[4] Moore started her career in 1976, working for the Republican National Committee in Washington, D.C., but decided that politics was not the field she wanted to pursue.
[1] In 1981, Moore then received an MBA from George Washington University and then joined the training program at the Chemical Bank.
[1][7] In 1996, after running the company that he founded into deep financial trouble, T. Boone Pickens was removed by Moore as the head of Mesa Inc, which mainly dealt with the production of oil and natural gas.
[5] Moore was recognized in several media outlets including Forbes, Fortune, Working Woman, Worth, The Wall Street Journal, and CNN.
[8] She is credited with dismissing future Florida Governor Rick Scott from Columbia/HCA when a Medicare-related scandal broke.
[11][12] A 1997 article in CNN Money by Patricia Sellers states: "To get a picture of Darla Moore, imagine, say, a cross between the Terminator and Kim Basinger, with a wicked South Carolina drawl.
In 2012, Moore and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice became the first two female members of Augusta National Golf Club.
Moore has described her excitement to join the club in a statement to The New York Times, stating:[36]I am honored to have accepted an invitation to join Augusta National Golf Club ... Augusta National has always captured my imagination, and is one of the most magically beautiful places in the world, as everyone gets to see during the Masters each April.
In March 2011, a court declared him incapacitated as a result of his battle with progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), and his youngest child, Matthew, became his legal guardian.
As his illness progressed, Rainwater's primary caregiver was his brother Walter until around-the-clock nursing care became necessary.
He was survived by his former wife, his son Todd, and two other children, Matthew and Courtney, from an earlier marriage.