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2010 WOMAN OF INFLUENCE: Jackie Nytes

As executive director of the Mapleton-Fall Creek Development Corp., Nytes has taken the MFCDC from near-bankruptcy to a multimillion-dollar not-for-profit that’s changing the face of the formerly neglected neighborhood whose name it bears.

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2010 WOMAN OF INFLUENCE: Lori Miser

The executive director of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Planning Organization has literally changed the face of Marion County. Miser had a hand in developing such projects as the Monon Trail, the Indianapolis Cultural Trail, and most recently IndyConnect: Central Indiana’s Transportation Initiative Process.

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2010 WOMAN OF INFLUENCE: Sue Mahony

As senior vice president of human resources for Eli Lilly and Co., Mahony is the company’s senior-most leader responsible for the firm’s efforts to expand diversity.

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2010 WOMAN OF INFLUENCE: Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson

Magnus-Stinson is only the fourth female federal district judge in Indiana history (or third, depending on where one places her in relation to Tanya Walton Pratt, who was appointed to a similar position at the same time).

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2010 WOMAN OF INFLUENCE: Dijuana Lewis

Lewis has been responsible for health insurance giant WellPoint’s provider relations, care and disease management, information management, personal health guidance companies, and its pharmacy solutions group.

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2010 WOMAN OF INFLUENCE: Dr. Robin H. Ledyard

The president of Community Hospital East brings a lifelong interest in helping the needy to her duties as administrator. During her career she’s done everything from oversee the opening of the Jane Pauley Community Health Center to working as a staff physician in a Michigan homeless shelter.

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2010 WOMAN OF INFLUENCE: Barbara Holder

In her role as diversity manager for Smoot Construction, Holder has monitored the participation levels of minority-, women- and veteran-owned businesses in some of the state’s biggest development efforts.

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2010 WOMAN OF INFLUENCE: Dr. Lauren Dungy-Poythress

As one of the nation’s leading perinatologists (caring for both the mother and fetus during pregnancies with a higher-than-normal risk of complications), Dungy-Poythress has “put Community on the map” as a leader in this highly specialized but critical field.

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2010 WOMAN OF INFLUENCE: Traci Dolan

Dolan transformed ExactTarget’s financial operations, oversaw its 2007 IPO filing—later withdrawn—and spearheaded two of 2009’s biggest, most successful venture capital procurements, all in the midst of a precipitous economic downturn.

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2010 WOMAN OF INFLUENCE: Annette W. Cyr

Since joining the global communications technology firm in 2003, Brightpoint’s senior vice president, global human resources, has established a world-spanning HR team and rationalized the company’s practices across timelines, continents and cultures.

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2010 WOMAN OF INFLUENCE: Moira Carlstedt

As president of the Indianapolis Neighborhood Housing Partnership, Carlstedt is charged with finding ways not just to place low- and moderate-income families in their own homes, but also to keep them there.

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2010 WOMAN OF INFLUENCE: Susan Baughman

As senior vice president of event management for the Indiana Sports Corp., Baughman is regularly called upon to put Indianapolis’ best foot forward in extravaganzas ranging from the 2004 FINA World Swimming Championships to the 2010 NCAA Men’s Final Four.

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2010 WOMAN OF INFLUENCE: Jennifer Pope Baker

As executive director of the Women’s Fund of Central Indiana (a special interest fund of the Central Indiana Community Foundation), Baker has awarded grants to dozens of innovative central Indiana programs supporting women and girls.

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Women of Influence: Past Recipients

Honorees from 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 are not eligible for nomination in 2022. 2022 Julie M.Armstrong Carlotta A. Berry Rebecca Bormann Tina Cloer Deborah J. Curtis BrandiDavis-Handy Claire J.Fiddian-Green Sue Finkam Monica Foster Barbara Glass Marcela Kirberger Erin Lewis Lucia J. Mar Lawren […]

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