Claire Giannini Hoffman

She also was the only woman guest invited at international bank conference events for some two decades.

Born Claire Evelyn Giannini in San Francisco, California, on December 30, 1904.

[2] Hoffman became engaged in her father's banking enterprises and was his secretarial assistant during his business trips around the United States and Europe.

The major issue she was disheartened over was the sale of the bank's World Headquarters at 555 California Street – which she considered sacred as a testament to her father.

[3] Hoffman was chosen by President Eisenhower to serve on the National Council of Consultants to the United States Small Business Administration.

She was a U.S. delegate to the Atlantic Congress in London in 1959 and a member of its Free Trade and Exchange of Currency Committee.

In 1965 President Lyndon Johnson asked her to be a director of the Export-Import Bank of the United States.

"[6] In 1930 Claire Giannini married Biff Hoffman, All-American sports star at Stanford University who was also an investment banker.

[7] Hoffman died December 20, 1997, at the family home in San Mateo, California.