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Marin Women's Hall of Fame Honorees
2011
Business & Professions
Julie Castro Abrams is the CEO of Women’s Initiative for Self Employment, a non- profit which provides education, training, and microloans to women-owned small businesses and transforms the lives of low income, high potential graduates. Under Ms. Abrams’s direction, the training-based, micro... Read more
2011
Volunteer Leadership
Since 1973 Linda Jacobs Davis has worked and volunteered for numerous local and national nonprofit organizations on a diversity of issues.
Born in Coral Gables, Florida after her parents left Philadelphia to start their life together, Linda was raised in a family where both parents worked and... Read more
2011
Social Change
Born in Los Angeles and raised by a strong and loving grandmother who believed and lived the axiom that compassion for others is a gift to oneself, was one of the first of Barbara’s many gifts.
As a Stewardess for United Air Lines she met her future husband. They settled in Marin County where... Read more
2011
Education
Dr. Denise Lucy is one of Marin’s progressive educators. She has consistently demonstrated academic leadership and vision in the formation of degree programs and strategic partnerships providing unique educational and community engagement in Marin County. Her commitment to educational equity has... Read more
2011
Community Service
Few people affect the greater public good than Dolores Nave, affectionately known as Dolly. At age 20, Dolly was a widow with two children. Dolly's first husband was lost in the Korean War. In 1955, Dolly married Rich Nave. Rich and Dolly raised eight children. With her eight children involved in... Read more
2011
Youth Leadership
Born in Neptune New Jersey, Maureen was the 10th of 12 children. When she was young, her family moved to Southern California, where she attended school. As a child, Maureen had a brief modeling career–her claim to fame was being featured as one of the Northern Tissue girls. In her teenage years,... Read more
2010
Religion
Angeles Arrien is a cultural anthropologist, award-winning author, educator, and consultant to many organizations and businesses. Raised bi-culturally and first generation of a Basque immigrant family from the Pyrenees mountains of Spain, Angeles discovered as a young girl, her deep interest in... Read more
2010
Social Change
Teveia Rose Barnes has known from early childhood that she wanted to be an attorney. A self-described skinny kid with large glasses from San Antonio, Texas, she was the one who all the other children would approach to settle disputes. As a youngster, she was considered extremely studious. She... Read more
2010
Community Service
Introduction: In January 1964, the San Francisco Chronicle named Joan Linn as one of thirty-five business people chosen as “Bay Area Leaders Who Made Their Mark in 1963.” After a long professional public relations, sales promotion, and advertising career representing agricultural industries, Joan... Read more
2010
Public Affairs
Born in Iowa, the third oldest of ten sisters and brothers, Joan Capurro says she comes from a typical Midwestern family - spiritually wealthy and financially poor but is anything but “typical.”
Her banking career began as a page at Wells Fargo’s head office in San Francisco at age nineteen. She... Read more
2010
Technology
Krystyna came to California in 1987. She was born the eldest daughter of a Polish immigrant and RCA factory worker and was brought up with old fashioned solid work ethics and a business tool her father impressed upon her, which was ‘make what you want from others easy for them to provide".
After... Read more
2010
Youth Leadership
While still in high school Marilee Eckert felt a calling to help youth keep their lives on track. She grew up on a small horse farm in rural Pennsylvania, her free time spent trail riding in the Blue Ridge Mountains. In a nearby town was a well-known residential treatment program for teens... Read more
2010
Environment
Remmy Kingsley remembers the moment, years ago, when she spotted a mushroom growing through the macadam in her driveway. "I was awed, “ she says. “Right then I saw the power of nature." That moment set the stage for a lifetime of environmental activism.
Born Rembert Brimm 87 years ago in... Read more
2010
Business & Professions
The Marin Women’s Hall of Fame honors Catherine Munson for her past efforts to preserve the Marin County Civic Center, acquire land for permanent open space and create the Point Reyes National Seashore.
Catherine Munson grew up in a little town in central Nebraska during the depression. Her... Read more
2010
Volunteer Leadership
For the better part of 30-years Jean has voraciously tackled mounting social crisis that many find too daunting to even acknowledge. The courage and tenacity she has shown confronting homelessness, suicides & court corruption in Marin has had rippling and lasting effects.
In 1989 Jean began to... Read more
2009
Arts
(1945 - 2007)
Mystical beings and familiar icons expressed Laurel Burch’s own brilliant and loving spirit. Her artwork and designs of fantastic felines, mythical horses, creatures from ocean and sky, people from many lands, all serve as symbols, to remind us of the ongoing world of the spirit.
As... Read more
2009
Education
Sister Marion is committed to serving others by raising social consciousness, primarily through teaching, administration and example. In 1949, she began her vocation as a Roman Catholic nun and taught third-graders at St. Raphael Elementary School in San Rafael. For 50 years, Sister Marion held... Read more
2009
Public Affairs
The first woman elected District Attorney in the history of Marin County, Paula Freschi Kamena, demonstrated in so many ways her desire to make a difference for others. As a successful prosecutor, Paula made sure that those who needed treatment in lieu of prosecution received it. She stressed... Read more
2009
Community Service
Helping others, seniors, the disabled, the economically disadvantaged, to find affordable housing has been Mary Murtagh’s primary focus since college. After graduating cum laude from Wellesley College, she studied architecture at M.I.T. Mary was assigned to design a bus shelter in a public housing... Read more
2009
Social Change
Gloria's work and focus are from three sources: love and respect for children; an understanding of the profound benefits of art and play as healing tools; a belief that everyone has something of value to contribute and that everyone needs opportunities to give back.
At thirteen, she became a child... Read more