The WOMA Board

Deb Ferns – Chair

Deb Ferns has worked for more than two decades as a corporate meeting planner. She lives with her husband, Gary, and their two daughters in Tucson, Ariz. Her education includes an MBA, and she has won regional and national “entrepreneurial” business awards.

Her interest in firearms started on her 45th birthday, and a few years later, in 2004, she attended the first “ladies-only” shooting program offered by national handgun champion Kay Clark-Miculek. In 2005, Ferns joined efforts with Miculek, and they currently host ladies’ action shooting camps across the country called Babes with Bullets ™. Deb is the author of the book, Babes with Bullets Women Having Fun with Guns, and delivers motivational speeches across the U.S. based on the theme of “life outside your comfort zone.”

Deb also is a charter member of the Tucson Chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) and is a life member of Girl Scouts of America.

Deb enjoys a wide variety of shooting sports, though her favorite is three-gun tactical competitions utilizing a rifle, pistol and shotgun. She shares her passion for Hatha yoga by teaching it at the ladies’ handgun camps. Deb also enjoys horseback riding and water sports.

Email: deb@thewoma.com

Marsha Petrie Sue – President

Marsha Petrie Sue, MBA and Certified Speaking Professional, is known as the “accountability master” because she speaks on real-time communications techniques (including media training and presentation skills), conflict resolution, leadership and personal responsibility.

She is the recipient of the Certified Speaking Professional designation from the International Federation for Professional Speakers. Fewer than 10 percent of professional speakers are so designated.

Marsha’s latest book, Toxic People: Decontaminate Difficult People at Work Without Using Weapons or Duct Tape, is a best seller. She has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Cosmopolitan, Reuters, Investor’s Business Daily, Legal Management, The Business Journal and others. Toxic People has been translated into French, Romanian and Russian. She is also the author of several other books, including the award-winning CEO of YOU: Leading YOURSELF to Success.

Marsha is an angler, shooter, birder and all-around outdoorswoman. Marsha and her husband, Al, enjoy living in Scottsdale, Ariz., and escape the torture of summer by heading out to their cabin in the White Mountains near Alpine, Ariz. They enjoy working with The Antelope Foundation, the Wild Sheep Foundation and the Mule Deer Foundation migration projects.

Web site: www.MarshaPetrieSue.com
Blog: www.DecontaminateToxicPeople.com
Email: Marsha@MarshaPetrieSue.com

Melita Ellington – Vice President

Melita Ellington, a relative newcomer to the shooting sports venue, began competing in IDPA matches in early 2008, and has attended two Babes with Bullets™ camps.  She is now USPSA pistol match competitor, volunteers at area matches and Babes with Bullets™ camps, and enjoys an occasional outing to shoot sporting clays and trap.

Melita recently founded Magnolia Defense Enterprises, LLC, which specializes in training women in basic pistol skills and self defense.  Magnolia Defense caters to women and strives to provide women with a comfortable female-friendly environment to enter into shooting sports.

Melita is a legal secretary at a law firm in Atlanta, Ga.  She and her husband, Brian, reside in Conyers and are members of First Baptist Church Snellville where they are active in their Sportsmen’s Ministry.  They have a son, Corey, who is in the US Marine Corps and is stationed at Camp LeJeune with his wife Connie.  They also have two cats, Fred and Ethel.

Email: melita@thewoma.com

Chris Quam – Secretary

Chris Quam, of Fort Collins, Colo., graduated from Penn State in Forestry, and has worked for the National Park Service in Colorado and California.

Chris has worked for HIVIZ Shooting Systems for 10 years and currently is director of sales. When not traveling the country on company business, she shoots shotgun (skeet and sporting clays) and is the first lady skeet R.O. at her home range. A Member of ICORE, Christine competes and is an R.O. for the Rocky Mtn. Regional ICORE match. She also competes in action steel matches, Colorado State Steel Challenge and recently joined USPSA and participates in monthly local IPSC matches. She has also competed in Sportsman’s Team Challenge regional and national matches which include shotgun, pistol and rifle events.

Through HIVIZ, Christine helps support Babes with Bullets camps and CCW classes for
local women by offering scholarships to help those who may not otherwise be able to
attend.

Other interests include road biking and looking for new adventures and more recently, she
began scuba diving, now with 40+ dives and counting under her belt.

Email: chris@thewoma.com

Cindy Noyes – Treasurer

Formerly a software company executive, Cindy Noyes currently works for GLOCK, located outside Atlanta, Ga., as a rangemaster and firearms instructor. Since 1988, Cindy has participated in United States Practical Shooting Association (USPSA) competitions. She has won numerous Georgia and area championship ladies’ titles. At the national level, she has placed among the top eight ladies in several handgun divisions. She is also an avid competitor in three-gun competitions, enjoying the combination of pistol, rifle and shotgun.

Cindy and her husband, Bill, founded the South Atlanta Practical Shooting Club in 1989. For the past four years, she has served as match director for the USPSA in Area 6 competitions. She serves on the executive board of the South River Gun Club and is president of its local USPSA/International Practical Shooting Confederation (IPSC) club.

Cindy has been a participant in several Babes with Bullets Ladies Action Shooting Camps and recently became an instructor under the guidance of camp founder Kay Clark-Miculek. Another of her passions is sporting clays, and in 2001 she was honored as Sportswoman of the Year by the Georgia Sporting Clays Association’s Hall of Fame.

Cindy lives in Fayetteville, Ga., with her husband and a chocolate lab named Hershey. She has two married children and three grandsons, Charlie, Israel, and Joseph.

Email: cindy@thewoma.com

Larry Weeks – Director

Larry is the public relations and media relations manager at Brownells, where he has worked for more than 30 years. The Montezuma, Iowa, company is the world’s largest supplier of gunsmithing tools and firearms accessories. An NRA-certified range safety officer, Larry helps organize the annual Brownells-sponsored Babes with Bullets event, where he greatly enjoys helping women learn to shoot in a safe, professional, nonthreatening environment. Larry also enjoys pheasant and coyote hunting, and competes in USPSA three-gun events.

Email:  Larry@thewoma.com

Jaci Janes – Director

Jacqueline Janes is a relatively new shooter, taking up the sport in March of 2009 after attending the Arizona Game and Fish Department’s Outdoor Expo. While initially shy about shooting rifles and pistols, she has since devoted herself to learning about, and participating in, a wide variety of shooting sports. She is also actively interested in the shooting industry and is a passionate advocate of the Second

Amendment.

Jacqueline writes first-hand accounts of her shooting adventures, as well as what it’s like to be a new and female shooter on her blog at www.greatsataninc.com. She also reviews firearms and shooting accessories, and showcases gun training classes like Babes with Bullets and charitable organizations like HAVA (Honored American Veterans Afield).

Jacqueline is currently a member of several shooting and Second Amendment organizations including NRA, Steel Challenge Shooting Association and USPSA, where she currently holds a D classification in the production division.

While finding herself empowered through her efforts to master the shooting arts, she has also learned how much the shooting sports can relieve the stresses of everyday life. Follow her as she ventures through the wonder that is the shooting world.

If it goes bang, Jacqueline wants to shoot it, and then tell you all about it.

Email: Jaci@thewoma.com