Terry Neese 08/23/2007

Born in Walters, Oklahoma and raised in Cookietown, Oklahoma. She is founder and CEO of the Institute for Economic Empowerment of Women, past president and co-founder of the Women Impacting Public Policy Institute, Inc., a non-profit dedicated to the economic empowerment of women worldwide, and is founder of Terry Neese Personnel Services, a company that was formed in 1975 and has helped over 24,000 Oklahomans find jobs. She has served as a Commissioner to the National Advisory Council on Indian Education as well as on the Small Business Advisory Council. She was inducted in the Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame in 2007.