March 9, 2010
Brandi Jacobs-Jones Honored by WV Women’s Commission
By Tony Rutherford
Huntingtonnews.net Reporter
Charleston, WV (HNN) -- As part of its “Celebrating a Legacy of Women in Public Service,” the West Virginia Women’s Commission honored Huntington’s Director of Finance and Administration, Brandi Jacobs-Jones. Ms. Jacobs-Jones received the “Empowering Women Award” at the March 4 ceremony at the Charleston Women’s Club. W.Va. First Lady Gayle Manchin presented the award.
The “Lena Lowe Yost Award” recognizes her for teaching women in WV of “their personal abilities and strengths,” according to the WV Women’s Commission Facebook website. Prior to her current administrative position, Ms. Jacobs-Jones served as a city council woman and worked for the Ebenezer Medical Outreach Center which provides health care to low income residents of the city.
Ms. Yost, known as one of the foremost suffragists in the state, led a drive in 1920 to ratify the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. She was the first woman to preside over a national party convention and also instrumental in championing the establishment of a physical education building at WVU, served on the board of directors of the federal women’s prison in Alderson, and advocated for equal salaries and rank among women and men faculty at WVU.
Huntington Mayor Kim Wolfe congratulated Ms. Jacobs-Jones at the Monday, March 8 Huntington City Council meeting.
Other women honored are: Sharen Sumpter Dietz, “Non – Traditional Job Pioneer;” Ruth Goldsmith, “Lifetime Achievement;” and Jeanie Smith, “Community Service.
According to its website, “This event was to recognize the fact that from humble beginnings , WV has been grown on the shoulders and hard work of women and their tireless efforts in areas of empowering, community service, government, and non-traditional jobs. It was a small thank you to those women and a small token to the work women in the past have accomplished for our state.”
In addition, March is National Women’s History Month. Celebrating its 30th Anniversary, the West Virginia Women’s Commission will highlight themes from previous years recognizing aspects of women’s achievements from ecology to art. Their March 2010 theme will be Writing Women Back into History.
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Brandi Jacobs-Jones Honored by WV Women’s Commission
By Tony Rutherford
Huntingtonnews.net Reporter
Charleston, WV (HNN) -- As part of its “Celebrating a Legacy of Women in Public Service,” the West Virginia Women’s Commission honored Huntington’s Director of Finance and Administration, Brandi Jacobs-Jones. Ms. Jacobs-Jones received the “Empowering Women Award” at the March 4 ceremony at the Charleston Women’s Club. W.Va. First Lady Gayle Manchin presented the award.
The “Lena Lowe Yost Award” recognizes her for teaching women in WV of “their personal abilities and strengths,” according to the WV Women’s Commission Facebook website. Prior to her current administrative position, Ms. Jacobs-Jones served as a city council woman and worked for the Ebenezer Medical Outreach Center which provides health care to low income residents of the city.
Ms. Yost, known as one of the foremost suffragists in the state, led a drive in 1920 to ratify the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. She was the first woman to preside over a national party convention and also instrumental in championing the establishment of a physical education building at WVU, served on the board of directors of the federal women’s prison in Alderson, and advocated for equal salaries and rank among women and men faculty at WVU.
Huntington Mayor Kim Wolfe congratulated Ms. Jacobs-Jones at the Monday, March 8 Huntington City Council meeting.
Other women honored are: Sharen Sumpter Dietz, “Non – Traditional Job Pioneer;” Ruth Goldsmith, “Lifetime Achievement;” and Jeanie Smith, “Community Service.
According to its website, “This event was to recognize the fact that from humble beginnings , WV has been grown on the shoulders and hard work of women and their tireless efforts in areas of empowering, community service, government, and non-traditional jobs. It was a small thank you to those women and a small token to the work women in the past have accomplished for our state.”
In addition, March is National Women’s History Month. Celebrating its 30th Anniversary, the West Virginia Women’s Commission will highlight themes from previous years recognizing aspects of women’s achievements from ecology to art. Their March 2010 theme will be Writing Women Back into History.
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