About the Author
Judy Singleton, businesswoman, writer, lecturer and former editor of Indianapolis Woman magazine, has been studying women trailblazers since 1983. As president of the Network of Women in Business, she was invited to Kennedy Space Center to witness the historic launch of the space shuttle Challenger with astronaut Sally Ride, America's first woman in space. In 1994 she spent a weekend on the aircraft carrier USS Eisenhower where she interviewed the first two women to be permanently assigned to a battleship in the history of the U.S. Navy. In 1995 she traveled to Romania to help train national women leaders for key roles in their country's emerging democracy after the fall of communism. Then in 1999 she did a 10-day safari on horseback in Botswana with the only woman-owned and operated outfitter in Africa. She chose, however, to focus on Indiana women for this calendar series which started in 2000. "I'm a seventh-generation Hoosier, and I wanted to do something for th! e women of Indiana who have been neglected in the written history of our state."
