where she was among only seven women in her graduating class.

• Member, Texas House of Representatives (1973 – 1977)
• Texas State Treasurer (1991 – 1993)
• U.S. Senator from Texas (1993-2012)
• Member, Bank of America's Global Advisory Council
• Member, Campaign to Fix the Debt Congressional Fiscal Leadership Council
• Senior Counsel, Bracewell & Giuliani LLP
• Contributor, CNBC TV Network

This year’s event features networking and will include heavy appetizers and dessert. 2014 Annual Scholarship and Recognition Gala will highlight outstanding Women of Achievement in the Higher Education, as well as recent undergraduate scholarship recipients.

The 2014 recipients of the WWIG Woman of Achievement award include:

• Dr. Georgia Duerst-Lahti - Professor, Beloit College
• Morna Foy - President, Wisconsin Technical College System
• Erin Celello - Assistant Professor, UW-Whitewater
• Lorie Docken - Associate Director, UW Service Center for Strategic Initiatives
• Dr. Katharine Lyall - former President, University of Wisconsin System
• Jessica Tormey - Senior Special Assistant and Chief of Staff, UW System

About the 2014 Woman of Achievement

2014 Program Information

5:00 - 6:30 pm  Networking Reception
Heavy Appetizers & Cash Bar 

6:30 - 7:30 pm   Scholarship and Recognition Awards
Coffee & Dessert will be served 

• 2014 Undergraduate Scholarships

• 2014 Badger Girls State Governor

• 2014 Annual Leadership Seminar
  

• Women of Achievement in Higher Education
  

• Keynote Speaker, Kay Bailey Hutchison

7:30 pm Closing Networking Reception, Raffle Winners Announced & Book Signing
Cash bar

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$75.00 Individual Ticket

$500.00 Group of 8 - Save $100.00! A night out with friends and co-workers!

Buy Your Raffle Tickets! Great Prizes to be Announced!

2014 Sponsorship Opportunities

2014 Scholarship Recipients

2014 Undergraduate Scholarship

Katherine Ann Holmstrom
Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College

Yer Cha Vang
University of Wisconsin - Sperior

Caitlin May Zehlke
Lawrence University

2014 Leadership Seminar Class

• Nikki Andrews, Department of Health Services
• Regina Baldwin, Department of Corrections
• Casey Becker, Dane Conty Exective’s Office
• Carol Brockman, Capitol Police
• Joy Chen, Department of Health Services
• Jenifer Cole, Spreme Cort - Bar Examiners
• Laila D’Costa, City of Madison
• Angela Hansen, Department of Corrections
• Amy Harriman, Office of State Senator Olsen
• Sara Ishado, Department of Health Services
• Jennifer Jerich, Department of Natral Resorces
• Elizabeth Jones-Qeensland, Department of Employee Trst Fnds
• Arielle Karsh, Pblic Service Commission
• Kari Krajewski, W-Madison
• Kathleen Lake, Madison Metropolitan Sewage District
• Jessie Lerner, Sstain Dane
• Joselyn Lopez, Department of Corrections
• Kara Pennoyer, Office of State Senator Shilling
• Rachel Pings, Department of Administration
• Odemaris Santiago, Department of Health Services
• Vicki Seibel-Garvey, Department of Corrections
• Martha Stacker, Department of Corrections
• Erika Yong, Department of Transportation