Judy Singleton is a businesswomen, political activist, wife and mother. Named one of Indianapolis' "Most Influential Women" in 1997 by the Indianapolis Business Journal, Singleton has been active in promoting women in business, politics and the community for the past 20 years.

Singleton is a trailblazer in her own right. She was one of the first female commercial real estate brokers in Indiana, and she has known and studied other women trailblazers for years. In 1983 she was invited to Kennedy Space Center to watch the historic launch of the space shuttle Challenger with astronaut Sally Ride aboard -- America's first woman in space.

In 1994 Singleton spent a weekend on the aircraft carrier USS Eisenhower where she interviewed the first two women to be permanently assigned to a battleship in the history of the U.S. Navy, and in that same year she also helped Sue Anne Gilroy become the first woman Indiana Secretary of State. In 1995 she was invited to train women leaders in Romania on how to maximize their input in building a new democracy.

A partner of Singleton Assocs., LLC, a commercial real estate investment firm, Singleton is a 1978 charter member and past-president of the Network of Women in Business. In 1988-89 she served as Indiana coordinator for the national Vietnam Women's Memorial Project. In 1990 she co-founded the Richard G. Lugar Excellence in Public Service Series, a political leadership program designed to increase the number of Republican women in key elected and appointed positions. The Lugar Series has been nationally recognized and has been used as a model for starting similar programs in other states.

In recognition of her efforts to improve the lives of women, Singleton received Big Sister's first "Corporate Mentor Award" in 1997 and Purdue's "Community Service Award" in 1993.

In her first effort to record the stories of trailblazers she chose to focus on Hoosiers. "I am a seventh generation Hoosier, and I wanted to do something for the women of Indiana. Hoosier women trailblazers are owed a debt of gratitude and a place in our history books."