Independent Elite Executive National Sales Director Emeritus
Shirley Hutton
San Francisco, California

FORMER OCCUPATION:
Model and television news reporter

HIGHLIGHTS:
Began, October 1973; Independent Sales Director, August 1974; Independent National Sales Director, May 1980; Independent National Sales Director Emeritus, 1995; First Sales Director to acheive $1,300,000 in unit retail production; No. 1 NSD for six consecutive years; President’s Circle/Inner Circle six times

Finding it all. What would a model and TV news reporter want with a Mary Kay career? “I wanted everything Mary Kay offered – financial security, recognition, prizes – everything I had never had,” Independent Elite Executive National Sales Director Emeritus Shirley Hutton says, recalling what made her sign her Independent Beauty Consultant Agreement in 1973.

In reality, her glamorous TV job only paid $11,000 a year. So when Shirley discovered that one independent Mary Kay woman had earned $8,000 in commissions in one month, she was ready to sign on. “Little did I know that someday I would have a check for $86,000 for one month’s work,” she says. “All I had to do was start at the bottom, teaching others to use skin care and color cosmetics.”

What’s even more special to Shirley is that she and her daughter, Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, made Company history in 1994, as the first mother and daughter to both become National Sales Directors.

Shirley is proud that with her commissions, she was able to purchase a condominium and the first washer and dryer for her late mother as “repayment” for her college education. “As an NSD Emeritus, I challenge each of you to bloom where you are planted and spread your very special pollen around this world,” Shirley says. “I found it all and you can, too.”