I just finished reading my latest Sacramento Business Journal. It has a supplement this week entitled Heavy Hitters in Real Estate. I flipped through the 22 pages looking at the winners in several categories - Apartments, Industrial, Investments, Land, Office, Retail, Rookie of the Year. And suddenly it struck me, of the 80 or so winners, only one was a woman. And not one Black, and very few, if any, Hispanics. Real estate in this town is a white man's business.

Nelle Thompson, CB Richard Ellis, number 9 in the industrial category - I don't know how you did it, but you are my hero.

The sad thing is that things don't look like they are changing any time soon...not a minority to be seen in the rookie of the year category either.

Gillian Parrillo
The Sacramento Executive