25 women leaders will be honored

Wednesday, May 19, 2004 | 12:49 p.m.

Twenty-five local women will be honored at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at R&R Partners, 900 S. Pavilion Center Drive, for their business and community contributions.

The honorees were selected by a panel of women business and community leaders through Distinguished Publishing Co., which is publishing the first illustrated edition of "25 Notable Las Vegas Women."

These women are featured in the new "25 Notable Las Vegas Women" book:

Willi Baer, Big Brothers Big Sisters Southern Nevada' Rep. Shelley Berkley; Suzanne Cram, Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center; Jackie DeLaney, Sun West Bank; Frankie Sue Del Papa, former Nevada attorney general; Jenny DesVaux Oakes, Sierra Health Services; Thalia Dondero, university Board of Regents; County Commissioner Yvonne Atkinson Gates; UNLV President Carol Harter; Eileen Hayes, Nevada Opera Theatre; Sandra Heverly, STOP DUI; Nancy Houssels, Nevada Ballet Theatre; Lt. Gov. Lorraine Hunt; former Las Vegas Mayor Jan Jones, Harrah's Entertainment; Dee Ladd, Sunrise Children's Hospital Foundation; Rose McKinney-James, Energy Works Consulting; Patricia Mulroy, Las Vegas Valley Water District; state Sen. Ann O'Connell; Sandy Peltyn, Martin and Peltyn Inc.; Karla Perez, Spring Valley Hospital Medical Center; Lia Roberts, Lia Arnold Roberts Trust; Gene Seger blom, writer and former assemblywoman; state Sen. Dina Titus; Angie Wallin, Nevada Arts Advocates, and Claudine Williams, Harrah's.