Calhoun, the owner of Red Ants Pants in White Sulphur Springs, knows all about pants. Business, however, she admitted she didn’t know much about when she first started her company in an old saddle shop in 2006.
That would be hard to guess today with Calhoun’s list of business-related awards and recognitions though. She has been recognized by the U.S. Small Business Administration as a 2012 National Women in Business Champion, the 2012 Woman in Business Champion for the Montana SBA and she was featured on the Whitehouse website and selected as one of two businesses from each state to attend a Forum on Jobs and Economic Development in November 2011. Calhoun was the featured speaker at the Leadership Development luncheon in West Yellowstone last Saturday.