Julie Gilbert at a glance

December 1, 2007 at 5:35PM
An A6 model of German car manufacturer Audi is seen in this undated handout photo in front of the China wall. Audi starts the production line of it's A6 in Changchun, China, on Monday Sept.6,1999, to produce 30,000 cars yearly. (AP Photo/HANDOUT/Audi)
An A6 model of German car manufacturer Audi is seen in this undated handout photo in front of the China wall. Audi starts the production line of it's A6 in Changchun, China, on Monday Sept.6,1999, to produce 30,000 cars yearly. (AP Photo/HANDOUT/Audi) (Associated Press/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

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.

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