Outstanding Woman in AACE International

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The Outstanding Woman in AACE International is to honor a woman who has achieved success through significant accomplishments in the industry and within AACE International. The candidate shall have chosen a career path that is focused on the advancement of AACE’s precepts of total cost management.  Membership in AACE is required.

 

Outstanding Woman in AACE International Winners

2025
  • Dayna Anderson
2024
  • Tracy Leung, P.Eng.
2023
  • Nicole Johnson, CEP
2022
  • Lucia Vernon
2021
  • Jessica Colbert, PSP
2020
  • Kimberly D. Forbes, PSP
2019
  • Cindy Whitmill, PSP
2018
  • Beth Miller, PSP
2017
  • Debbie Richards, PSP
2016
  • Pamela DeGraaf
2015
  • Marina G. Sominsky, PSP
2014
  • Carla Lopez del Puerto CCP
2013
  • Kristy Kastner, PSP
2012
  • Viola L. Pancratz
2011
  • Hannah E. Schumacher, PSP
2010
  • Niyi Ladipo CCP EVP
2009
  • Susan B. Zimmerman, CCE
2008
  • Anna Tremblay
Dayna Anderson Outstanding Woman in AACE award picture
 

Dayna Anderson – Dayna has been a member of AACE since 2003. She has served in a variety of leadership roles within the Chicago-Midwest Section, serving most notably as president (2016-2018). She has been active on the Membership Advisory Committee since 2020 as Vice Chair and Director-Region 4 (Midwest USA). Dayna has presented technical papers at the Conference & Expo and was the lead of the 2023 Tuesday Keynote session “COVID-Related Claims and the Challenges of Measuring Associated Impacts”.  She is a Certified Management Accountant and Certified Fraud Examiner and has testified in federal court, as well as arbitration, related to economic damages. Dayna is a Senior Managing Director, Commercial Damages & Investigation at VERTEX.

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