Jill Tietjen
Jill Tietjen (Engr ’76 CM)
Jill S. Tietjen (Engr ’76 CM) has published Duty Calls: Lessons Learned from an Unexpected Life of Service, a memoir co-authored with the first female and first Hispanic U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. Antonia Novello. Dr. Novello recounts her childhood illness and her life of service as well as lessons learned – as U.S. Surgeon General, as Commissioner of the Department of Health for the State of New York during 9/11, and through hurricanes, earthquakes, and the pandemic in her native Puerto Rico.
Jill Tietjen (Engr ’76 CM)
Jill Tietjen (Engr ’76 CM) has an upcoming book titled Over, Under, Around, and Through: How Hall of Famers Surmount Obstacles, which will be released May 3, 2022 by Fulcrum Publishing. The book provides the secrets of how Hall of Famers overcame the obstacles in their lives to become stronger, smarter and more resilient. The stories in the book show how the fifty successful women, inductees into Halls of Fame in the U.S. and around the world, used ten key characteristics either singly or in combination to surmount the many obstacles that they faced in their lives: mental intelligence, emotional intelligence, social support, moral compass/spirituality, determination/perseverance/persistence, optimism, creativity, resilience, action-orientation and passion.
Jill Tietjen (Engr ’76 CM)
Jill Stein Tietjen (Engr ’76 L/M) was inducted into the Colorado Authors’ Hall of Fame in the 2019 inaugural class. Her latest book, Hollywood: Her Story, An Illustrated History of Women and the Movies, was released in 2019.
Jill Tietjen (Engr ’76 CM)
Jill Tietjen (Engr 76 L/M) was recognized as a 20th anniversary Woman of Distinction by the Girl Scouts of Colorado. Ms. Tietjen was honored for her advocacy for women and girls. She is the president and CEO of Technically Speaking, Inc.
Jill Tietjen (Engr ’76 CM)
Jill Tietjen (Engr ’76 CM) has been named by Women’s eNews as one of that organization’s “21 Leaders for the 21st Century.” The awards honor advocates for women and girls in sectors including teen education and women’s philanthropy. In 1991, Ms. Tietjen nominated pioneering computer scientist Grace Hooper for the National Medal of Technology, and Ms. Hooper became the first woman to receive that award. Ms. Tietjen has since nominated women for other awards in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields as a strategy for encouraging women to enter those fields. She has successfully nominated 25 women from the STEM fields to the National Women’s Hall of Fame and was the Hall of Fame’s CEO in 2015.
Jill Tietjen (Engr ’76 CM)
Jill Tietjen (Engr ’76 CM) has been re-elected outside director for the Georgia Transmission Corp. board of directors, a position she has held since 1996. The not-for-profit cooperative owns more than 3,000 miles of high-voltage transmission lines and more than 600 substations, delivering power to more than 4.1 million Georgians.
Jill Tietjen (Engr ’76 CM)
Jill Tietjen (Engr ’76 CM) has been named chief executive officer of the National Women’s Hall of Fame, which is located in Seneca Falls, New York. She has a long affiliation with the hall, having attended every induction ceremony since 1994, and has served on the hall’s board of directors since 2009, most recently as president.
Jill Tietjen (Engr ’76 CM)
Jill Tietjen (Engr ’76 CM) received the 2012 Daughters of the American Revolution History Award Medal for her book Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America. The DAR bestows the award on an individual or group whose study and/or promotion of some aspect of the American past has significantly advanced the understanding of American history.
Jill Tietjen (Engr ’76 CM)
Jill Tietjen (Engr ’76 L/M) was re-elected to the Georgia Transmission Corporation board of directors and will serve a three-year term. She has served as an outside director on the GTC board since 1997. GTC is a not-for-profit cooperative owned by 39 Electric Membership Corporations in Georgia. Ms. Tietjen is president and chief executive officer of Technically Speaking, a trustee of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Virginia and chairs the board of advisors of the Colorado Coalition on Gender and Information Technology. She is featured in the book, Changing Our World – True Stories of Women Engineers, and co-authored the best-selling book, Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America.