The total amount of women working within the NFL should only grow and grow in the foreseeable future. Sarah Thomas made history in September 2015 when she became the first female to serve as a referee during a NFL regular season game. Jennifer Welter (pictured above) was in sports and news headlines earlier this year when the Arizona Cardinals hired her to coach the team’s inside linebackers, a decision that made Welter the first female coach in the history of the league. The hope moving forward is that all teams would be open to hiring a woman to be a coach were the right situation to unveil itself.

Christina Settimi of Forbes produced a piece in September of this year about the women she described as the “NFL’s Female Financial Scorekeepers,” the nine individuals who “keep financial score” for NFL franchises. Those women, as Settimi described, all had a hand in the NFL making over $11 in revenue in 2014. The NFL is, financially speaking, the best thing going today in all of North American professional sports, and the popularity of the league is at an all-time high. Somewhere, there is a young female football fan who is dreaming of one day hoisting the Vince Lombardi Trophy as a head coach. That dream could come true for her.

9. Kelly Flanagan – Jacksonville Jaguars Senior Vice President and CFO

Via sportsbusinessdaily.com

The Senior Vice President and CFO of the Jacksonville Jaguars who is a native of the area is no stranger to the NFL. Kelly Flanagan was part of the finance team for MetLife Stadium during the opening stages of that stadium, and she thus worked with both the New York Giants and the New York Jets. Flanagan and others within the front office of the Jaguars may find themselves looking for new homes if there is any fire behind the figurative smoke created by rumors that the club could relocate to London in the future. It is a poorly kept secret that the NFL would love to have a team overseas. Will that team be the Jaguars?