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Women's Equality Day Awards
Each year, Women's Demo awards several deserving Democratic women with a Women's Equality Award and one woman with the Thalia Dondero Trailblazer Award for the important work they do in our community(ies). The recipients are selected by the Women's Demo Board of Directors and awards are given in August on (or near) Women's Equality Day. See below for past honorees.
Dr. Christina Vela
CEO, St. Jude's Ranch for Children
2022 Thalia Dondero Trailblazer Award Recipient
Previous Recipients
2021
Jeri Burton
Patty Davidson
Asha Jones
Rozita Lee
Regent Lisa Levine
ShaRhonda Ramos
2020
Jeana Blackman Taylor
NV Democratic Party Chairwoman Roberta Lange
Assemblywoman Connie Munk
Assemblywoman Rochelle Nguyen
Regent Laura Perkins
Dr. Marie Wakefield
2019
Barbara Aupperle
Carol Chesnut
Margie Gonzales
Judge Carolyn Ellsworth
2018
Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro
Judge Tierra Jones
Kristine Kuzemka
Jessica Padron
Dr. Halleh Seddighzadeh
2017
NV Democratic
Party Chairwoman
Jan Jenkins
Sara Denton
Judy Klein
Electra Skrydlewski
Judge Bita Yeager
2016
Sari Aizley
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Mary Hausch
Marie Ray Scott
Assemblywoman
Daniele Monroe Moreno
Councilwoman
Lois Tarkanian
NV Democratic Party Secretary Marla Turner
2015
Judge Nancy Allf
Judge Elissa Cadish
Sandra Douglass Morgan
Kathy England
Kathy Gillespie
Senator Pat Spearman
2014
Dr. Jo Briggs
Clark County Recorder Debbie Conway
Ruby Duncan
NV Democratic Party Chair Roberta Lange
NLV Councilwoman Pamela Goynes-Brown
E. Lavonne Lewis
2013
Verlia Davis-Hoggard
Assemblywoman
Renee Diamond
Dorothy Eisenberg
Carolyn Stephens
Pre-2013
Judge Karen Bennett-Haron
Clark County Commissioner Thalia Dondero
Clark County Treasurer Laura Fitzpatrick
Danna Lovell
Annette Magnus
Assemblywoman Dina Neal
Harriet Trudell
NV Controller Kim Wallin
Senator Joyce
Woodhouse
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