Jill Diamond is the International
Secretary of the World Boxing Council and International Chair of
WBC Cares. She was the recipient of NY’s Ring 8’s 2011
Humanitarian Award and was recently appointed to the USA Mental
Health Task Force, guided by Congresswoman Grace Napolitano.
She is the first woman to sit on
the Executive Board of the North American Boxing Federation.
She’s also Co Chaired the WBC and NABF Female Championship
Division, In addition, she is a proud fight supervisor.
She has won the California Boxing Hall of Fame Women's
Championship Award, the Aileen Eaton Award, WBC Woman of the
Year (2010), and Humanitarian Awards 2011 and 2013, is advisor
to the American University of Sports, and Founded and Chairs
World Boxing Cares, a non-profit organization that reaches out
to impoverished children in 166 countries.
She was the first American Citizen invited to the All African
Games, and has since brought medical and orthopedic supplies to
various institutions. Recently, Ms. Diamond's commitment was
recognized, and acknowledged by the California Legislature for
her work with women athletes And inducted into the NBHOF. In
2017 she was also awarded the Luminary Award by Raging Babes,
the Humanitarian Award by the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame and
appointed a Global Goodwill Ambassador.
In addition, Jill currently
writes for various sports publications, websites and magazines.
Some of her video interviews with sport’s celebrities can be
seen on, Sports closeups and other international websites, both
in English and Spanish.
Prior to sports, she starred on Broadway, wrote/sang for Motown
+ Chess Records, and was involved in the world of Television and
Radio, where she ran the music/SFX departments for Procter +
Gamble, ABC/Disney, EC TV, and wrote/composed campaigns for WBGO
and McCann Erickson. She is also a multiple Emmy winner for
Composition and Production. She used her writing and editing
abilities, to design campaigns for hospitals and
pharmaceuticals; including USC Norris, Katie Couric’s Colon
Cancer Initiative, Random House, and the DCI Networks. As head
of the Film/TV Department of Anatomical Travelogue, she was
instrumental in developing Conception to Birth, an Oprah book
choice.
Her involvement in boxing was a gift from her late husband, Don
Chastain, whose father, Clyde “The Texas Tornado” Chastain
packed a righteous-right.