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Awards & Recognition
★Fortune's 50 Most Powerful Women in Business (#7 ranking)
★Forbes World's 100 Most Powerful Women (#48 ranking 2020)
★Fortune 50 Over 50 list 2021
★Michigan Women's Hall of Fame inductee 2021
★Spelman College Legacy of Leadership Award 2017
★AFROTECH Legacy Leader recognition
Notable Facts
→Former CEO of Walgreens Boots Alliance (March 2021-September 2023), not current CEO
→First woman and third Black woman ever to become CEO of a Fortune 500 company
→Previously served as COO and Group President at Starbucks
→Former President and CEO of Sam's Club, first woman and African American to lead a Walmart division
→Currently serves as interim president of Spelman College
→Serves on boards of United Airlines and Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History
→Born in Detroit, Michigan in 1962, graduated from Spelman College with chemistry degree
→22-year career at Kimberly-Clark before joining Walmart in 2006
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