FIWT History

Realizing the need of a state organization, various insurance women in Dallas extended an invitation to the organized Insurance Women's Clubs in Texas to meet with them for the purpose of organizing the Federation of Insurance Women of Texas.

On June 2, 1944, 275 insurance women from twenty cities in three states heard Ms. Ruth A. Fredde, Founder, present the plan for the organization of the Federation. Delegates from the organized clubs of Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston and San Antonio unanimously voted to form the Federation of Insurance Women of Texas, adopting the constitution and by-laws and electing officers.

Presented below are the principles upon which the Federation of Insurance Women of Texas was organized as given in the pledge of office at the installation of its first officers in Dallas, June 1944.

FIRST, to build and maintain greater efficiency through study and practice.

SECOND, to establish acquaintance with women having mutual interests through social and business meetings.

THIRD, to collectively participate in a worthwhile manner to the civic betterment of your community.

FINALLY, through unselfish service, seek to elevate the standards of the insurance profession.

With these ideals firmly in our minds and consciousness, there lies ahead the bright certainty that this organization will continue to play an increasingly important part in the lives and careers of its members as well as exerting a profound and beneficial influence on the business and profession in which we work.

The above standards, set all those years ago, still stand true today. While our association has grown and flourished, our main objective is still, and will remain, EDUCATION for our members.

Our membership is open to both women and men, independent agencies as well as direct writers, standard insurance companies and E & S companies, adjusting firms, and all those companies that support the insurance industry.

Please click on FIWT Membership information if you are interested in joining one of our 9 local associations across the State of Texas or Industry Membership if you would like to support FIWT at the State level.

Immediate Past President

2023-2024

Debbie Trees

FIWT Past Presidents

2022-23 Tanya Wyatt

2021-22 Sue Finke

2019-21 Wendy Rhoden

2018-19 Cindy Jordan

2017-18 Shanna Sutton

2016-17 Donna Williams

2015-16 Sharon Foster

2014-15 Gigi Heffernan

2013-14 Vanessa Torres

2012-13 JoAnna Ringel

2011-12 Conya Harris

2010-11 Linda Saupp

2009-10 Teri Jones

2008-09 Susan Tyner

2007-08 Carol Tower

2006-07 Suzanne Butler

2005-06 Kim McFarland

2004-05 Jimmie Gale Berg

2003-04 Shannon Dahlke

2002-03 Sandra J. Waters

2001-02 Judy Walker

2000-01 Toni Campbell

1999-00 Marti Powell

1998-99 Anna Maria Kizer

1997-98 Susana Ramirez

1996-97 Robbie M. Cranford*

1995-96 Linda Attaway*

1994-95 Diana Beith

1993-94 Valarie Bullock

1992-93 Liz Patterson*

1991-92 Elaine Wolfe

1990-91 Pat O'Neal*

1989-90 Dorine Fine*

1988-89 Becki Tucker

1987-88 Barbara Bridges

1986-87 Toni Williams

1985-86 Sharon Edge*

1984-85 Mary Gunn

1983-84 Nelda Willis*

1982-83 Lottie Harmon

1981-82 Frances Reeves*

1980-81 Betty Turner

1979-80 Rosa Lee Evans*

1978-79 Claire Bledsoe*

1977-78 Hazel Andrews*

1976-77 Vera Kietzer*

1975-76 Lavernne Williams*

1974-75 Janey Maeker*

1973-74 Laila Grant*

1972-73 Marie Shuler

1971-72 Marion White*

1970-71 Lola M. Brooks*

1969-70 Jane Jenkins*

1968-69 Mary Louise McDaniel

1967-68 Lucy Fewell*

1966-67 Mary Campanella*

1965-66 Jane Cyva*

1964-65 Jessie Eubank*

1963-64 Mellie Powell*

1962-63 Isabel Martin*

1961-62 Wanda Dannelly*

1960-61 Glenn Epstein*

1959-60 Jewell S. Tindall*

1958-59 Polly Lewis*

1957-58 Beatrice Greenfield*

1956-57 Lera Penrod*

1955-56 Lucie M. Lillis*

1954-55 Nina N. Copus*

1953-54 Alyce Schwab*

1952-53 Faye A. Schnuriger*

1951-52 Vina Meier*

1950-51 Natalie Murphy*

1949-50 Mary Doug Stephens*

1948-49 Ann Barker*

1947-48 Merle P. Stieler*

1946-47 Edith O Buckmann*

1945-46 Sally Walsh Downs*

1944-45 Ruth Fredde Bookout*

Federation of Insurance Women of Texas

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