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Nora Denzel

Intuit

Nora is the SVP of Intuit's Small Business Payroll Group. In this capacity, she heads an over $400M SaaS (software as a service) business unit which serves over 1.2 millon small business owners. 

Prior to joining Intuit, she held executive level positions at IBM, HP and Legato Systems (acquired by EMC), in engineering , marketing and business planning.

Sara Holtz

ClientFocus

Sara Holtz is the Founder and CEO of ClientFocus.  ClientFocus helps successful women lawyers become rainmakers. She has coached hundreds of women partners from the nation's leading law firms to help them grow their practices. She is the author of Bringin’ In the Rain: A Woman Lawyer's Guide to Business Development.
 
Linda McKenzie
Ernst & Young
Linda McKenzie is a Partner with Ernst & Young, a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services with 135,000 people worldwide united by their shared values and an unwavering commitment to quality.  Ms. McKenzie is Director of State Legislative and Regulatory Affairs for Ernst & Young.  In this role she serves as Ernst & Young’s representative on The Accountants Coalition, a coalition of global accounting firms monitoring political affairs across the United States. 

  Judy Patrick

Women's Foundation of California

Judy Patrick is President and CEO of the Women’s Foundation of California. Prior to her appointment in 2008, Judy held the post of Executive Vice President of Programs for nine years. In that role, Judy led the Foundation’s advocacy and policy change work, including the development of the groundbreaking Women’s Policy Institute. She also worked to develop programs to strengthen grant partners’ organizational capacity and to evaluate the impact of their work.
 


LEGACY PROJECTS

The Legacy Foundation stands at the threshold of its second decade as IWF Northern California's foundational arm.

In 2005, we will celebrate the completion of the first round of Oral Histories, “Women Who Have Made a Difference.”  The women whose biographies are featured in illustrated booklets and on the CDs are:

  • Belva Davis: Bay Area television personality and the first African American woman TV reporter in the western United States. She is an IWF Northern CA member.
  • Sandra Day O'Conner: U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
  • Marion Diamond: a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and prominent in science and in the field of brain research.  She is an IWF Northern CA member.
  • Bernice Hemphill: founder of the nation's blood bank program, which she accomplished after witnessing the devastation of war in 1941 at Pearl Harbor.  The late Bernice Hemphill was a member of IWF Northern CA.
  • Mary Laniger: first woman partner in what was at the time one of the “Big Six” accounting firms in the United States. She is an IWF Northern CA member.

Nearly 100 complete sets of oral histories have been sent to high schools, colleges and universities with programs emphasizing women's history. Nearly thirty of the schools are the alma mater of IWF Northern California's members.

Going forward, the Legacy staff will track usage of the oral histories in an effort to establish benchmarks for future projects.

  • The Legacy Board participates actively in the annual Fellows Program of the IWF/Leadership Foundation. To date, we have nominated more than a dozen successful candidates who have been selected as Fellows in IWF's premier leadership program for women. Legacy also has co-sponsored nominees with corporate sponsors in the Bay Area. Nominate a Fellow.
  • Legacy supports signature programs with specific links to the Northern California region. These programs serve to advance leadership skills of the next generation of women entrepreneurs and businesswomen in the for-profit and nonprofit sectors.