We are Proud to Introduce our Women Nominees


The Top 30 Women celebrate the accomplishments and giving spirit of hundreds of diverse, influential and powerful women in Houston and the surrounding areas. 

Top 30 Women Nominees

Carrin F. Patman

Honoree 2017, Carrin Patman is chair of the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County. She is METRO’s first woman chair, appointed in 2016 by Mayor Sylvester Turner…
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Cydonii Miles

Cydonii Miles is a prominent corporate lawyer, with almost 20 years of corporate finance, governance and securities law experience. As Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and…
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Margaret Allen

Honoree 2017, Dr. Margaret Jeanelle Allen was born in Lafayette Louisiana, the youngest of nine children. Dr. Allen knew in high school that she wanted to work…
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Karina Barbieri

Honoree 2017, Karina Barbieri was born in Venezuela, daughter of doctors and the youngest of six. She is married to the love of her life, Carlos Barbieri, an…
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Karina Gonzalez

Honoree 2017 Karina Gonzalez is a native of Caracas, Venezuela and a silver medal winner of the New York International Ballet Competition in 2007. She trained at…
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