Tori Murden
Chronology
| 1963 | Born March 6 in Brooksville, Florida |
| 1981 | Graduates from the Louisville Collegiate School (high school) |
| 1985 | Earns Bachelor's degree from Smith College, where she majored in psychology and minored in education |
| 1986 | Serves as chaplain at Boston City Hospital |
| 1987 | Works at Cambridge Department of Human Services' Multi-Service Center for the Homeless |
| 1988 | Becomes first woman and first American to reach Lewis Nunatuk Summit in the Antarctic |
| 1989 | Earns Master of Divinity degree from Harvard University |
| 1989 | Serves as director of the Volunteers of America Women's Center, a residential center for homeless women |
| 1989 | Becomes first woman and first American to ski to the geographic South Pole |
| 1992 | Goes to work as a project coordinator for public policy in the Louisville mayor's office |
| 1994 | Begins five-year stint as a project administrator for the Louisville Development Authority's Empowerment Zone Project |
| 1995 | Earns law degree from the University of Louisville; admitted to the Kentucky Bar Association |
| 1997 | Teams with Louise Graff in Port St. Charles Atlantic Rowing Race; they drop out due to illness and problems with their boat's electrical system |
| 1998 | Unsuccessfully attempts to row across the Atlantic alone from North Carolina to France; in the process, sets world records for most days at sea by a woman (85) and most miles rowed solo continuously by an American (3,043) |
| 1999 | Becomes first woman and first American to row across the Atlantic, traveling 3,333 miles from the Canary Islands to Guadeloupe in the West Indies in 81 days, seven hours, and 31 minutes |
| 1999 | Works as development director for Louisville's Muhammad Ali Center |
| 2000 | Marries Charles "Mac" McClure on January 7 |
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