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2024

2024

2024 Recipient of the Danville Area Chamber sincere appreciation award for shimmering commitment to excellence (September 2024)
2020

2020

2020 Inductee, Contra Costa County Hall of Fame, sponsored by the Commission on Women & Girls (August 2020)
2015

2015

2015 Served as a Fall Fellow at the Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas, running a 6-week video program on remarkable women in politics, business and the media.
2015

2015

2015 Appointed Senior District Representative, California State Senate.
2005

2005

2005 Featured in the book Women Who Paved the Way, by Dr. Elizabeth Kearney, Ph.D., in a chapter entitled: “She Can’t Resist a Challenge.”