JULIE GILBERT
Age: 37 Title: Senior vice president, Best Buy, in charge of training, leadership development and increasing the company's female market share Born: Draper, S.D., population 92 (as of 2000 census) Music: Country (Waylon and Willie and the boys), hip-hop, rock On the nightstand: "The Great Bridge," by David McCullough, about the building of the Brooklyn Bridge; Vanity Fair; a Bergdorf Goodman catalog Biggest splurge: Great restaurants, good wine, plenty of friends Where everyone knows her name: The Palm Restaurant, on Times Square in New York. "It's like Cheers. I walk in and everyone goes 'Juuulie!' I sit down at the bar and here comes a Cosmo." Dream dinner dates: Diane Sawyer, Gandhi, Jesus. Most admired female leaders: Oprah ("She has used her fame to help other people"); Catherine the Great ("She was forced into a marriage she didn't want to be in, to a guy who didn't really want to be married and who had mental issues, and still went on to take over Russia and impact a lot of cultural and educational pieces in powerful ways"); Condoleezza Rice ("That's a tough world to play in; she does it with grace and style and firmness and an edge.") Dog or cat? Dog. Big dogs.
![Gas was $2.39 at the BP gas station ay 46th Street at Lyndale in South Minneapolis. ] GLEN STUBBE * gstubbe@startribune.com Friday September 4, 2015 Pre-Labor Day gas prices in the U.S. are the lowest in 11 years, and under $2 per gallon in many states, though Minnesota's average is nearly 40 cents higher. Just one station, in Brainerd, was selling at $1.99. Checking on whether that is a promotion. Costco and Sams Clubs, usually the low price leaders, were 15 cents more. With some motorists' tho](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/4U372WPXFGGQGQHPL2CTC4SFUY.jpg?&w=252&ar=3:2&fit=crop)
