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THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT SIMPLY STATES:
“Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”
IN 2020 WE CELEBRATE THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 19TH AMENDMENT GUARANTEEING WOMEN’S RIGHT TO VOTE, AND STILL WOMEN ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THE U.S. CONSTITUTION. FLORIDA, LET’S RATIFY THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT.
We’re honored that we’ve received so much corporate and individual support thus far and we encourage you to take a minute to become a supporter today!
| Emmy Acton |
| Erin Aebel, Partner, Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick |
| Jean Amuso, Director, School of Social Work, USF (Ret) |
| Karen Arnold |
| Gail Auerbach, Executive Fellow, Center for Higher Ambition Leadership |
| Barbara Bachman, M.D. |
| Roberta Baer |
| Ryan Barack, Esq. |
| Kelsey Ann Barton |
| Dr. Dore Beach, USF Retired Counseling Psychologist |
| Samuel P. Bell III, Attorney |
| Trimeka Benjamin, President, Swim Digital Group |
| Elisabeth Bernitt |
| Kathleen Betancourt, Retired USF Associate V.P. / Lobbyist |
| Angela Birdsong, League of Women Voters |
| Caroline Black Sikorske, Attorney |
| Shelley Blood |
| Cheri Borman |
| Tracie Boyd |
| Betsy Braden |
| Patti Breckenridge Randall, People Connections of Florida, LLC |
| Christine Bright |
| Noni Brill |
| Carla Bristol |
| Karen Buesing |
| Robert H. Buesing, Esq. |
| Rhett Bullard |
| Dr. Moira Burke |
| Kimberli Burns Cummings |
| Anita Caballero |
| Norma T. Caltagirone |
| Sylvia D. Campbell, M.D. |
| Amelia M. Campbell, Shareholder, Trusts and Estates Group |
| James Carmichael |
| Joyce Carpenter |
| Bonnie Carr |
| Mrs. Rachael Carson Zerbe |
| Johanne Castagan |
| U.S. Representative, Kathy Castor |
| Mickey Castor |
| Betty Castor, Former President, USF / Former Commissioner of Education |
| Denise Chavez |
| Breanna Ciccone |
| Cathleen Clayton, Owner/Director, Clayton Galleries, Inc. (Ret) |
| Joan Coleman |
| Chloe Coney, Community Enterprise Group |
| Chris Conn |
| Shirley Copeland Arcuri |
| Jan Cornelius |
| Elizabeth Corwin |
| Marva L. Crenshaw |
| Ana Cruz, Managing Partner, Ballard Partners |
| Lisa Custer |
| James Custer |
| COL (R) Anthony J. D’Quila |
| Kim M. De La Parte, President, de La Parte & Associates |
| Nancy de Waart |
| Kimberlee B. DeBosier, PE |
| Robin DeLavergne, Senior Vice President External Affairs |
| Susan Dellinger, Professional Speaker/Author – Psycho Geometrics LLC |
| Linda Devine, VP/ Operations & Planning, The University of Tampa |
| Margaret J. Diaz |
| Cindy K. Donovan |
| Constance Dowling |
| Fentrice Driskell, State Representative, Florida House, District 63 |
| Ruth Duncan Bell |
| Peggy M. Durham |
| Doretha Edgecomb, Former Hillsborough County School Board Member |
| Diane Egner, Publisher, 83 Degrees Media |
| Keri Eisenbeis |
| Nicole Fanarjian, MD, Gynecologist |
| Amy S. Farrior, Attorney |
| Michelle Fender |
| Susanna Fenhagen, President, Grady Consulting Group, Inc. (Ret) |
| Richard Ferlita |
| Stephanie Ferrell, FAIA |
| Jeanette Figari |
| Mary Figg |
| Sue Flaig |
| Andrea Floyd, Transformation Consultant at Agile Thought |
| Dorothy T. Fox |
| Fred J. Fox, Jr. |
| S. Katherine Frazier |
| Elizabeth Frazier |
| Susan S. Freeman, Founder & President, Step Up Leader |
| Linda Fries |
| Yvonne Fry, Fryed Egg, CEO |
| Mary Gamble, President & CEO, Competitive Performance Systems, Inc. |
| Cynthia Gandee Zinober, Executive Director, Henry Plant Museum |
| Simone Gans Barefield, President/CEO, Gans, Gans & Associates |
| Diane Garcia |
| RoseAnne Garcia Bowers, Retired Assistant Superintendent – School District Hillsborough County |
| Tewabech Genet Stewart |
| Judy Genshaft, Professor and President Emerita, University of South Florida |
| Susan Gillen Casper |
| Kari Goetz, Vice President Marketing, The Florida Aquarium |
| Sara Golding Sher |
| Linda Goldstein |
| Adelaide Gonzalez, Attorney, Adelaide G. Few Legal Consultant (Ret) |
| Jonathan Goodman |
| Anne Gormly, Dean, University of Tampa (Ret) |
| Julia Gorzka Freeman |
| George A. Gragg |
| Marla Grant |
| Virginia Gregory |
| Marsha Griffin Rydberg, Attorney |
| Kathleen M. Grizzard, MD |
| Heidi Grogan |
| Zoe Gustafson |
| Elizabeth Gutierrez, Enterprising Latinas, Inc. |
| Amy Haile |
| Patricia W. Hall |
| Vivienne Handy, President & Principal Ecologist for Quest Ecology, Inc. |
| Honorable Sally A Harris |
| Karla Hartley, Stageworks Theatre |
| Linda Hawkins |
| Dr. Kathleen M. Heide, Professor of Criminology, USF Department of Criminology |
| Barbara Heineken |
| Judy Herman |
| Maria Hernandez |
| Chantal Hevia |
| Jilianne Holt |
| Whitney Horiszny, Sydney Alexander Designs, Creative Marketing Impressions |
| Maria Howey |
| Eleanor Hubbard |
| Mrs. Patricia Hurlock, President, Hurlock Marketing Enterprises |
| Lynn Hurtak |
| Grace Hutchinson, MSW |
| Michelle Hutson Schofner, Project Manager |
| Rhonda Ivery |
| Molly James |
| Dan Jenkins |
| Sam Jenkins |
| Max Jenkins |
| Teresa Jimenez |
| Pamela Jordan Wolf |
| J. Denise Jordan, Business Owner |
| Kimberly Jowell |
| Arthenia L. Joyner, Attorney / Former State Senator |
| Anne Kantor, Inc. Jewelry Design |
| Mary Kaplan |
| Roy Kaplan |
| Deborah F. Kauffman |
| Rev. Stephen R. Kauffman |
| Pat Kemp, Hillsborough County Commissioner |
| Elizabeth W. Kennedy |
| Elizabeth Key-Raimer |
| Mary Key, Ph.D., Founder & President, Key Women’s Leadership Forums |
| Amanda Kitt |
| Jamie Klapholz |
| Johanna Maria Krynytzky |
| Henry G. Kuivila |
| Carolyn Kurtz |
| Ya La’ford, Artist |
| Lois Lamb |
| Jeanette LaRussa |
| Claire Lessinger |
| Veronica Leventhal |
| Marsha Lewis, Retired CEO, Northside Mental Health |
| Starr Linette Brookins |
| Laura Lionetti Barton |
| Janet B. Lorenzo |
| Marianne Lowe |
| Kathy Lozano |
| Cathy Lynch Buckhorn, MD |
| Ann Madsen, Executive Director, Helen Gordon Davis Centre for Women |
| Brooks Marshall |
| Linda Martel D’Quila |
| Miriam E. Mason, Attorney |
| Margaret D. Mathews, Attorney at Law, PLLC |
| Jean M. Mayer |
| Suzanne McCormick |
| Marian P. McCulloch, Esq., B.C.S. |
| Laura McCullough |
| Jill McDannold |
| Jen McDonald |
| Barbara Krans McCollum |
| Ann McKeel Ross |
| Mindy McLaughlin, Esq. |
| Tracy McMenimon |
| Linda Medeiros |
| Anneliese Meier |
| Nathaniel Mercer |
| Mildred Mercer |
| Martha Minahan |
| Lisa J. Montelione |
| Kathleen Moore, PhD |
| Carlye Morgan |
| Emery Morris |
| Donna Morrison |
| Paddy Moses, Business Owner (Ret) |
| Sandy Murman |
| Jessica Muroff, CEO, United Way Suncoast |
| Mindy Murphy, President & CEO, The Spring of Tampa Bay |
| Michelle Nadeau, Esq. |
| Idiannette “Idy” Negron |
| Vanessa Negro̒n Cohn |
| Susan Nelson-Crowley |
| Candy Olson, Retired School Board Member |
| Joanne Olvera Lighter, President & CEO, Preserve Vision Florida |
| Melia Oneal |
| Kimberly Overman |
| Luanne J. Panacek |
| Penny Parks |
| Jane Peppard |
| Donna J. Petersen, Dean, College of Public Health, University of South Florida |
| Dr. Idelia Phillips, ProcPhil Consulting, LLC |
| Kathleen Pilczuk |
| Katie Prentiss Onsager |
| Patricia J. Priest |
| Christy Purdy |
| Carolyn B. Reed, PhD |
| Gwendolyn Reese |
| Leslie Reicin Stein, Managing Attorney Leslie Reicin Stein P.L. |
| Lisa L. Robbins, Oceanographer (Ret) |
| Jan M. Roberts, Founder & Director, Cultural Innovations Agency, Inc. |
| Barbara Romano |
| The Honorable Sara Romeo |
| Gordon Rothamel |
| Susan Rothamel |
| Marlene B. Rubin |
| Austin Rueda |
| Charla Rueda |
| Amanda Rueda |
| Bonnie R. Saks, M.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, USF |
| Nancy Sardin͂as Lambert |
| Linda Saul-Sena |
| Julie Saul, Julie Saul Projects |
| Hope E. Sayre |
| Petra Schetten |
| Norman Schlact |
| Sharon Seiden |
| Ann Sells Miller, COO, H-CYTE, Regenerative Medicine Solutions |
| Aliza Sena |
| Gabrielle Sena |
| Juel Shannon Smith, Educational Consultant, Jue-L Consulting Group |
| Francine Shebell |
| Dana L. Shires, M.D. |
| Sartura Shuman Smith, Centre for Women |
| Janet M. Sibol |
| Bemetra Simmons, Florida Managing Director, CIT Bank |
| Rosalie Sink |
| Alex Sink, Former Florida CFO |
| Janna Skye |
| Deborah Skyrms |
| Norwood Smith |
| Susan Smith |
| Mariella Smith |
| Mindy Snyder |
| Tee Solomon, Florida Council of Negro Women |
| Marlene Spalten |
| Mary Theresa Spoto |
| Elora Spoto |
| Miriam Stamps |
| Spurgeon M. Stamps, Jr. |
| Susan Steen, MD, Tampa Neurology Associates/Axiom Clinical Research |
| Nancy Stevens |
| Leslie Reicin Stein, Esq |
| Richard Nathan Stein, Esq |
| Dr. Anne Strozier, Emeritus Professor of USF |
| Lagretta Tallent Lenker, PhD |
| Lorna Taylor |
| Elaine Terenzi |
| Elaine Terenzi |
| Maryellin F. Territo |
| Stella Thayer |
| Natalie P. Thomas |
| Ann Thomas |
| Louise M. Thompson |
| Susan Thompson |
| Sally Thompson |
| Becca Tieder, President, One Student |
| Julie Tobey Jenkins |
| Holly Tomlin |
| Frances M.Toole |
| Evelyn Tosi |
| Ione Townsend |
| Nicole Trailer |
| Betty Tribble |
| Jeanne Trudeau Tate, Adoption Attorney |
| Geraldine Twine |
| Rena Upshaw Frazier, Attorney, Rena Frazier Law |
| Louisa Van Eepoel |
| Edna Vasser Broyles |
| Nancy Vaughn, Principal/PR & Marketing Director, White Book Agency |
| Vicki Vega, CEO/Founder, Advantage-Plus Resources, Inc. & Success After 60 |
| Mike Viren |
| Dr. Joan Wagner Zinober, Retired Psychologist & Management Consultant |
| Patricia Walden Hall |
| Lauren Ashley Wallace |
| Laura Waller, Artist |
| Elizabeth P. Walters |
| Patricia Watkins |
| Lora Webb |
| Lauren Weiner, Ph.D. |
| Dr. Marketa Wills |
| Belinda F. Wilson |
| Bertha P Williams |
| Laurie Winkles |
| India Witte |
| Sterlin Woodard |
| Stacy E. Yates |
| Jean Yglesias |
| Missy York |
| Katherine S. Young, President and CEO, Young Search Partners |
| Gwynne A. Young, Shareholder Carlton Fields, P.A. Tampa FL |
| Andrea Zelman, City Attorney for the City of Tampa |
The Athena Society is a group of professional women working to promote equality and opportunity for all women. Founded in 1976 to support ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, the organization remains committed to that purpose today.