Janet Chaney

Janet Chaney worked with collision repair shops, state associations and auto recyclers through her firm, Cave Creek Business Development. She was executive director of the Montana Collision Association and the Iowa Collision Repair Association, building Iowa’s Midwest Auto Body Trade Show to about 400 attendees by 2016. From 2006 to 2011 she served the National Auto Body Council as secretary, national director and Pride Awards chair. After the 2005 hurricanes she spent eight months on the Gulf Coast as a catastrophe adjuster, volunteered with Collision Industry Relief and wrote NABC’s “Are You Prepared” hurricane guide for shops. She co-chaired the CIC Governmental Committee and wrote for Autobody News. SCRS gave her its Humanitarian Award in 2008 and its Individual Service Award, and AkzoNobel named her one of the Most Influential Women in the Collision Repair Industry in 2010. She was inducted Nov. 5, 2024, during the SEMA Show, on the nomination of 1989 Eagle Chuck Sulkala.