Circle of Excellence

To be inducted into the Circle of Excellence, one must be honored by Maryland’s Top 100 Women three times. The following women —because of their professional, civic and mentoring achievements year in and year out — hold that special distinction.

• Janet D. Allan
• Dr. Sharon D. Allison-Ottey
• Sr. Helen Amos
• Floraine B. Applefeld
• Katherine B. Armstrong
• Joan I. Athen
• Vicki Ballou-Watts
• Lynne A. Battaglia
• R Buffy Beaudoin-Schwartz
• Joyce K. Becker
• R Diane Bell-McKoy
• Helen Delich Bentley
• R Cathy Bernard
• Marielsa A. Bernard
• Judy L. Bixler
• Laura B. Black
• Brenda J. Bodian
• Ellen C. Bogage
• Patricia J. Bonacorda
• Joann Ashley Boughman
• Dyan L. Brasington
• Jane M. Brewer
• Lynne G. Brick
• Edith B. Brown
• Jennifer Burdick
• Carolyn T. Burridge
• Shirley Burrill
• Hon. Cynthia Callahan
• Ellen A. Callegary
• Constance R. Caplan
• Sharon M. Caplan
• Eleanor M. Carey
• Jana Howard Carey
• Diane Elizabeth Cho
• Alice P. Clark
• Nancy R. Cohen
• R Suzanne Cohen
• Joan Develin Coley
• Shirley D. Collier
• Rita Rossi Colwell
• Harriet E. Cooperman
• Patricia Cornish
• Lorraine Adele Costella
• Isabel Mercedes Cumming
• Elizabeth S. Dana
• Brenda A. Dandy
• Deborah H. Devan
• Donora “Donni” Dingman
• Sheila Dixon
• Ann Marie Doory
• Frances Murphy Draper
• Barbara Perrier Dreyer
• R Janet Dudley-Eshbach
• Kathleen M. Dumais
• Lynne M. Durbin
• Adelaide C. Eckardt
• Susan C. Elgin
• Lois S. Elkin
• Judith C. Ensor
• Catherine A. Evans
• Dorothy Fait
• Ellen R. Fish
• Hon. Nancy Floreen
• Jennie M. Forehand
• R T. Eloise Foster
• Claire Marie Fraser
• Kathleen O’Ferrall Friedman
• R Kathryn Freeland
• R Hon. Karen Friedman
• Judith P. Fulton
• Ann T. Gallant
• Susan J. Ganz
• Susan K. Gauvey
• Barbara A. Gehrig
• T. Sue Gladhill
• R Carla Hayden
• Margaret Hayes
• Martha N. Hill
• Frances Hughes Glendening

• Sandra P. Gohn
• Marilyn R. Goldwater
• Joan B. Gordon
• Toby A. Gordon
• Cassandra Gottlieb
• Julia W. Gouge
• Michelle A. Gourdine
• Nancy S. Grasmick
• Sandra N. Harriman
• C. Sue Hecht
• Barbara R. Heller
• Ellen Moses Heller
• Marie C. Henderson
• Bonnie K. Heneson
• Elizabeth M. Hewlett
• Ethel B. Hill
• Sheila E. Hixson
• Barbara A. Hoffman
• Marcella A. Holland
• Ellen L. Hollander
• Paula Colodny Hollinger
• Helen Lara Holton
• Jennie C. Hunter-Cevera
• Marian Cecilia Hwang
• Dawn S. Hyde
• Donna Leah Jacobs
• Deborah E. Jennings
• Luwanda Walker Jenkins
• Patricia Coats Jessamy
• Adrienne A. Jones
• Barbara Brotman Kaylor
• Susan C. Keating
• Delores Goodwin Kelley
• Rose G. Krasnow
• Paula A. Langmead
• R Gloria Larkin
• Corinna E. Lathan
• Linda Thater Layton
• Hon. Diane Leasure
• Lainy M. Lebow-Sachs
• Dorothy J. Lennig
• Cynthia L. Leppert
• Susan P. Leviton
• Barbara B. Lucas
• Vicki Ann Lucas
• Malynda Hawes Madzel
• Susan S. Magazine
• Pamela Lynn Malester
• Adrienne A. Mandel
• Becky J. Mangus
• Joan Marshall
• R Martina Martin
• Marilyn D.Maultsby
• Lois A. Fenner McBride
• Carolyn McGuire-Frenkil
• R Hon. Maggie McIntosh
• M. Natalie McSherry
• Julie Mercer
• Bonnae J.Meshulam
• Barbara A. Mikulski
• E. Suzan Miller
• Patricia “Trish” A. Miller
• Patricia J. Mitchell
• Rachel Garbow Monroe
• Michelle Lamb Moone
• Dana Petersen Moore
• Elizabeth M. Morgan
• Elise Davison Morris
• Ellen O.Moyer
• M. Brook Murdock
• Sheela Murthy
• Shirley A. Nathan-Pulliam
• Betsy S. Nelson
• Marie L. Noplock

• Charlene R. Nunley
• Carol S. Parham
• Suzanne H. Pearce
• Laura Thul Penza
• R. Kathleen Perini
• Sharon R. Pinder
• Joan B. Pitkin
• Joanne Pollak
• Marilyn J. Praisner
• Mary Louis Preis
• Margaret-Mary V. Preston
• R Louna Primm
• Randi Alper Pupkin
• Irma S. Raker
• H. Frances Reaves
• Donna L. Reihl
• Judy Akila Reitz
• Donna LaVerne Rice
• Verna Jones-Rodwell
• Victoria Mary Rosellini
• Susan M. Rosenbaum
• Karen H. Rothenberg
• Ida G. Ruben
• Melanie R. Sabelhaus
• Jacqueline W. Sales
• R Joanne Saltzberg
• Gail H. Sanders
• Linda D. Schwartz
• Mary Ann Scully
• Louise Phipps Senft
• Mary Pat Seurkamp
• Jane Matricciani Shaab
• Robin Fogel Shaivitz
• Lois M. Shofer
• Carole R. Sibel
• R Robin Silver
• Paula M. Singer
• Paula R. Singer
• Gwendolyn D. Skillern
• Sr. Sharon M. Slear
• Carol E. Smith
• Janet Marie Smith
• Martha A. Smith
• Kathleen T. Snyder
• Ferrier R. Stillman
• Frances O’Connell Taylor
• Adena Wright Testa
• Emily C. Thayer
• Margaret “Marge” Thomas
• Robin A. Tomechko
• Marlene Trestman
• Patricia H. Troy
• Patricia S. Tunstall
• Betty Valdes
• Mimi Roeder Vaughan
• Deborah Elizabeth Voso
• Helene Hahn Waranch
• Manuele D. Wasserman
• Yolanda Maria Welch
• Pamela J. White
• R Deborah Williams
• Kathryn F. Wolford
• Joan M. Worthington
• Ellen H. Yankellow
• Betsy Ann Zaborowski
• JoAnne Zawitoski
• Honorary Chair: Nancy L. Sloane