The DMA List & Database Council has named Linda Huntoon the 2008 List Leader of the Year. Huntoon, currently executive VP of brokerage at Direct Media, Inc., has also held positions at Walter Karl Inc. and SpeciaLISTS, now Specialists Marketing Services, Inc. She is past chair of the DMA List & Database Council, and a 2004 winner of the Silver Apple Award from the Direct Marketing Club of New York.
Huntoon counts her husband (Budge Huntoon, partner and CEO of Blue Hill Data Services) and Walter Karl as her earliest and most significant influences. It was her husband who, when Huntoon was first looking for a job in the early 1980s, assured her she would be able to land a position, and that she