The Daily Record selected Krista Hickman, Principal, KatzAbosch to receive one of the 2020 Leading Women awards.

The Daily Record’s Leading Women awards honor women who are 40 years of age or younger for the accomplishments they have made so far in their careers. A panel of previous Top 100 Women and Leading Women winners selected the honorees based on their professional experience, community involvement and commitment to inspiring change.

The Daily Record launched the Leading Women awards in 2010 to recognize the next generation of Maryland’s women leaders.

Nominees for Leading Women were asked to complete an application that outlined their education and career history; examples of mentoring, career-related officer and board memberships in professional, business or trade organizations; volunteer involvement in civic and nonprofit organizations; awards and honors; professional accomplishments; and commitment to inspiring change in their organization or the community.

"This year's Leading Women are professionally accomplished, involved in their communities and committed to making a difference and inspiring change," said Suzanne Fischer-Huettner, group publisher of The Daily Record. "They are the next generation of leaders in Maryland, and The Daily Record is pleased to recognize their achievements."

The winners will be honored Dec. 1 at a virtual celebration from 6 to 7 p.m. at https://thedailyrecord.com/leading-women/. Each of the winners will be celebrated for their achievements through video storytelling. Guests will have the opportunity to participate in the program with their congratulations and cheers using social media platforms from their homes or offices. For tickets, visit https://thedailyrecord.com/leading-women/. The event hashtag is #TDRevents.

Winners will be profiled in a special magazine that will be inserted into the Dec. 2 issue of The Daily Record and available online at www.TheDailyRecord.com.

Sponsors of The Daily Record’s 2020 Leading Women awards include Recognition Sponsor Keswick and Virtual Celebration Sponsors Epsilon Registration and VPC, Inc. Bank of America and Keswick are Diamond Anniversary Sponsors for the 25th anniversary of Maryland’s Top 100 Women in 2020.

For more information about sponsorships and tickets for The Daily Record’s 2020 Leading Women awards, visit www.TheDailyRecord.com or call 443-524-8161.

About KatzAbosch

Founded in 1969, KatzAbosch is one of the largest CPA and business consulting organizations in the region. Our mission is to provide the highest quality accounting, tax, financial and management consulting services to our clients. We understand the needs and challenges of our clients. Our commitment to clients is to Create, Grow and Protect asset value. KatzAbosch is consistently named a Best Accounting Firm to Work For in Accounting Today and one of the Top Workplaces in The Baltimore Sun. Our firm is also ranked among the Top 15 Largest Accounting Firms in the Baltimore Area by the Baltimore Business Journal.

About The Daily Record

Celebrating 132 years of journalistic excellence, The Daily Record is a multimedia news source that publishes a print and online edition five days a week and breaks news daily on its website, TheDailyRecord.com. In addition, The Daily Record publishes more than 30 special products a year including Women Who Lead, Doing Business in Maryland, Way to Be and Expanding Opportunities. The Daily Record also honors leading Marylanders through 10 annual awards events including Maryland's Top 100 Women, Influential Marylanders and Most Admired CEOs. Its Digital Marketing Solutions helps customers with social media, search engine marketing and optimization, retargeting, email marketing and more. The Daily Record is part of BridgeTower Media, one of the country’s leading business-to-business media companies with 44 print and digital publications in more than 20 U.S. markets.

2020 Leading Women Honorees

• Margia A. Arguello, Johns Hopkins University
• Emily E. Arneson, Kennedy Krieger Institute
• Lauren Asghari, Alderson Loop LLC
• Amy Basta, SECU
• Dr. Hoda Bastani, Johns Hopkins HealthCare, LLC
• Rebekah Brown, CPA, Maryland Association of CPAs/The Business Learning Institute
• Sarah E. Brown, Hillman, Brown & Darrow, P.A.
• Kimberly Coleman, Baltimore City Public Schools
• Rachel Druckenmiller, Unmuted LLC
• Dr. Samantha DuFlo, Indigo Physiotherapy
• Diana Mitchell Emerson, Junior Achievement of Central Maryland and HARBEL Community Organization
• Garima Bhatt Handley, Higher Achievement Baltimore
• Stacey Herman, Kennedy Krieger Institute
• Therese McGucken Hessler, Ashlar Government Relations
• Caroline Hickam, American Heart Association
• Krista A. Hickman, CPA, CCIFP, KatzAbosch
• Amritha Jaishankar, MSCRF/TEDCO
• Bree Jones, Parity
• Katherine Koustenis, Howard Bank
• Ashlene Larson, Planit
• Jessica E. McClain, Brand USA
• Detra Miller, M&T Bank
• Heather Murphy, Harford County Chamber of Commerce
• Marlene Okojie, Sparksoft Corporation
• Chelsea Ortega, Santoni, Vocci & Ortega LLC
• Katrina Dixon Patterson, District of Columbia Government Department on Disability Services
• Shaney E. Pendleton, All Walks of Life LLC
• Sydney Stinson Powell, Department of Defense Consolidated Adjudication Facility (DoDCAF) Defense Counterintelligence Security Administration (DCSA)
• The Honorable Emily Shetty, Maryland General Assembly
• Allison Taylor, Kaiser Permanente
• Brittany L. Young, B-360 STEM Education Program