WONder Woman SPOTLIGHT 
Jennifer Granholm

​Each month we like to highlight the works of one of our honored WONder Women and this month we're proud to shine our spotlight on the newest United States Secretary of Energy, Jennifer Granholm. 

We are very pleased to add our voices to the many who are wishing our friend, WONder Woman and ex-Governor of Michigan all the best in her new role leading the U.S. Department of Energy.

Prior to her confirmation on February 25, 2021 as Energy Secretary, Granholm served two terms as the first woman Governor of Michigan, from 2003 to 2011. During her tenure as governor, the Pew Center on the States twice recognized Michigan in its biannual surveys as one of the best-managed states in the nation. Prior to running for governor, Granholm served in another statewide executive position as the first woman elected Attorney General of Michigan, a role she held from 1998 to 2002.

After leaving office as Governor, Granholm joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley as a Distinguished Professor of Practice in the Goldman School of Public Policy, focusing on the intersection of law, clean energy, manufacturing, policy, and industry. She also served as an advisor to the Clean Energy Program of the Pew Charitable Trusts.

We salute you, Jennifer Granholm, for your dedicated public service and for being a role model for women everywhere!

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Here are a few biographies of our newest Secretary of Energy if you would like to read more.
University of California, Berkley   -   Detroit Free Press   -  ​U.S. Department of Energy

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Congratulations to all the Women Elected on Nov. 3rd in Oakland County! 
Here's the list, starting with our own members!

Thank you, also, to all the women who put themselves forward and ran for office, win or lose, for you are role models, every one.

​A Special Message about the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment

​August 26,2020, marks the day which commemorates the adoption of the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution one hundred years ago. This amendment ended the denial of voting rights to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex.
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As we celebrate this historic event,we would be remiss as a women’s leadership organization supporting women if we did not recognize the courageous Suffragists who fought for this right for over 70 years. Women black and white mobilized for our political freedom. The defining moment of their decades long battle was that they were able to overturn a centuries old law which altered civil rights in our country’s history.  Sadly, its passage left behind many women of color until August 6, 1965 when the Voting Rights Act became law.

We are so grateful to the trailblazing women who fought for our political freedom paving the way for so many of us. There are quite a number of suffragist who are seldom recognized for their dedication from cities across our state. Lilian Ascough and Betsey Reyneau were from Detroit, Sojourner Truth from Battle Creek and Clara Bryant Ford and Charlotte Berry Sherrard from Dearborn.  All of them working in their own way, finding common ground in support of one another.

As we begin to plan our WONF breakfast networking meetings for 2020-21, we are going to start off the fall with a theme which member Beth Talbert introduced us to, “Showing Up for Each Other” which certainly is as appropriate now as it was 100 years ago. There are many challenges facing women in leadership in 2020, some not very different from a century ago. Let’s talk about them together.

We will also provide additional network time for members and those who are running for office to introduce themselves and ask ‘how we can show up for them.’ There will also be enough time on the agenda for other introductions. Be sure that your membership is up to date for our September 18, 7:30 a.m. virtual breakfast meeting, details about which are here.

We hope you will join us throughout the year in our temporary, virtual meeting place.  We look forward to sharing coffee, muffins and conversation with you in person when it’s safe to do so.

Women Officials' Network Foundation, trustees