Women in History
The first female to hold MPEG's top job, she came to the guild in 1992 as an assistant executive director, became Western executive director in 2010 and is currently national executive director.
She is the first woman to be nominated for an Academy Award in the Sound Mixing category for Braveheart and has received 9 additional Sound Mixing nominations.
She began editing Cecil B. DeMille films in 1915 and continued until his last film, 1956’s “The Ten Commandments,” was the first female to receive an Oscar nomination for editing for 1934’s “Cleopatra” and the first to win for DeMille’s 1940 “Northwest Mountain Police.”