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Violet Renice Palmer (born July 20, 1964) is a retired American basketball referee in the NBA and WNBA [1] and the first female official to reach the highest competitive tier in any major U.S. professional sports league.
She joins Violet Palmer as the only women picked by the NBA for a playoff assignment. Palmer worked nine playoff games between 2006 and 2012. Moyer-Gleich, a former Division II player at ...
She joins Violet Palmer as the only women picked by the NBA for a playoff assignment. Palmer worked nine playoff games between 2006 and 2012. Moyer-Gleich, a former Division II player at Millersville University in her native Pennsylvania, was promoted to the full-time NBA officiating ranks in November 2018.
In an anonymous 2023 survey of NBA players conducted by The Athletic, Moyer-Gleich received several votes for the "best ref" in the league. [7] In 2024, the NBA selected Moyer-Gleich for a playoff assignment for the first time which would make her the second woman to referee a playoff game after Violet Palmer. [8]
In 1997, Kantner was hired as one of the first women referees in the National Basketball Association alongside Violet Palmer. [4] Her first regular season game as an NBA referee was in November 1997 during a match between the Atlanta Hawks and the Philadelphia 76ers. [14]
Moyer-Gleich became the second woman to be part of a referee crew in the playoffs, joining Violet Palmer, who last worked a playoff game in 2012. This story has been corrected to show that Orlando ...
Other inductees include former players Taj McWilliams-Franklin and Rita Gail Easterling; former official Violet Palmer, the first woman to referee an NBA game; and coaches Sue Phillips and Mary ...
Violet Palmer: First female referee in U.S. professional sports; NBA referee; member of 1985 and 1986 NCAA championship teams Student athlete [9] Mark Peel: James Beard Foundation Award-nominated chef; founder of the La Brea Bakery Student [21] Joe Prokop: Former professional football player for the New York Jets: Student athlete [22] Kim Rhode