2024 Winners Announced!

In the spirit of our mission of connecting and empowering women working in the energy industry, Women in Energy is proud to announce the 2024 winners of this  inspiring award, the “Judy Garber Rising Star Award”.

This award recognizes two, up-and-coming professional women that have less than eight years in the energy industry and show great promise of becoming our future industry and community leaders. The award has been named in honor of Judy Garber to recognize her long career in the energy industry and contributions to the energy and dedication to the industry as a founder of Women in Energy and its creation seven years ago.

About our winners:

Our first winner is Nicole Glase.  Nicole is the Director of Sales and Marketing at Clyde S. Walton, Inc., Lansdale, PA.  She was nominated by Kristen Smith.  Kristen shares she nominated Nicole because of her resilience, adaptability, creativity, passion and her strong desire to learn.  She currently serves as our Association Secretary and membership committee – handling our social media efforts and, she is currently a mentor in our new Mentorship Program.

Nicole Glase, Clyde S Walton

She was instrumental in getting her mentee to attend our conference join Women in Energy.  At Clyde S. Walton Company, Nicole plans and executes their marketing strategies and oversees the HVAC and marketing teams.  She helps with onboarding and training throughout the company.

When asked about what things she has done to drive change, she responded, “I established an Activity and Service Committee within our company to improve employee relations between office and field employees.  It is designed to boost morale and drive company culture.”  She believes that energy will continue to evolve providing greater access to fuel sources and renewables.  She also believes the workforce will change as well.

Nicole is a graduate of Penn State University with a BS in Organizational Leadership.  She and her husband are raising their two young children.

Our second winner is Hailie Newman, Acct Executive for EV Charging Solutions.  Her main responsibility is being an EV charging educator & project manager.  Hailie was nominated by Brian Clark, Executive Director of Kentucky Petroleum Marketers Association.  Brian shared, “Hailie is a natural leader with excellent communication skills, very compassionate and a person of high integrity.”  She is known to be an outstanding volunteer for their state association and, a strong autism advocate.

Hailie was from KY until recently when she and her family moved to Texas.  Having found little support within KY for her 5-year old son, she formed a support group to support other moms of children with Autism.  Together they are working to pass a state resolution for Autism task force to move KY from being one of the 5 bottom states to raise a children with autism.

When asked about what she believes the Energy Industry will look like in 10 years, Hailie replied, “there will be major utility updates, key manufacturers and software providers identified and service support will be easily accessible.”  And she is honored to be part of this change.

Hailie is a graduate of Eastern KY University with a BS in Apparel Design & Merchandising.  She is an EPIC Leadership Program graduate.

We congratulate both of our Rising Stars of 2024!