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Tracy LaQuey Parker is a Canadian-American businesswoman. She is the Senior Vice President at Parker Solutions Group. Before joining the company, LaQuey Parker worked for Cisco as a chief technology officer and started The UTeach Institute. Apart from her career, LaQuey Parker became the first person to win a lawsuit against a spammer and was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2017.

Early life and education

LaQuey Parker was born in Newfoundland on a United States Air Force base. After moving to Texas, she went to the University of Texas at Austin for a Bachelor of Arts degree and specialized in computer science.^[1]

Career

In 1988, she started working for the University of Texas with the Texas Higher Education Network. While with the university, she was a part of the Texas Education Network in 1991 that connected Texan teachers to the Internet.^[2] She left the university to work with Cisco Systems as a chief technology officer. While at Cisco, she was in charge of projects that introduced the Internet to schools globally.^[1] After creating The UTeach Institute in 2006, LaQuey Parker went to Parker Solutions Group and became the Senior Vice President of the Business Development department.^[3]

Apart from her technological career, LaQuey Parker authored The User's Directory of Computer Networks in 1988 and The Internet Companion in 1992.^[4] In May 1997, LaQuey Parker was the lead plaintiff in a spamming lawsuit.^[5] In the case, LaQuey Parker sued defendant Craig Nowak after he used her company website via email spoofing to send spam emails.^[6] As a result, LaQuey Parker received over five thousand emails ranging from hate mail to bounced messages between March 31 and April 1, 1997.^[7]^[8] After a November 1997 Texas District Court verdict ruled in favor of LaQuey Parker,^[9] she became the first person to win a lawsuit against a spammer.^[2]

Awards and honors

References

1. ^¹{{cite web |title=UTeach Advisory Council |url=https://uteach.utexas.edu/uteach-advisory-council |website=University of Texas at Austin |accessdate=1 October 2018}}
2. ^¹{{cite web |title=Tracy LaQuey Parker |url=https://www.internethalloffame.org/inductees/tracy-laquey-parker |website=Internet Hall of Fame |accessdate=2 October 2018}}
3. ^{{cite web |title=Board of Directors |url=http://txfic.org/about/board-of-directors |website=Texas Foundation For Innovative Communities |accessdate=25 October 2018}}
4. ^{{cite news |last1=Gallaga |first1=Omar L. |title=Austin Internet pioneer Tracy LaQuey Parker on how it began and where we’re going |url=https://www.statesman.com/news/20171027/austin-internet-pioneer-tracy-laquey-parker--on-how-it-began-and-where-were-going |accessdate=1 October 2018 |work=Austin American-Statesman |date=26 October 2017}}
5. ^{{cite magazine |last1=Girard |first1=KIm |title=Ticked-off users head for court |url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=OkHVjtWXNaYC&pg=PT20 |magazine=Computerworld |date=2 June 1997 |accessdate=1 October 2018 |page=16}}
6. ^{{cite web |title=Antispam efforts heat up |url=https://www.cnet.com/news/antispam-efforts-heat-up/ |website=cnet |accessdate=28 November 2018 |date=14 November 1997}}
7. ^{{cite web |last1=Craddock |first1=Ashley |title=Small-Time Spammer Slapped with Suit |url=https://www.wired.com/1997/05/small-time-spammer-slapped-with-suit/ |website=Wired |accessdate=1 October 2018 |date=29 May 1997}}
8. ^{{cite news |last1=Lebkowsky |first1=Jon |title=The Fight Against Unsolicited E-mail |url=https://www.austinchronicle.com/screens/1997-07-04/529216/ |accessdate=1 October 2018 |work=Austin Chronicle |date=4 July 1997}}
9. ^Parker v. C.N. Enterprises, No. 97-06273 (Travis Co. District Court, 1997)
10. ^{{cite web |title=2017 Internet Hall of Fame Inductees |url=https://www.internethalloffame.org/inductees/2017 |website=Internet Hall of Fame |accessdate=1 October 2018}}