The glass ceiling over the City of Greater Sudbury continued to crack in 2002.
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Judith Woodsworth |
For the first time in the city?s history, women occupy many of the top seats in the academic and health-care fields. All three post-secondary institutions are headed by women, as is the Sudbury Regional Hospital Corporation.
Laurentian University ended its search for a new president when the governing body selected Judith Woodsworth as its first woman president.
Woodsworth started her new job July 1. Before moving to Sudbury, she was the vice-president (academic) at Mount Saint Vincent in Halifax for five years.
The appointment of Sylvia Barnard as president of Cambrian College became effective Aug. 6. Prior to her new role, she served as vice-president (academic) at Georgian College in Barrie.
Barnard?s career spans across 25 years in education, starting as a teacher in York Region for 10 years.
She then left the classroom for an administrative position as vice-principal and then principal in the York elementary system.
Barnard continued to work her way up the corporate ladder until she secured the top spot at Cambrian. Since taking the president?s job at the local college, she?s had to prepare for the expected increase in enrolment next year due to the double cohort.
Gisele Chretien, the president of College Boreal moved into the academic world in 1984 after leaving a career in the heath-care industry. She worked at Cambrian College before taking over the reigns of the French language college.
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Gisele Chretien |
Chretien received recognition as one of the four winners of the 2000 Influential Women of Northern Ontario Awards presented by Northern Ontario Business, a sister publication of this newspaper.
President and chief executive officer of the new superhospital, Vicki Kaminski, took on the role Oct. 6, 2000. Although new to the role, Kaminski has been involved in delivery of health care in Sudbury for more than 25 years.
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Vicki Kaminski |
During the course of her professional career, the hospital president worked in pharmacy services, respiratory therapy services, perfusion, nursing services and cardiac diagnostic programs.
She?s been actively involved in various hospital, community and provincial committees and organizations.
