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Weaving the Winds of Change.

Aug 28th, 2009  |  Categories:  Entrepreneur, Leadership, Potential
Emily Howell Warner
No Existing Path I graduated from Holy Family High School in 1957 with no real idea of what I wanted to do with my life. Thinking I might want to be a flight attendant, I took a short flight from Denver to Gunnison. In those days, being able to ride in the cockpit of an airplane, I asked if I could sit there on the way back to Denver. The minute I sat down in that jump seat, my life literally changed. The pilot suggested that since I liked flying so well, why didn’t I take flying lessons. “C…

Emily Howell Warner

Ms Emily Howell Warner – Living Legend of Aviation Recently honored as one of the “First Ladies of Air and Space,” at the Wings over the Rockies annual “Spreading Wings” gala event, Denver native Emily Howell Warner has a passion to fly. In 1973, she became the first female commercial airline pilot in the U.S. Ms. Warner opened the door for thousands of women pilots and has been a personal mentor and role model to many. Along the way she has won almost every aviation award given, including the Amelia Earhart Award as the Outstanding Woman in U. S. Aviation. She was the featured speaker for the United Nations Kickoff Dinner for International Women’s Year. In 1983 she was inducted into the Colorado Aviation Hall of Fame and is a 2001 inductee into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York. Now retired and living in Denver with her husband, her uniform is on display at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum.