National Women’s Law Center
2009 Awards Dinner
November 19, 2009
Washington Hilton Hotel
Reception 6:00 p.m. Dinner 7:00 p.m.
Co-Chairs
Beth A. Brooke, Global Vice Chair, Ernst & Young
Nancy E. McFadden, Senior Vice President, Public
Affairs, PG&E
Honoring Sheila Bair, Chairman, FDIC and
Brooksley Born, Retired Partner, Arnold & Porter
35th Anniversary Awards Dinner Honoree, Speaker
Nancy Pelosi, with Center Co-Presidents Marcia Greenberger and Nancy Duff Campbell
2006 Keynote Speaker Charlie Rose interviews Honoree
Judy Blume and Center Co-Presidents Marcia Greenberger and Nancy Duff Campbell
The Center’s annual dinner is one of the largest in Washington, attended by
over 1,000 policy makers and leaders from the women’s, civil rights,
corporate and legal communities, and raising over $1 million to support the
Center’s work to expand the possibilities for women and their families.
Past Program Participants include: Speaker Nancy Pelosi; Rosa Parks; Vice
President Al Gore; Senator Barack Obama; Senator Hillary Clinton; Senator
Ted Stevens; Governor Janet Napolitano; Secretary of State Madeleine
Albright; Lieutenant General Claudia Kennedy; Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg; Charlie Rose; Andrea Mitchell; Judy Blume; Billie Jean King; Cicely
Tyson; Susan Sarandon; Stockard Channing; and Jackie Joyner-Kersee.
Major corporate and law frm partners receive recognition at the highest
levels throughout the event, on written materials and in related media.
Past chairs of the Center’s Annual Awards Dinner include: Michael
Armstrong, Chairman and CEO, AT&T; Ambassador Charlene Barshefsky,
Partner, WilmerHale; Richard I. Beattie, Chairman, Simpson Thacher &
Bartlett; Anne Bingaman, Chair and CEO, Valor Telecom; Sheila Birnbaum,
Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom; Jeffrey Bleustein, Chairman
and CEO, Harley-Davidson; Joan Guggenheimer, Co-General Counsel,
JPMorgan Chase; Benjamin W. Heineman, Jr., Senior Vice President &
General Counsel, General Electric; and Allen P. Waxman, Senior Vice President & General Counsel, Pfzer.
For more information, contact Nancy Delahoyd,
Director of Special Events, at [email protected]
or call (202) 588-5180
11 Dupont Circle, Suite 800 Washington, DC 20036 202.588.5180 202. 588.5185 (fax) www. nwlc.org
NWLC Board Member Elaine Jones presents an award to
2003 Honoree Cicely Tyson