DENISE VAUGHN
Twelve years ago, Denise Vaughn was struggling to balance work with the demands of raising a family. She felt like she was failing at both, so she resigned to take a less demanding job. The news reached the CEO of Ferguson, and he called her. She sobbed as she told him why she felt she […]
LYNN CROWDER GREER
Lynn Crowder Greer has been instrumental in some of this country’s biggest legal mass claims resolutions. From 1990 to 2000, the attorney was part of the Dalkon Shield Claimants Trust, which obtained settlements for more than 200,000 women who had been injured by the contraceptive device produced by A.H. Robins Co., a Richmond[...]
KATHRYN FALK
Kathryn Falk’s interest in politics led to her career in telecommunications. After working as a congressional aide, she saw women entering the cable broadband industry and realized she, too, wanted to join. “The industry is so unique because it’s not a utility. I mean, we think of it as a utility today, [but] it was [&hell[...]
Higher gas prices are needed
The U.S. inflation rate, which reached 8.6% in May, is at its highest point in 40 years. In 1982, it was just over 6%. Since then, the U.S. inflation rate has hovered mostly in the 2% to 4% range. The inflation rate is determined by changes in the cost of a fixed basket of 80,000 […]
Virginiabusiness.com Top Five July 2022
The top trending major business stories on VirginiaBusiness.com from May 13 to June 14 were led by the news that one of the three Frank Lloyd Wright-designed homes in Virginia was put on the market. 1 | Virginia Beach’s Frank Lloyd Wright house listed for sale Completed in 1959, the 3,020-square-foot, semicircular home on Crystal […]
JEN FLINCHUM
Before video conferencing existed, Jen Flinchum was a trailblazer for remote work. Women made up a small portion of the professional accounting workforce in the 1990s, and she wanted to change that. Flinchum joined Keiter CPAs, a certified public accounting firm, in 1999 and is now a partner specializing in tax planning and comp[...]
Balancing act
The Virginia General Assembly returned to a familiar configuration in 2022, legislating with a Republican-majority House of Delegates and Democratic-controlled Virginia Senate for the seventh time since 2000. But while the partisan split was old hat, much else about the session was new, taking place two years into the global COV[...]