UW law professor Cheryl Rosen Weston has been named Entrepreneurial Woman of the Year by the National Association of Women Business Owners-Wisconsin (NAWBO).

Weston is CEO and owner of Douglas Stewart Company, Inc., the largest distributor and marketer of computer products, consumer electronics and school supplies exclusively serving the education market. Weston purchased the company in 1999, and during her tenure, sales have more than doubled.

At the Law School, Weston teaches civil procedure, constitutional law, and election law. She worked for twenty years as a litigator in private practice in state and federal courts, and was founder of the Madison law firm Cullen Weston Pines & Bach, LLP. She is now Of Counsel with the firm.

Nominees for the NAWBO entrepreneurial award come from all over the state, and are judged by a five-member panel.

Weston will receive the award formally at a ceremony April 19 in Milwaukee.

Submitted by on April 12, 2005

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