Marian Leighton Levy, a co-founder of Rounder Records, is among the 30 women who made the “Power Players” list in Billboard’s Women in Music 2009. Leighton Levy ranks #11 in the list of top female executives in the music industry that appears in the trade publication’s October 10 issue. The names were culled from nominations submitted by readers and selected by a team of Billboard editors.

Leighton Levy, who co-founded Rounder Records in 1970 with Ken Irwin and Bill Nowlin, was cited for overseeing the release of Raising Sand, the musical collaboration of Robert Plant and Alison Krauss that won the 2009 Grammy Award for Album of the Year, boosting the label’s global reach, and signing its first international deal.

An independent label focused on Americana, bluegrass, folk and similar genres, Rounder Records celebrates its 40th anniversary with a special event on October 12 at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, Tennessee that will benefit the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (NARAS)’ Grammy in the Schools Programs. Minnie Driver will host the show, which will feature performances by Alison Krauss and Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Irma Thomas and special guests. The show will be filmed for inclusion in PBS television special fusing on the label’s 40th anniversary that is slated to begin airing on the network next March.