Awards & Recognition
★Three-time Gerald M. Loeb Award winner for distinguished business writing
★Gerald M. Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award (1993)
★Women's Economic Round Table Lifetime Achievement Award (2000) - first recipient
★Time Inc.'s Henry R. Luce Award (2001) - first recipient
★Society of American Business Editors and Writers Distinguished Achievement Award (2006)
★John Hancock Award for Excellence in Business and Financial Writing (1968, 1975)
★Hentz Award for financial journalism (1968)
★Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism (1978)
★Museum of American Finance Special Recognition (2023)
Notable Facts
→Longest-tenured employee in Fortune magazine history (60 years, 1954-2014)
→Second woman ever named to Fortune's board of editors (1968)
→Pro bono editor of Warren Buffett's annual shareholder letters for nearly 40 years
→Created the Fortune 500 list and coined the term 'hedge fund'
→Author of 'Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything'
→Born 1929, graduated University of Missouri Journalism School 1951
→Successfully sued Economic Club of New York for gender discrimination in 1970
→Appointed by Treasury Secretary to Advisory Committee on Federal Consolidated Financial Statements
→Available as keynote speaker through major speaking bureaus