Knock down

Admitted introvert Mary Forristall would likely cringe if the word trailblazer dotted her biography.

But it certainly fits.

Forristall is an executive, after all, who is the first woman board member in the 62-year history of the Lakewood Ranch-based Gulf Coast Builders Exchange, a 450-member lobbying organization and industry trade group. Forristall is also a woman who built a $3 million business in the niche construction sector of site demolition — the epitome of what's traditionally been a man's world.