Inside Business recognizes 2025 Women in Business honorees

December 15, 2025

Inside Business has honored influential female business leaders in Hampton Roads for 23 years. By honoring these 23 women, we seek to encourage them and other women to trust their abilities, strengthen their self-confidence and become thought leaders and trailblazers in our region.

These achievement awards celebrate women who are successful in their businesses and careers, contribute to the community and local economy, and serve as mentors and examples to others. Our hope is this recognition will spur them on to even greater things.

The recipients were honored at a dinner and awards presentation at the The Westin Virginia Beach Town Center on Dec. 10.

Special thanks to special section editor Ron Crow. Photos are by Amanda MacDiarmid. More information: virginiamedia.com/women-in-business.

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The judges

Amanda MacDiarmid/Freelance

Barbara Blake (Amanda MacDiarmid/For Inside Business)

Barbara A. Blake

Executive director, Monarch Internship and Co-Op Office, Monarch Humanities Internship Academy; senior research fellow, The Dragas Center for Economic Analysis and Policy, Old Dominion University

Women in Business Class of 2022

Michelle Ellis Young (Amanda MacDiarmid/For Inside Business)

Michelle Ellis Young

CEO, YWCA South Hampton Roads

Women in Business Class of 2024

Courtesy

Stephanie Gorham, chief development officer, United Way of South Hampton Roads (Hampton Roads Chamber)

Stephanie Gorham

Chief development officer, United Way of South Hampton Roads

Women in Business Class of 2021

Laura Henderson (Laura Henderson)

Laura A. Henderson

Founder/owner, BizConnect Hampton Roads

Women in Business Class of 2019

Amanda MacDiarmid/Freelance

Virginia Thumm (Amanda MacDiarmid/For Inside Business)

Virginia Thumm

President, Virginia Fundraising Consultants

Women in Business Class of 2021

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Honorees

Jocelyn Bamford
Dr. Heidi Best
Tiffany Boyle
Alison Byrne
Lakeisha Carey
Lauren Conner
Dena Corr
Camille Crofton Cherry
Latonya English
Jennifer Goff
Ute Heidenreich
Brenda Elliott Karp
Chanell Ketchmore
Ha Koehler
Sarah Linden-Brooks
Nicole Newsome
Carolyn Pittman
Kieran Sherlock Poulos
Adrianna Rivera
Marcia Stewart
April Strickland
Charvalla West
Leah Williams-Rumbley

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