Joyce Pinnell-Martin

Oral History Information

Interview Date
Job Title
Past President
Company Name
Wingert-Jones Music
Tags
NAMM Board of Directors-Interviewed, RPMDA (Retail Print Music Distributors Association), Music Retail, Women in the Music Industry, Missouri, Print Music Retail

Joyce Pinnell-Martin served as president of the famed print dealer Wingert-Jones Music in Kansas City. The store opened in 1960 and just two years later Joyce was hired as the book keeper. Over the years she helped grow the company and developed her own strong career. While serving as president of the company she was very active in the industry and in fact served on the NAMM Board in the early 1990s. She was a pioneer in the industry as a female leader and in fact was one of the early “work from home” employees while she was raising her children!