2010 Top Women in Finance

After perusing a record number of nominations for the 2010 Top Women in Finance award, Finance & Commerce announced the 50 winners.

The list of winners for the 10th-annual awards, presented below, is impressive.

It includes principals, partners, executive vice presidents, CFOs, CEOs and managing directors at not only financial institutions and lenders but also businesses small and large throughout Minnesota.

And this year, for the first time, F&C has chosen nine women as honorees for the second time; these nine have entered the Top Women in Finance award program’s new “Circle of Excellence.”

They are (with the years they first won):

Regina Barr, founder/CEO, Red Ladder Inc. (2008)

Jeanne Crain, executive vice president, M&I Marshall & Ilsley Bank (2007)

Mary Gabler, Central Region community development manager, Wells Fargo Bank (2007)

Diana Garvis Purcel, chief financial officer, Famous Dave’s of America Inc. (2005)

Robyn Hansen, attorney and shareholder, Leonard, Street and Deinard (2007)

Nicole Middendorf, president and LPL financial adviser, Strategic Financial Inc. (2007)

Julie Tanaka, principal, Compendium Business Strategies (2006)

Mary Tjosvold, CEO, Mary T. Inc. (2005) and,

Mary Twinem, chief financial officer, Buffalo Wild Wings Inc. (2004).

Also on the list are four women who founded their own companies, a stringent test of financial will and skill.