Former tennis champion and gender equality advocate Billie Jean King was named grand marshal of the 2025 Tournament of Roses parade in Pasadena on Monday. “I had a unique opportunity.

King served as grand marshal of the 136th Rose Parade and last year she received the Congressional Gold Medal. Billie Jean King became the first woman to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of ...

Billie Jean King, the 12-time Grand Slam singles champion and a founding ... She also lends her name to the Billie Jean King Cup, the international women’s team tennis competition.

Basketball Hall of Famer Earvin Magic Johnson, a fellow member of the Dodgers' ownership group with King, and Oscar-winning actress Jamie Lee Curtis, a longtime friend of King's, joined her in ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Billie Jean King became the first woman ... Emmy-winning screenwriter Jane Anderson. In January, King served as grand marshal of the 136th Rose Parade and last year she ...

Tennis pioneer Billie Jean King added another first to ... The league's Most Valuable Player award is named for her. King won 39 Grand Slam titles -- 12 in singles competition, 16 in women's ...