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Dee Dixon has built “Pride Magazine” into an important voice for Charlotte and has set Pride Communications, her umbrella company, on a solid path of doing a variety of public relations and marketing ventures. The Pride Sunset Jazz Series and Pride Awards Gala are recognized as two major events in the Queen City which promote diversity, cultural awareness and financial support for worthy causes.
Ms. Dixon has recently been named to the board of directors of the Mint Museum and was also recognized as a LINK Leading Lady in 2005 for making a difference in the lives of others. In 2003, she received the Goody’s Powder Community Leader of the Year Award for her role in helping make the Charlotte community a better place.
Ms. Dixon is co-founder of What Women of Color Want and Women’s Inter-Cultural Exchange (WIE). What Women of Color Want was a series of events on career, business and market-driven issues relevant to minority women. WIE is a new non-profit organization designed to build social capital and trust among women of all races. She was also a 2005 Charlotte Business Woman of the Year Finalist and one of the 2005 Maya Angelou “Women Who Lead” honorees.
The Charlotte BusinessWoman of the Year Award, established in 1986, honors the achievements of exceptional businesswomen in the for-profit sector, based on their contributions to the business, civic and cultural communities in the Charlotte region. The award is presented annually at a luncheon held at Queens University of Charlotte. Queens has sponsored the award since its inception; Wachovia joined as a co-sponsor in 1992.
Finalists for the 2006 Charlotte BusinessWoman of the Year award finalists were: Catherine P. Bessant, Bank of America; Sherré L. DeMao, SLD Unlimited Marketing/PR, Inc.; Dee Dixon, Pride Communications; Alisa A. McDonald, Duke Energy Corporation; and Lou M. Solomon, Interact Skills LLC.
Christie Taylor, managing partner of Hodges Taylor Gallery, received the 2005 Charlotte BusinessWoman of Year Award on Wednesday, March 15 at Queens University of Charlotte. In addition to awarding Taylor, all finalists for the award were honored and recognized.
Taylor is the 20th recipient of the award, which recognizes the achievements of businesswoman in the for-profit sector, based on their contributions to the business, civic and cultural communities in the Charlotte region. The award is presented annually at a luncheon sponsored by Queens and Wachovia.
As part of the 20th Anniversary Celebration, which featured a video retrospective of the past 20 years of winners, former recipients Joan Zimmerman (1986) and Peyton Howell (2004), presented Taylor with the 2005 award.
Taylor has managed art galleries for over 28 years, including Art Gallery Originals in Winston-Salem, McNeal Gallery in Charlotte, and, since 1981, Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte's oldest gallery, committed to supporting art and artists of the Southeast.
A native of Winston-Salem, N.C., Taylor serves as president, board of directors, Chamber Music at St. Peter's. She also serves on the Alumni Association Board of Directors at Queens University of Charlotte, the board of the YWCA Women in Transition, and the Advisory Board of the Community
School of the Arts.
Taylor received her B.A. In Art from Queens College and attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art in Philadelphia. In 1989 she curated Nine From North Carolina, an exhibition that opened at the National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., which toured North Carolina for one
year.
Finalists for the award were Cynthia Carlson, principal at Campbell/Carlson;Dee Dixon, owner and publisher of Pride Magazine; Frances Queen, president and chief executive of Queen Associaties, Inc.; and Sandra Meyer, group vice president at Duke Power Co.
Preceding the Awards Luncheon was the Leadership Forum, facilitated by Karen Geiger, a faculty member at the McColl Graduate School of Business at Queens. Geiger, along with several past Charlotte BusinessWoman of the Year Award winners, framed the past 20 years of women in business and discussed the future for businesswomen in Charlotte.
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Queens University of Charlotte, in partnership with Wachovia, honored five outstanding women in business at the 2004 Charlotte BusinessWoman of the Year Awards Luncheon, held March 16, 2005, on the Queens campus. Peyton Howell, M.H.A., president of Lash Group Healthcare consultants, was named the 2004 Charlotte BusinessWoman of the Year.
Howell serves as leader of the Manufacturer Services portfolio of companies for AmerisourceBergen Specialty Group. She is a national authority on reimbursement and health policy issues. A pioneer in the design and management of patient assistance and reimbursement support programs with more than 15 years of experience in healthcare consulting, Ms. Howell navigates complex payer and provider issues by leading the design of creative strategies and tactics to improve access to new therapies. She speaks nationally on reimbursement and practice management issues. Ms. Howell has received achievement awards and written reimbursement articles for various publications, and she has helped establish foundations and public charities that promote patient access to healthcare.
The Charlotte BusinessWoman of the Year Award, established in 1986, honors the achievements of exceptional businesswomen in the for-profit sector, based on their contributions to the business, civic and cultural communities in the Charlotte region. The award is presented annually at a luncheon held at Queens University of Charlotte. Queens has sponsored the award since its inception; Wachovia joined as a co-sponsor in 1992.
Keynote speaker, Dr. Anna Fels, is practicing psychiatrist who has won multiple awards for her teaching and clinical skills, spoke on women and ambition at the Awards Luncheon. Dr. Fels is a member of the faculty of the Weill Medical College of Cornell University at New York Presbyterian Hospital. Her new book, “Necessary Dreams: Ambition in Women’s Changing Lives,” explores the complicated relationship between women and their ambition, focusing on both cultural norms that discourage ambition for women as well as some resulting behaviors that can detract from sucess.
In addition to the award, two Queens students, Julie Bost and Maria Housiadas, were honored at the luncheon for being recipients of the 2004 Charlotte BusinessWoman of the Year Scholarship.
The Awards Luncheon, in it's 19th year, was preceded by a Leadership Forum, facilitated by Karen Geiger, a faculty member at the McColl Graduate School of Business at Queens. Geiger joined Dr. Fels and several other prominent, successful business owners in leading discussions about femininity and ambition.
"The Leadership Forum provides personal access to the keynote speaker, the finalists, previous winners of the award and other highly visible, successful women in the community. Attendees commented on how much they appreciated the extra time with Dr. Fels and how they were able to obtain a deepened understanding of womens' ambition, " Geiger stated.
Finalists for the 2004 Charlotte BusinessWoman of the Year award finalists were: Lori Collins - Lending Tree; Frances Queen - Queen Associates; Linda Hudson - General Dynamics Armament & Technical Products; Linda Lockman-Brooks - Lockman-Brooks Marketing Services.
To view photos from this event, click here.
Dee Dixon 2006
Christie Taylor 2005
Peyton Howell 2004
Dana Rader 2003
Krista Tillman 2002
Vicki H. Wison-McElreath 2001
Mary Tribble 2000
Jeannie Falknor 1999
Gail Brinn Wilkins 1998
Carol Pontis 1997
Phyllis Schultz 1996
Ruth Shaw 1995
Katie Tyler 1994
Linda McFarland Farthing 1993
Jill Flynn 1992
Muriel Helms 1991
Patricia Rodgers 1990
Betty Trautwein and Elaine Lyerly 1989
Dale Halton 1988
Bonnie Widenhouse 1987
Joan Zimmerman 1986
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