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Susan Grant, Chair CNN News Services Susan Grant, a Vassar College graduate, is executive vice president of CNN News Services. She is on the Morehouse School of Medicine board of directors, Internet Broadcasting board of directors and was a member of Leadership Atlanta’s class of 2006. That year, Women in Technology named her one of its Women of the Year in Technology. |
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Elizabeth K. Blake Habitat for Humanity International Inc. Elizabeth Blake, senior vice president of government affairs, advocacy and legal, for Habitat for Humanity, also serves on the board of directors at BioFuel Energy and the board of trustees of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. She graduated with honors from Smith College and received her J.D. from Columbia University School of Law. |
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Rebecca “Becky” Blalock Southern Company Rebecca Blalock is the senior vice president and chief information officer at Southern Company. She serves on the Leadership Atlanta Board of Trustees and the CIO advisory boards for Oracle and Sierra Ventures. Blalock received her undergraduate degree from the University of West Georgia and her master’s from Mercer University. She completed the Program for Management Development at Harvard.
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Marnite B. Calder The Halle Foundation Marnite Calder is the executive director of The Halle Foundation. Founded by Claus M. Halle, The Halle Foundation works internationally to promote German-American relations, friendship and understanding. Calder serves on the Shepherd Center Foundation Board of Trustees, CDC National Advisory Council, SCAD Atlanta Advisory Council and Oglethorpe University Presidents Advisory Council. Active in the Rotary Club of Atlanta, Calder is a graduate of Leadership Cobb. Calder is a graduate of Duke University and the National Center for Paralegal Training in Atlanta. |
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Susana Chavez Parking Company of America Susana Chavez is president of the Parking Company of America. Appointed to the Atlanta Commission on Women in 2003, she serves a variety of non-profit organizations for women and Hispanics. Chavez founded and chaired the “Women Doing Business in the City of Atlanta” annual conference, which offers support and business classes to women entrepreneurs. |
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William Clarkson IV The Westminster Schools William Clarkson is the president of The Westminster Schools. He is a member of the Council for Spiritual and Ethical Education and of the Westminster Institute for Science Education Board of Trustees. Clarkson received his bachelor’s degree from Duke University, Master of Divinity from the General Theological Seminary and Doctor of Ministry from Perkins School of Theology. |
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Ann Wilson Cramer IBM Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs Ann Wilson Cramer is director of citizenship and corporate affairs for IBM. Among the many board memberships she holds, Cramer serves on the board of trustees of Salem College, her alma mater. Cramer is also the chair of the Workforce Development Task Force of the Governor’s Commission for a New Georgia and the chair of education for the Georgia Chamber of Commerce. She was Atlanta Woman magazine’s 2008 Power Woman of the Year and was inducted into the Atlanta Business Hall of Fame in 2007. |
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Laura Hardman Community Volunteer Laura Hardman serves on the board of trustees at Emory University, where she earned her degree, and on the board of directors of the North Carolina Outward Bound School. She works with many Atlanta nonprofit organizations such as the Coca-Cola Scholars Program and the Atlanta Committee for Public Education. |
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Douglas J. Hertz United Distributors Inc. Douglas Hertz, president and CEO of United Distributors, serves as a trustee for the Woodruff Arts Center and is president of The Marcus Foundation among several other board memberships and appointments. Involved in numerous fundraising ventures for special-needs children, Hertz founded Camp Twin Lakes for disadvantaged children. In 2009, he received the Business to Business Philanthropist of the Year award. |
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Scarlet Pressley-Brown The Delta Air Lines Foundation Scarlet Pressley-Brown is currently serving as a loaned executive to the National Center for Civil and Human Rights (NCCHR). As the vice president of marketing, Pressley-Brown is responsible for helping develop an overall brand approach for the center where positioning and strategy will be key to grand opening in 2014. She previously served as the director of external affairs and community relations at Delta Air Lines and vice president of the Delta Air Lines Foundation. Pressley-Brown spent six years with the East Lake Community Foundation as director of community affairs successfully restoring and revitalizing the historic East Lake Golf Course community. She received her B.A. in communication from Oglethorpe University and her M.B.A. from University of Phoenix and is on the board of directors for the Alliance Theatre, the Atlanta Business League, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (ATL), the Atlanta Medical Association and the Advisory Council of Ron Clark Academy. |
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Roger K. Quillen Fisher & Phillips LLP Roger K. Quillen is the managing partner and chairman of Fisher & Phillips LLP, a national labor and employment law firm with 27 offices and 275 attorneys across the U.S. He has received repeat recognition as a "Georgia Super Lawyer" and a Georgia "Legal Elite" and is listed in The Best Lawyers in America. In 2012, Human Resource Executive magazine named him one of “The Top 100 Most Powerful Employment Attorneys” in the United States for the fourth year in a row. He graduated from The Ohio State University College of Law with honors in 1980. He also holds a Master of Science from Purdue University and two bachelor’s degrees from The Ohio State University. |
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Deborah J. Richardson National Center for Civil and Human Rights Deborah J. Richardson is a nationally recognized leader on social justice for women and girls and an advocate against child sex trafficking. She is currently serving as executive vice president, leading fundraising and program development for the National Center for Civil and Human Rights. Prior to joining the center, she was chief program officer at Women’s Funding Network in San Francisco. A native Atlantan, Deborah was the CEO of The Atlanta Women’s Foundation (AWF), director of program development for Fulton County Juvenile Court, founding executive director of the Juvenile Justice Fund and managing director of the National Black Arts Festival. |
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Ingrid Saunders Jones The Coca-Cola Company Ingrid Saunders Jones is senior vice president of The Coca-Cola Company where she leads the global community engagement function of the company, Global Community Connections. She serves on several of the Coca-Cola Foundation boards and that of Clark University, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and the Ohio State University President’s Council on Women. She is a Michigan State graduate and received her master’s at Eastern Michigan University. |
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William B. Schwartz, III Wilmington Trust William (Bill) Schwartz is a senior adviser with Wilmington Trust and has been a banker in Atlanta since 1976. He is vice chairman and treasurer of The Chatham Valley Foundation, chairman of the Camp Sunshine Supporting Fund Inc., vice president of the American Jewish Committee Atlanta Region and a former board member of several organizations most recently the Anti-Defamation League Southern Region and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Foundation. From 1979 to 1981, he was a member of The President’s Commission on Executive Exchange at The White House as well as Special Ambassador of the United States to the Inauguration of the President of Colombia in 1980. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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Sue Sehgal Campus Community Partnership Foundation (C2P) Sue Sehgal is the founder and president of C2P, which inspires students to solve community problems with innovative and sustainable solutions linked to their academic disciplines in partnership with the community. Started in Georgia more than a decade ago, C2P's programs have expanded to 27 U.S. states and four continents. Sehgal has a Ph.D. in psychology and has taught at Georgia State University, Oglethorpe University and Northern Virginia Community College. |
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Betty L. Siegel Kennesaw State University Betty Siegel, Distinguished Chair of the Siegel Institute for Leadership, Ethics & Character and President Emeritus at Kennesaw State University, was the first woman to head an institution in the 35‐unit University System of Georgia and was the longest serving woman president of a public university in the nation. She was president of Kennesaw State from 1981 to 2006. Siegel is a long‐time member and former chair of the board of directors of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU). She served on the Commission on Women in Higher Education and is currently serving on numerous corporate and community boards. |
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George B. Wirth First Presbyterian Church, Atlanta George Wirth is senior pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Atlanta. He is a trustee of The Woodruff Arts Center and vice chair of the board of trustees of Princeton Theological Seminary. He attended The Stony Brook School, Princeton Theological Seminary, Waynesburg College and Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. |