"Local Businesswoman Holds National Positions"

September 23, 2000 - Novi. The American Translators Association is the most powerful organization of its kind world-wide, with some 8000 members in North America and beyond, headquartered in Washington, D.C. Members past and present of ATA's board of directors are among the elite in their field, and their numbers include Izumi Suzuki of Novi, Michigan.

Suzuki, president of Suzuki, Myers & Associates, Ltd. and president of the Michigan Translators/Interpreters Network, recently completed her second term on the prestigious ATA board. Of such value are her services, Suzuki was immediately selected to be the administrator of the Japanese Language Division of ATA. Not only that, she serves as the chief of graders of the ATA Japanese accreditation examination system. Suzuki is thus literally the arbitrar of Japanese translation standards in North America.

Suzuki also serves as a long-standing member of the