Violet Apple, CEO of the Girl Scouts of Central Maryland, fills in Sloane Brown about how her organization - its staff, members and volunteers - have demonstrated true Girl Scout resiliency in how they’ve handled the last year.

Laura J. Mansfield, MSN, RN, NEA-BC was named senior vice president and chief nursing officer with University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Health (UM UCH). Mansfield is new to UM UCH. She has more than 30 years of nursing experience and holds two board certifications — Nurse Executive, Advanced (NEA-BC) and Medical-Surgical Nursing (RN-BC) . She ...

I am an introvert and a perfectionist. I am also a woman and a litigator. I think I am not alone in wearing all these hats. As a young attorney, I spent a lot of time keeping my thoughts and ideas to myself because I did not want to be wrong or come across as ...

President Joe Biden said Tuesday that he intends to nominate U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah L. Boardman and U.S. Court of Federal Claims Judge Lydia K. Griggsby to the U.S. District Court for Maryland. If confirmed by the Senate, Boardman and Griggsby would fill two of the three coming vacancies on Maryland’s federal bench, which has ...

Elizabeth Lindsey has been named CEO of Urban Alliance, a youth workforce development nonprofit providing paid internships, skills training, and mentoring to under-resourced youth in Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit and greater Washington. Lindsey brings nearly two decades of nonprofit and government experience in empowering individuals and communities to create positive change, most recently as CEO of ...

Over 200,000 more women than men have received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in Maryland so far, with women having received 58% of the over 1,500,000 first doses that have been distributed in the state thus far.  The trend mirrors patterns in other states, like Maine and Minnesota, where the gender gap is ...

Gender diversity at the high levels of leadership within a company has been directly connected to higher profitability.

The Daily Record announced the names of the 2021 Maryland’s Top 100 Women winners. This is the 26th year for the awards celebration and nearly 1,600 women have been honored in that time. This year, 13 women are joining the Circle of Excellence for winning the award for a third and final time. For a ...

The Children’s Guild Alliance named Jenny Livelli as president and CEO, bringing more than two decades experience in education, human services and nonprofit leadership as the organization’s first woman CEO in the $86-million organization’s 67-year history and its first new CEO in 26 years. Since January 2020, Livelli has served as chief operating officer of ...

Cindy Plavier-Truitt was named president and CEO of Humanim, the Maryland-based nonprofit. She succeeds Humanim’s longtime CEO, Henry Posko, who retired in September. Plavier-Truitt has worked at Humanim for 32 years and had been serving as Interim CEO following her predecessor’s retirement. Plavier-Truitt has created and led major initiatives across all of Humanim’s programs and ...

Executive Alliance, which promotes women leaders in Maryland, is accepting applications for the organization’s yearlong mentoring program, Effective Impact, which provides individual guidance and professional skills to help midlevel professional women achieve their career goals. Effective Impact provides participants with formal and informal one-on-one consultation sessions, six professional development sessions and networking opportunities. The program ...

Allison Siegel was named new chief operating officer of CULTA, a craft quality producer of cannabis flower and cannabis extracts. Prior to joining CULTA, Siegel was president at Next Day Blinds, a Maryland-based, direct-to-consumer business with more than 400 employees. She has more than 20 years of professional experience, 10 of which were spent as an IT and marketing ...

WASHINGTON — Janet Yellen, the first woman to head the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury Department, says women seeking to pursue careers in economics face a number of obstacles from the way beginning economics courses are taught to overly aggressive questioning questions in college seminars. “There is a cultural problem in the profession, and ...

About 20 years ago, Shelly Matter was a single mother of three school-age children and was having difficulty making ends meet. She looked around for jobs with more earning power and stability when she hit upon a career in the heating, ventilation and air conditioning industry, or HVAC. She hasn’t looked back. “I saw stability ...

NEW YORK — The NFL has hired Maia Chaka as the first Black female official in league history. She will work games during the 2021 season. “I am honored to be selected as an NFL official,” Chaka said. “But this moment is bigger than a personal accomplishment. It is an accomplishment for all women, my ...

Research shows that over the next few decades, women are poised to inherit roughly 70% of intergenerational wealth. Making these numbers even more impressive is the fact that some of these women (traditional couples) may inherit twice: from their parents and their spouse or partner, as women tend to outlive men. With this increase in ...

Dr. Theresa B. Felder was appointed the 10th president of Harford Community College and began her new position Jan. 1. She comes to Harford Community College from Clark State College in Springfield, Ohio, where she most recently served as the senior vice president for student success. Prior to this position, she was the vice president ...

BOSTON — For the better part of a century, the iconic image of a Boston mayor typically conjured up the figure of James Michael Curley — the real-life Irish-American city boss elected four times as mayor between 1914 and 1946. Think Spencer Tracy in “The Last Hurrah.” That stereotype may soon be going the way ...