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Nomination forms requesting submissions for Vision Monday’s 5th Annual “Most Influential Women in Optical” report were issued via Jobson’s Vision Monday, 20/20 and Review of Optometry publications and their Web sites during the months of May and June 2007.
This year’s report was structured differently than those in the past.
This year, VM considered nominations from among the 200+ women previously honored, requesting that readers consider who among them was, in their opinion, among the most influential in the field and industry this year. In addition, we encouraged readers to submit nominations for newcomers.
On the occasion of Vision Monday’s 20th anniversary, the goal was to create a report citing the contributions of 2007’s 20 Most Influential Women.
Nominees are required to have a minimum of two years of experience in the optical industry in any segment of the market or vision care field and nominators were asked to submit the nominee’s title and current role, along with a brief description of the way she influences the business. There was no limit to the number of nominations submitted.
The “Influential Women” process is not designed to be a vote or a ranking and the number of nominations received did not affect the people considered for final selection. More than 500 responses were reviewed and categorized. Vision Monday’s editors reviewed each entry, consolidated the candidates and made the final selection.
The “Chosen Because...” selections are drawn from the nominations submitted for each candidate. Honorees are organized alphabetically by sector.