Board Members

Pamela has lived in Alaska since 1994. She is a small business owner, Bovey Trophies, located in the heart of mid-town Anchorage. She is a member of the International Awards and Personalization Association, and is the only Certified Recognition Specialist and first female in the State of Alaska. She has been a member of the Zonta Club of Anchorage since 2003 and has served on the board as President, Secretary, Treasurer, and Director. She has served as President of the Zonta Yellow Rose Foundation. She served as President of Willow Crest PTA 2018-2019 and 2019-2020.  She has been a member of the Alaska Women’s Hall of Fame since 2009. She has served as Secretary and is now serving as President.

Pat Jarrett has been an Alaskan resident for 50+ years.  She has been a member of the Zonta Club of Anchorage since 2006, serving on the board of directors and two terms as president. She joined the AKWHOF board in 2006 and currently serves as vice president.  Pat enjoys her semi-retirement, volunteering, reading, baking and making jams and jellies. She considers being a member of both Zonta and AKWHOF an honor because of the wonderful connections made over the years.  

Anchorage-born and raised, Bonnie is a founding board member and treasurer of AK WHoF. She is a landlady for three duplexes and has always been actively involved in her community. She has been a member of the Anchorage ATHENA Society since 2007, and served as the volunteer administrator for 10 years. She is the founding member of the stock investment club, FYI, and has participated in numerous local, state, and federal political campaigns and initiatives throughout her life. She is also the mother of adult boy-girl twins and grandmother of two plus a surrogate grandson.

As Associate Professor, then Director at the UAA School of Nursing, Berner supervised three nursing programs with over 500 enrolled students. After reconfiguring the Family Nurse Practitioner Program to continue to meet national standards, she developed and implemented the first doctoral level program offered independently by the UAA campus, the Doctorate in Nursing Practice. This highest-level degree provides nurses the opportunity to participate more fully in making policy improvements to quality health care both within their communities and statewide. Berner shaped policy to improve healthcare services to Alaskans in many areas by her participation in professional leadership positions in local, regional, and national organizations, including Alaska Youth Advocates (President, 7 years), Alaska Nurse Practitioner Association (President, 5 years), Alaska State Board of Nursing (Chair, 2 years), and the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (Board of Directors, 4 years, President, 1 year). In her 43 years of nursing practice in Alaska, which included a clinical practice, Berner has been an inspiration to her students and colleagues. She was inducted into the Alaska Women’s Hall of Fame in 2022. Her legacy will continue. She began serving on the board as director in 2023.

Jane is a founding Board member of the AK Women’s Hall of Fame. She has been involved in community development and resource management for the past four decades, working with Alaska Native organizations, state and local governments, and nonprofit entities across Alaska to develop programs that enrich communities. She has also actively recruited and trained women to run for elected office. Jane was inducted into the Alaska Women’s Hall of Fame in 2014.

Gretchen Kelly has dedicated her career to Alaska and its people. She has served both in state government capacities as well as an educator and principal. She considers herself a lifelong Alaskan,  although technically, she relocated to Alaska at age five. Gretchen has six children and often spends her free time chopping wood, camping, or gardening.  She also volunteers with the Zonta Alaska chapter supporting women and children. Began serving on the Alaska Women’s Hall of Fame Board in 2024.

Her work career began as a youth reporter for the Fairbanks Daily News Miner, graduating into a full-fledged reporter and photographer. She garnered awards for her press work, edited a weekly Native Alaska newspaper, and served as executive producer of two Emmy-award-winning documentaries on Alaska history. Perdue attended Stanford University, earning a degree in biology. She worked on the Trans Alaska pipeline to pay tuition and learned how to get along with a wide range of people and to stand up for herself in a male workforce. She served as an Assistant Press Secretary and legislative aide to Senator Ted Stevens while the significant battleground legislation about Alaska land designations (ANILCA) was passed. Perdue served under four governors, beginning with Governor Hammond as Deputy Commissioner and Commissioner of the Department of Health and Social Services, and was the longest-serving DHSS Commissioner since statehood. She expanded health insurance for thousands of pregnant women and children, beefed up care for the mentally ill and disabled, and strengthened public health. She served a decade as the VP of Health Programs at the University of Alaska, where she received her Honorary Doctorate of Laws in 2017 and currently serves on the Board of Regents. Perdue is passionate about the North, its people, and history. She led two award-winning projects: 1) to celebrate the 50^th year of Alaska’s Constitution, and 2) to remember the mentally ill sent out of Alaska for care. In addition, she spent a decade serving as a US representative to the Arctic Council. She was inducted into the Alaska Women’s Hall of Fame in 2022 and began serving as a director on the board in 2024.