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YWCA Milestones: A Tribute to Women
Special to The Truth
For the 19th
time, the Greater Toledo YWCA celebrated its signature
annual event – Milestones: A Tribute to Women – and honored
the achievements of seven local women in a variety of
fields.
Vallie Bowman-English as
among the chosen few this year for her accomplishments in
Government. Bowman-English, the Clerk of Court for the City
of Toledo Municipal Court, was nominated by Laneta Goings
who wrote:
“Vallie holds the duel
distinct titles of being the first African American and the
first attorney elected to the office of Toledo Municipal
Clerk of Court. She is the third vice-president of the
Toledo Bar Association and is the first African American
elected to this position. Vallie has implemented real-time
data entry in eight high-volume courtrooms. This allows
clerks to record entries as the judge or magistrate is
ruling and gives other departments and the public immediate
access to the case information.
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“Vallie serves as the
president of the Toledo Chapter of The Links, Incorporated –
a service organization with more than 12,000 professional
women across the country, one of the oldest and largest
dedicated, volunteer service organizations of women
committed to enriching, sustaining and ensuring the culture
and economic survival of African Americans and other persons
of African ancestry. Vallie has empowered women by inspiring
them to participate in the electoral process and encouraging
them to run for public office. She strives daily to
encourage others to keep their faith and remember with God
all things are possible.”
A graduate of Scott High
School, Bowman-English earned her undergraduate degree from
The University of Toledo and her law degree from Ohio
Northern University. Shewas admitted to the bar in 1996
entering the Lucas County Prosecutor’s Office that year. She
ran for the Clerk’s office in 2003 and has held the position
ever since.
Bowman-English is married
to Ian English, a prosecutor with Lucas County.
The other honorees of this year’s Milestones awards were:
Susan Martyn, Stoepler Professor of Law and Values at the UT
College of Law, for Education; Dr. Sonia Najjar, professor
at UT, director of CeDER, for Sciences; Kim Sidwell, senior
vice president, Resource Development for United Way of
Greater Toledo, for Social Sciences; Barbara Eikost,
volunteer at Hospice of Northwest Ohio, for Volunteerism;
Leslie Adams, poirtrait artist, for Arts and Marianne Ballas,
dealer owner-operator, Ballas Buick GMC, for Business.
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