Finalist: Jean Gonzalez

CEO & President
South Coast College

Jean Gonzalez has had a positive impact on thousands of women in Orange County and the state of California by dedicating her life to preparing them for careers in court and deposition reporting, broadcast and website real-time captioning, Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART), and other settings such as corporate boardrooms, city councils, and agency hearings where exact transcriptions of meetings or hearings are required.

As the director of South Coast College, Gonzalez has prepared thousands of women and men for lucrative careers in the academically and vocationally challenging profession of court reporting in which six-figure incomes for this female-dominated profession are not uncommon. She did not stop there. She discovered that there was a need for highly trained medical assistants and paralegals. Gonzalez developed career training programs to serve those fields as well.