Wendy Toms which was then unique for a female. She was the first woman to be included on the list of Football League assistant referees when she was chosen for the 1994-95 season, and became a referee in the Football Conference two seasons later, creating another precedent when she took charge of the game between Kidderminster and Nuneaton Borough her first Conference match as referee. Almost a year after that, she operated as an assistant referee in the Premier League, again, the first female ever to do so. Two years after her debut in that league, and having 'run the line' for
Paul E. Toms Presbyterian church. In 1952 Toms received his B.D. from Fuller Theological Seminary. Toms and his wife served as missionaries in Hawaii on the Kona coast from 1952 to 1962 and from 1962 to 1965 they directed Congregational missions in Australia. Toms came to Boston in 1965 to serve as an assistant pastor at Park Street and became senior pastor at Park Street Church in Boston in 1969 when Pastor Harold Ockenga stepped down. Starting in 1975, Toms served as chairman of the World Relief for fifteen years and also served as president of the National Association of Evangelicals. After stepping