Inductees Class of 1991

Sheila Loftus

Class of 1991

Sheila Loftus was the longtime executive director of the Washington Metropolitan Auto Body Association and for 31 years the editor and publisher of Hammer & Dolly, its monthly trade magazine. She led the association until 2006. In 1996 she founded Crash Network, a weekly fax and email news service for the collision industry. She was a regular presence at national industry meetings, reporting on them for her readers and photographing the people who attended. She died May 11, 2022, at 79.

Also inducted in 1991