Dallas Leadership Luncheon
DLL Registration Now Open
Registration is open now to attend or sponsor the Dallas Leadership Luncheon. We hope you will join us!
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Carine M. Feyten, PhD
Chancellor and President, Texas Woman's University
Monica Christopher
President, TWU Dallas
Ralph Hawkins
Honorary Chair Emeritus
Lucy Billingsley
Honorary Chair
Luncheon Chairs
Lindsay Billingsley
Lucy Burns
Sumner Billingsley
Mary Anne Alhadeff
Nancy Best
Margaret Black
Froswa' Booker, PhD
Mary Brinegar
Lottye Brodsky-Lyle, PhD
Neva Cochran
Stephanie Collins
Roslyn Dawson Thompson
Diane Dillon
Laura V. Estrada
Host Committee
Cheryl Hall
Kathey Hesse Hannah
Mary Pat Higgins
Regen Horchow
Margaret & Lester Keliher
Dr. Sheila Kellagher
Sylvia Komatsu
Lynn McBee
Nadine Lee
Bets Lillo
Wendy Lopez & Connie Moorer
Cynthia Mickens Ross & David E. Ross III
Harriet Miers
Neena Newberry
Alfreda B. Norman
Barbara Nunneley
Patricia Rodriguez-Christian
Nancy Saustad
Cece Smith
Nicole Small
Michelle & Scott Vopni
Candace Winslow
Texas Woman’s University’s Dallas Leadership Luncheon and presentation of the 2026 Virginia Chandler Dykes Leadership Award will take place on Tuesday, February 17, 2026 at the Dallas Hilton Anatole. Lee Cullum will be recognized as the 2026 awardee.
The Dallas Leadership Luncheon, founded by Virginia Chandler Dykes, is a Texas Woman’s University signature event honoring one of Dallas’ most accomplished citizens, heightening the visibility of the university, and raising funds for graduate student scholarships. Scholarship funding is key to helping TWU attract the best and brightest graduate students from across the nation.
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Lee Cullum is a senior fellow at the John G. Tower Center for Public Policy and International Affairs and the Dallas Institute for Humanities and Culture. She contributes to the Dallas Morning News and Patron Magazine, and writes a column on Substack called La Vie en Orange. At one time she was a regular commentator on what is now the PBS News Hour and All Things Considered on NPR, as well as editor of the editorial page of the Dallas Times Herald. She has served on the board of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Council on Germany, the Pacific Council on International Policy and chaired the Dallas Committee on Foreign Relations. She currently is a member of the Trilateral Commission.
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Lili Clark
Lili Clark is a Senior Associate at Lyda Hill Philanthropies, where she supports biotech initiatives and the IF/THEN® Initiative to advance women in STEM. She helps lead the development of the region’s biotech ecosystem.
A Yale graduate, she previously worked at Goldman Sachs and is active in the Dallas community through the Southwestern Medical Foundation’s Cary Council and the Episcopal School of Dallas.
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