The Ultimate Fashion Show features a delicious champagne brunch, opportunities to win an exciting array of ‘Ultimate Giveaway’ items, and, of course, the premiere of the spring fashion line.
Models will walk the runway with colorful spring and summer designs for men, women, and children.
Help us celebrate our 2026 Woman of Excellence!
Dr. Kimberly Crowder, MD, Professor and Chairman for the Department of Ophthalmology, is a board certified surgeon in Comprehensive Ophthalmology. She is a long standing member of the Jackson community and received her medical degree from the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC). She also completed her Ophthalmology Residency at UMMC. Dr. Crowder has been a faculty member at UMMC since beginning her ophthalmology practice in 2003.
The event culminates with the live drawing of the 2026 Car for a Cure donated by Patty Peck Honda!
To register or sponsor by phone, or to donate raffle items, please call the DFM office at 601-957-7878.
Individual tickets as well as Sponsorships/Tables are available at the “Click here to register” link below.
Past Winners of our “Women of Excellence” Awards
- 2025 – Kathy Eure
- 2024 – Puja Craddock, MD and Mary Fortune (receiving the first Mary Diane Fortune Award)
- 2023 – Mary Ann Kirby and Teresa Renkenberger
- 2022 – La’Verne Edney, JD and Anna Asher, MD
- 2019 – Robin Robinson and Candie Simmons
- 2018 – Nancy Carpenter and Susan Murphy
- 2017 – Beverly Hogan, PhD and Jane-Claire Williams, MD
- 2016 – Bessie Speed and Vonda Reeves-Darby, MD
- 2015 – Shannon Warnock and Maggie Wade
- 2014 – First Lady of Mississippi, Deborah Bryant
- 2013 – Lucy Mazzaferro
- 2012 – Sister Dorothea Sondegrath
- 2011 – Indira K. Veerisetty, MD
- 2010 – Becky Fowler Brister
- 2009 – Patty Peck Christie
- 2008 – Martha Saunders,PhD
- 2007 – Ruth Fredericks, MD
Thank You Sponsors!
GUCCI
DIOR
PRADA
Drs. Kimberly and Billy Crowder
Fashion Plate
