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Judge Tower is final speaker in TCC’s “Women as Caretakers” lecture series on April 29

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – (April 23, 2004) – Tidewater Community College’s Women’s Center concludes its Spring Lecture Series, Women as Caretakers: Tradition, Challenges and Changes, with a talk by the Honorable Winship Tower, Juvenile and Domestic Relations Courts of Virginia Beach, on April 29, 12:30 p.m., at the Virginia Beach Campus, Cafeteria Annex.

TCC’s Women’s Center – celebrating its 10th anniversary – chose the topic of caregiving for its continuing impact on today’s society. Women have held the role of caregivers throughout history, often with great courage and at great cost. Some have used this role to reach a wider level of society, influencing institutional and governmental policies.

Judge Tower served on the Joint Subcommittee of the Virginia General Assembly to Study the Establishment of a Domestic Relations Division in the Judicial Circuits of the Commonwealth. She has been named a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and a “Woman of Distinction” by the YWCA of South Hampton Roads.

Women As Caregivers: Tradition, Challenges and Changes is free and reservations are not required. For more information, call the Women’s Center at 757-822-1538 or go to www.tcc.edu/womenscenter.

Tidewater Community College is the second largest of the 23 community colleges in the Commonwealth of Virginia, enrolling more than 34,000 students annually. The 37th largest in the nation's 1,600 community-college network, TCC ranks among the 50 fastest-growing large community colleges. Founded in 1958 as a part of the Virginia Community College System, the college serves the South Hampton Roads region with campuses in Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth and Virginia Beach as well as the TCC Jeanne and George Roper Performing Arts Center in the theater district in downtown Norfolk and a regional Advanced Technology Center in Virginia Beach. Forty-three percent of the region's residents attending a college or university in Virginia last fall were enrolled at TCC.