Mellody Hobson

Mellody Hobson is president and co-CEO of Ariel Investments, and the chairwoman of Starbucks Corporation. She is the former chairwoman of DreamWorks...

Karen Freeman-Wilson

Karen Freeman-Wilson is an American attorney, former judge, and politician who served as Indiana Attorney General from 2000 to 2001, as well as mayor...

Linda Johnson Rice

In 2002, as chairman and CEO of Johnson Publishing Company, Linda Johnson Rice became the first African American female CEO among the top five of the...

Julieanna Richardson

Julieanna L. Richardson is a Harvard-trained lawyer and the founder and president of The HistoryMakers, a nonprofit preserving archival collections of...

Dorri McWhorter

Dorri McWhorter is the first woman to hold the position of president and CEO of the YMCA of Metro Chicago

Juliana Stratton

Juliana Stratton is the first African-American woman to become Illinois' 48th lieutenant governor, and the state's fourth woman lieutenant governor ov...

Kim Foxx

Justice Joy Cunningham

Supreme Court Justice Joy Cunningham is the second Black woman to serve on the state's highest court.

Annette Nance-Holt

ire Commissioner Annette Nance-Holt is a 31-year veteran of the Chicago Fire Department (CFD). She is the first African American woman to lead the ci...