Pam Bondi Names Four to Commission on Status of Women

Attorney General Pam Bondi has appointed Charlotte Danciu and Yvonne Fry, while reappointing Nancy Peek McGowen and Anne Voss, to the Florida Commission on the Status of Women.

The 22-member Commission, created in 1991, makes recommendations to the governor, Cabinet and Legislature on issues that impact women.

According to a release from the attorney generals office:

Charlotte Danciu, of Boca Raton, is an attorney who practices family law, concentrating in the areas of private adoption, gestational surrogacy and traditional surrogacy, and all areas of reproductive law. Charlotte has been practicing law for more than 24 years and has handled more than 2,000 adoptions as well as several hundred surrogacy, reproductive law and nontraditional law matters. Charlotte has represented numerous clients from the United States and abroad. Danciu is recognized as an information source and expert in her field.

Danciu is a Florida State University Law School graduate and has a bachelors degree in exceptional child education from Florida Atlantic University. Danciu is a member of the Florida, Palm Beach County and South Palm Beach County Bar associations, as well as the Florida Association of Women Lawyers. She is a trained emergency medical technician, and in fulfillment of her love of the study of obstetrics and childbirth, she has attended over 40 births. Charlotte and her husband have a very special blended family. Charlotte has two daughters and Bill has two sons. Charlottes elder daughter, who is adopted, recently graduated from the exceptional student program at Boca Raton Community High.

Yvonne Fry, of Plant City, is a telecommunications and IT consultant. Fry presently serves as chair for the Hillsborough Commission on the Status of Women. Fry holds a bachelors degree from the University of Southern Mississippi. Fry was named (one of) Florida International Universitys Top 25 Women Entrepreneurs in Florida in 2011. Fry was also awarded the chairs award for service to women and children of domestic violence by the Spring of Tampa Bay in 2010. Fry is a member of the Athena Society, a Tampa Bay area womens professional organization. She is chair of the board of directors for the Spring of Tampa Bay, and she is chair of the Rainbow Ball for Child Abuse Council.

Nancy Peek McGowan, of Jacksonville, is a homemaker and community activist. She has a passion for public policy and was appointed to the Commission in 2008. McGowan began a career in politics in the United States Senate as a legislative intern while attending the University of Florida, where she obtained a bachelors degree in political science in 1982. Her community involvement includes serving as: a PTA board member, a 28-year lector in the Catholic Church, and a member of the executive board of the Justice Coalition. McGowan was recognized with an award from the Justice Coalition, along with Sen. Steve Wise and State Rep. Dick Kravitz, for her role in supporting the Final Closing Arguments legislation in 2006. McGowan also worked on the Mandatory Physical Fitness Act for public schools, which was signed into law in 2007. She is married to P. Ted McGowan and is the mother of five children.

Anne Voss, of Tampa, was appointed to the Commission in 2011. She graduated from Occidental College in Los Angeles with a bachelors degree in political science and was chosen to attend American University for an honors study program. She is the vice president of Strategic Solutions of Tampa, a political consulting firm, and she is the senior vice president of the Womens Political Network. Prior to her husbands retirement from the U.S. Army, Voss was coordinator for the U.S. Army Child Development Services at Picatinny Arsenal, N.J. and an assistant station manager for the American Red Cross in Pirmasens, Germany.

Voss was a Red Cross Volunteer for 16 years, and she was the president of the Armed Forces Industrial College Wives Club. She serves on the vestry of St. Johns Episcopal Church. Vosss awards include: Department of Army, Commanders Award for Civilian Service; Department of Army, Achievement Medal for Civilian Service; Department of Army, Commendation; and Red Cross Certificate of Recognition for 16 years of volunteer service.