The following professionals served as judges for the Spring 2001 World Wide Web Mature Media Awards program. Please do not contact the judges directly for questions related to the awards program. You can address general awards program questions to info@seniorawards.com.

Gary Crooms is a Dallas financial planner and President of Senior Information Services of America®, a long term care financial planning firm that specializes in assisting seniors and their families with late life financial and estate planning issues. Gary is also the co-founder of two monthly periodicals, The Senior News Source and the North Texas Health Source — published for seniors, senior caregivers, and healthcare professional in the North Texas region.

Sandra Lieberman became an entrepreneur in the field of gerontology in 1988 after a family caregiving experience. She has been the owner of an adult daycare center, provided personal business services for the elderly and started a non-profit organization disseminating aging information to the public. Presently Sandy serves as the Director of Content for SeniorPlanet.com and is developing a new content provider service, and a Website, AgeBeat.com, to provide content and consulting services to senior-oriented Websites.

Bard Lindeman has more than 50 years in print journalism. He is the author of three non-fiction books, including "Be An Outrageous Older Man." For the last 18 years he has written a weekly syndicated newspaper column (In Your Prime) on aging for Tribune Media Services of Chicago. Previously, he was editor of 50 PLUS magazine, now called New Choices. He maintains a Web site at beoutrageous.com where a selection of his columns appears.

Jennifer E. Rabalais, Jennifer E. Rabalais, Management Information Specialist for Southwest Tenessee Area Agency on Aging, is responsible for all installation, training, reviewing and technical support for the SAMS database in her district. She compiles reports for submission to Tennnessee Commission on Aging, provides technical assistance to office staff and updates the webpage. She graduated from Dyersburg State Community College in 1998.

Mickie Smalling is president of Local Market Insight (LMI), a Chicago based consulting business, specializing in e-business strategy for organizations serving the mature market. As president of LMI, Mickie helps clients expand their Internet Websites into community specific portals. These portals create a web presence that increases value for consumers, creates sticky applications for increased traffic and facilitates revenue through Web commerce affiliate marketing programs. As a result of her fieldwork for clients such as Sunrise Assisted Living, Ms. Smalling has developed extensive insight into technology and e-health applications serving both consumers and providers of senior services.