director of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. Mia Hamm was the first woman inducted into the World Football Hall of Fame in Pachuca, Mexico. General Motors named Mary Barra as its first female CEO and the first female CEO of a major automaker. Deborah Rutter was named as the first female president of the Kennedy Center. Jodi Eller was the first woman to complete the 1,515 mile Florida Circumnavigational Saltwater Paddling Trail. The American Council of the Blind (ACB) voted unanimously to elect Kim Charlson as its president, making her the first female president of a major national blindness consumer advocacy organization in the United States. Lauren Silberman was the first woman to try out at an NFL Regional Scouting Combine, and thus the first woman to try out for the NFL (she tried out as a kicker), but she did not succeed. Vanessa O'Brien became the first woman to climb the highest peak on each continent (The Seven Summits) in the shortest period of time (295 days), resulting in a Guinness World Record. 2014 February 3 - Janet Yellen became the first woman to serve as Chair of the Federal Reserve. The first women competed in ski jumping at the Olympics, including three American women - Lindsey Van, Jessica Jerome and Sarah Hendrickson. Lauryn Williams was the first American woman to win a medal in both the Summer and Winter Olympic games. Jennifer Welter was the first woman non-kicker or placekick-holder to play in a men's pro football game; she played running back for the Texas Revolution. Michelle J. Howard began her assignment as the U.S. Navy's first female and first female African-American four-star admiral on July 1, 2014. Michele A. Roberts was elected as the new Executive Director of the National Basketball Players Association, thus making her the first woman elected to the highest position of a major U.S. sport's players association. During the two-week 2014 NBA Summer League in Las Vegas, Natalie Nakase was an assistant coach for the Clippers, becoming the first woman to sit on the bench as an NBA assistant. Becky Hammon became the first full-time female coach in the NBA - and the first full-time female coach in any of the four major professional sports in America - as an assistant coach for the San Antonio Spurs. Anne B. France won the inaugural Landmark Award for Outstanding Contributions to NASCAR. Katie Higgins was