Photos: Debra Lee at the 2010 Leading Women Defined Conference

BET Networks CEO Debra Lee and more attend.

2010: BET's Leading Woman - This is the second year that BET’s own leading woman, CEO Debra Lee, has hosted the network’s annual Leading Women Defined Summit in Washington D.C.—a conference that brings together powerful and influential Black women from across the nation. Take a look at Lee’s photos from last year’s conference. (Photo: Brad Barket/PictureGroup)

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2010: BET's Leading Woman - This is the second year that BET’s own leading woman, CEO Debra Lee, has hosted the network’s annual Leading Women Defined Summit in Washington D.C.—a conference that brings together powerful and influential Black women from across the nation. Take a look at Lee’s photos from last year’s conference. (Photo: Brad Barket/PictureGroup)

Debra Lee and Cookie Johnson - Debra Lee (left) and Magic Johnson’s wife Cookie appear here at 2010’s Leading Women Defined Summit at Washington D.C.’s Mandarin Oriental Hotel. (Photo: Astrid Riecken/PictureGroup)

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Debra Lee and Cookie Johnson - Debra Lee (left) and Magic Johnson’s wife Cookie appear here at 2010’s Leading Women Defined Summit at Washington D.C.’s Mandarin Oriental Hotel. (Photo: Astrid Riecken/PictureGroup)

Photo By Photo: Astrid Riecken/PictureGroup

Empowering Message - Lee appears alongside late civil rights icon Dorothy Height during an Empower Session with Dunbar Girls at D.C.’s Dunbar High School. (Photo: Astrid Riecken/PictureGroup)

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Empowering Message - Lee appears alongside late civil rights icon Dorothy Height during an Empower Session with Dunbar Girls at D.C.’s Dunbar High School. (Photo: Astrid Riecken/PictureGroup)

Photo By Photo: Astrid Riecken/PictureGroup

Leading Women - From L-R: Actress Garcelle Beauvais, Debra Lee, and poet Nikki Giovanni. (Photo: Astrid Riecken/PictureGroup)

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Leading Women - From L-R: Actress Garcelle Beauvais, Debra Lee, and poet Nikki Giovanni. (Photo: Astrid Riecken/PictureGroup)

Sharing a Tender Moment - Johnnetta B. Cole, former president of Spelman and Bennett colleges and current director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African Art, is shown here chatting with Debra Lee. (Photo: Astrid Riecken/PictureGroup)

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Sharing a Tender Moment - Johnnetta B. Cole, former president of Spelman and Bennett colleges and current director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African Art, is shown here chatting with Debra Lee. (Photo: Astrid Riecken/PictureGroup)

Power Trio - From L-R: Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council Melody Barnes, CNN Reporter Suzanne Malveaux, and Debra Lee. (Photo: Astrid Riecken/PictureGroup)

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Power Trio - From L-R: Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council Melody Barnes, CNN Reporter Suzanne Malveaux, and Debra Lee. (Photo: Astrid Riecken/PictureGroup)