Age: 51
Hometown: Glendale, Wis., a suburb of Milwaukee
Education: Graduated in 1978 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a bachelor's degree in retailing
Family: Bill, her college sweetheart and husband of 29 years, and Max, a 10-year-old yellow Lab
First retail job: She served on a teen board at Gimbels department store as a junior and senior in high school. She did everything from modeling to shadowing executives.
In her closet: A weakness for shoes
On her nightstand: BlackBerry, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Time, Newsweek, the New Yorker, Architectural Digest, and a note pad and pen to "write down those brilliant ideas that happen in the middle of the night."
In her spare time: Walking the dog, playing the flute, shopping for antiques and collectibles, watching sports events
A rookie at: golf
Rabid about: the Wisconsin Badgers and the Green Bay Packers
JACKIE CROSBY
Just as Lawrence Kazmerski, a top official at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, was about to give the keynote address at the University of Minnesota's annual E3 conference at the RiverCentre in St. Paul, the lights went out, bathing the audience in darkness and a deep sense of irony.
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