Jeanne Silver

Jeanne Silver spent more than three decades in collision repair. She was general manager of American Unic in Fredericksburg, Va., from 1980 to 1986 and worked for I-CAR in Rolling Meadows, Ill., from 1986 to 1990. In 1996 she and her husband, Jeff Silver, a 1993 inductee, opened a CARSTAR shop in Mundelein, Ill., which they ran until retiring in 2021. She chaired the Collision Industry Foundation board of trustees, was secretary of the National Auto Body Council, served on the Women’s Industry Network board and co-chaired the CIC Parts, Ethics and Fair Trade committees. She joined the Collision Repair Education Foundation board of trustees in 2013 and chaired it from 2018 to 2020. BodyShop Business named her Collision Repair Executive of the Year in 2004. The Silvers were the second married couple in the Hall of Eagles.