FORT WORTH COMMISSION FOR WOMEN ANNOUNCES OUTSTANDING WOMEN OF FORT WORTH

US Fed News Service, Including US State News | February 21, 2009 | Copyright

FORT WORTH, Texas, Feb. 20 -- The city of Fort Worth issued the following press release:

The Fort Worth Commission for Women continues its annual tradition of honoring exemplary women in the field of advocacy for women's issues at a presentation of Outstanding Women of Fort Worth on March 3 at 5:30 p.m. in the cafeteria on the third floor of City Hall. Honorees will also be presented at a City Council meeting at 7 p.m. that same day.

The Fort Worth City Council created the Fort Worth Commission for Women in 1983 to act in an advisory capacity to the Council and to study women's issues that ...

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