Wendy Toms Wendy Toms Wendy Toms (born 16 October 1962) is an English former football referee from Broadstone, Dorset who has officiated in the Football League and then the Premier League, both as an assistant referee. She was the first female ever to fulfil such roles at those levels. She also served for FIFA on the women's international list. Her other occupation is as a parcel post manager. Toms took up refereeing in the late 1980s, and progressed to become a reserve (now "fourth") official in the Football League in 1991 for the Bournemouth versus Reading match in the old Third Division,
Wendy McCarthy Wendy McCarthy Wendy Elizabeth McCarthy, , (born 22 July 1941 in , New South Wales) is an experienced businesswomen, manager and executive. Wendy began her professional life as a secondary school teacher and since then she has remained committed to shifting the concept and reality of being female in Australia, and globally. For five decades Wendy has worked for reform across the public, private and community sectors, in education, family planning, human rights, public health, and overseas aid and development, as well as in conservation, heritage, and media. Her first experience as an activist came about in 1968 when, newly