Board of Trustees

The Trustees consist of champion female athletes, prominent businesspersons, major benefactors and leaders of women's sports organizations. They establish fiscal policy, assist in the acquisition of adequate financial and human resources and oversee the accomplishment of the Foundation goals and objectives. A nine-person executive committee meets monthly and the full board meets three times per year.

Officers /  Executive Committee

Billie Jean King , Founder and Honorary Chair
2009 Recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom

Kathryn Olson
Chief Executive Officer, Women's Sports Foundation

Sandra Vivas, Chair of the Board
Vice-President – Advocacy
President and CEO,
Beyond Boundaries, Inc./Athletic Link.com

Benita Fitzgerald Mosley, Past Chair
Chief of Sport Performance, USA Track and Field,
Olympic gold medalist, Track & Field

Stephanie Tolleson, Past Chair
Former Senior Corporate Vice President of the International Management Group

Ilana Kloss, Past Chair
CEO/Commissioner, Mylan World TeamTennis

Angela Ruggiero, President
Olympic Gold Medalist, Ice Hockey

Laila Ali, Past-President
World champion athlete
Celebrity host and correspondent

Stephen H. Whisnant, Vice President – Treasurer, Legal and Finance
Director of Philanthropy, National Democratic Institute

Terri Austin,Vice President – Human Capital and Governance
Chief Diversity Officer, The McGraw-Hill Companies

Larry Scott, Vice President – Strategic Planning
Commissioner, Pac-12 Conference

Sarah Robb O'Hagan, Vice President – Marketing-at-Large
President, Equinox

Board of Trustees

Jean Afterman
Senior Vice President, Assistant General Manager, New York Yankees

Dane Andreeff
Founder/Managing Partner, Andreeff Equity Advisors, LLC

Tamika Catchings
Two-time Olympic gold medalist, Basketball

Kelley Cornish
Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Lisa M. Cregan,
Managing Director, Complex Director, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney

Christine Driessen
EVP and Chief Financial Officer,
ESPN, Inc.

Jean Picker Firstenberg
President Emerita, American Film Institute

Shawn Johnson  
Olympic gold medalist and World Champion, Gymnastics

Eric Kaufman
President, Premier Sports and Entertainment

Susan S. Hassan
Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom LLP

Sharon Love
CEO, The Promotion Network, Inc. (TPN)

Jessica Mendoza
Two time Olympic medalist, three-time World Cup champion, two-time Pan American Games gold medalist, Softball

Yvonne Middleton
 Chairman, Middleton & Gendron, Inc.

Becky Morgan
President, Morgan Family Foundation

Susan Morrison
Former Advertising Executive

Aimee Mullins
World record holder, Paralympian, Track & Field

Kenneth Shropshire
David W. Hauck Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the Faculty Director of its newly launched Wharton Sports Business Initiative