Violet palmer biography of michael
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The NBA's five full-time women referees are changing the game, but this is just the beginning
Ben Dowsett, contributing writer
Lauren Holtkamp-Sterling remembers feeling vulnerable, but not intimidated.
It was early in Holtkamp-Sterling's young basketball officiating career, years before she'd ascend to the NBA level. The setting was a local recreation center in her home state of Missouri, where she'd previously played four years of college basketball at Drury University before becoming a referee. Holtkamp-Sterling, now 40, had just finished officiating a youth boy's game as the solo referee.
As the buzzer sounded, the father of one of the boys in the game approached and accosted her over her gender.
"[He] confronted me and told me I didn't belong there, working that game," Holtkamp-Sterling recounted years later. "In that moment, he was being very clear -- there was no micro-aggression or anything: 'I'm going to tell you exactly that I don't think you belong here doing this.'"
While that was the most overtly negative experience Holtkamp-Sterling recalls from her career, it wasn't the only one. She struggled at times with the constant demands from those she encountered, both stated and implied, to justify herself or explain her pursuit of
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Palmer, Violet
1964–
Professional basketball referee
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Palmer, Michael A.
PERSONAL: Married; children: two. Education: Temple University, Ph.D, 1981.
ADDRESSES: Home—Greenville, NC. Office—Department of History Program in Maritime Studies, Brewster A-315, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858. E-mail—[email protected].
CAREER: Naval Historical Center, Washington, DC, assistant editor, 1983–86, assistant head of contemporary history, 1986–; East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, professor of history, 1991–, chair of department, 1999–. Military service: U.S. Navy, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, worked in Strategic Concepts Group.
AWARDS, HONORS: Meritorious Civilian Service medal, U.S. Department of the Navy, 1991; Samuel Eliot Morison Award for naval literature, and Book of the Year Award, American Revolutionary War Round Table of New York, both for Stoddert's War: Naval Operations during the Quasi-War with France, 1798–1801; Moncado Prize, Society for Military History.
WRITINGS:
Stoddert's War: Naval Operations during the Quasi-War with France, 1798–1801, University of South Carolina Press (Columbia, SC), 1987, with new introduction, Naval Institute Press (Annapolis, MD), 2000.
Origins of Maritime Strategy: American Naval Strategy in the First Postwar Decade, Naval Historica