Professional Woman of the Year

2013 Zonta Professional Woman of the Year
Betsy Price, Mayor of Fort Worth

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Mayor Betsy Price
In 2013, the Zonta Club of Fort Worth was proud to honor Mayor Betsy Price as its  Professional Woman of the Year.

A Fort Worth native, Betsy graduated from Arlington Heights High School, and then earned a science degree in biology at the University of Texas in Arlington. She was owner of Price Cornelius Title Service for 17 years. 

In 2000, she won the election for Tarrant County Tax Assessor, where she quickly made her department one of the most efficient in Texas, saving taxpayers millions of dollars, and helped the Tax Assessor’s office win national and statewide awards for efficiency, innovation and performance.

 “Owning a business taught me to keep looking for better, more efficient ways to get things done,” she says. “I brought that business experience with me when I was sworn in the first time.”

was elected as the 44th Mayor of the City of Fort Worth on June 18, 2011. 
Mayor Price has been focused on fiscal responsibility, creating a stronger economy through public/private partnership, and strengthening our neighborhoods through her faith-based and citywide health engagement initiatives that are set to launch this spring.  

The Mayor is also a major supporter of young adults becoming engaged in Fort Worth, and, to that end, has launched SteerFW, a group of more than 300 young citizens charged with learning about the biggest issues facing Cowtown and with finding solutions to those issues.
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Vicki Saylor-Probes, Club President; Mayor Betsy Price and Wanda Rufner, Event Chair
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Performance by the Texas Girls' Choir
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Fort Worth Club Members Attending: (Top to Bottom, Left to Right) Jaye Skaggs-Browning, Lynn Sudbury, Juda York, Cindy Stringer, Pam Cleary, Connie Stierstorfer, Charlene Peterson, Natalie Pedigo, Gail Wilson, Paulette Burns, Vicki Saylor-Probes, Lola Neil, Angela Niestemski and Wanda Rufner

2011 Zonta Professional Woman of the Year
Rebecca Miller

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The Zonta Club of Fort Worth is proud to announce that Rebecca Miller, Chief Meteorologist on KDAF, Channel 33 News, is its 2011 Professional Woman of the Year.

Since 1972, the Zonta Club of Fort Worth has honored a local professional woman who tirelessly pursues her dreams and works to make a difference in her community by volunteering and supporting local charitable organizations.

Rebecca has a degree in meteorology (atmospheric physics) and a minor in mathematics from Texas A&M University. A two-time Emmy winner, she has forecasted weather for the DFW Metroplex since 1991 on television and radio. She has taught broadcasting to meteorology students at TAMU for many years, and is currently pursuing a graduate degree in homeland security.

She was twice awarded “Outstanding Media Personality” by the American Women in Radio and TV and was the first recipient of the East Lake Pet Orphanage John LaBella award for her work with animals. She  has supported many local community organizations such as The Fort Worth Zoo,  The American Red Cross, Southlake’s Art in the Square, GRACE, Salvation Amy, American Heart Association, American Lung Association, American Cancer Society, The Dallas Zoo, The Humane Society, Operation Kindness and Zonta Club of Fort Worth’s Boots ’n Bling.

Rebecca will be honored Saturday evening, October 29th, 6:00 pm at Boots ‘n Bling, the club’s annual fundraiser at The Palace Room in the Stockyards.

2009 - Dr. Melanie Johnson - Fort Worth ISD Superintendent

2008 - Phyllis Norman