lifetime achievement The Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes a woman who has demonstrated leadership throughout her career. She has achieved a measure of success and, consequently, has motivated, stimulated, encouraged and mentored other Cache Valley Women. The age designation is important, because it counters society’s emphasis on youth in America and educates that people live very active and productive lives in “later” years. five doctoral students and has served on the advisory committees of 12 other students, and has mentored an additional 11 undergrad researchers. What is especially remarkable about Dr. French’s record is the skill which she has reconciled her very high level of professional achievement with the demands of her family life. Her research includes not only lab investigations, but also rigorous and demanding field studies, often in remote regions. She has balanced those competing demands in an especially successful manner, said Dr. Alan Savitsky, Biology Department Head.
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ill Anderson is the director for Cache Valley - based Citizens Against Physical and Sexual Abuse (CAPSA), and is the 2016 recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award. Several community members wrote about her success and talent in affecting change in the community and state throughout her 20-years at the Center. “Jill is a caring, responsible individual with a business acumen that, had she chosen private enterprise, she would be leading a Forbes 500 company. Yes, she’s that good. She brought the staff and volunteers as well as the Board out of what looked and felt like a train wreck to the smooth running operation it is today.” - C. Val Grant, former CAPSA board member. CAPSA helps 800 or so women, children and men a year who have been subjected to domestic and
sexual abuse. Jill has expanded psychological therapy in the past year and is working to run the first shelter in Utah to have zero-turn-aways. Jill is currently partnered with local law enforcement in running a pilot program on the Lethality assessment (LAP) helping officers to identify those domestic partners who are at a high risk of being killed by a domestic partner. In the past year, under Anderson’s direction, CAPSA has raised over $800,000 dollars in fundraising, completed a nine-home transitional housing neighborhood, and quadrupled the Center’s therapy program.
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