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Fortune 500 Women CEOs hits a record 18

By October 26, 2011: 10:52 AM ET

This morning—one day after IBM disclosed that Ginni Rometty will be its new chief--pharma company Mylan announced that Heather Bresch is its new leader.

And with that, the number of female Fortune 500 CEOs reaches a record 18. Here are the women leading America's largest corporations, with their company's rank in the Fortune 500.

11.  Meg Whitman - Hewlett-Packard (HPQ)

18. Ginni Rometty - IBM (IBM)

39. Patricia A. Woertz  - Archer Daniels Midland (ADM)

42. Angela Braly  - WellPoint (WLP)

43. Indra  Nooyi  - PepsiCo (PEP)

49. Irene Rosenfeld  - Kraft Foods (KFT)

68. Lynn L. Elsenhans  - Sunoco (SUN)

84. Ellen J. Kullman  - DuPont (DD)

119. Carol Meyrowitz  - TJX Companies Inc. (TJX)

121. Ursula M. Burns  - Xerox (XRX)

221. Laura Sen - BJ's Wholesale Club

226.  Andrea Jung  - Avon Products (AVP)

245. Deanna Mulligan - Guardian Life Ins. Of America

274. Debra Reed  - Sempra Energy (SRE)

312. Denise Morrison  - Campbell Soup (CPB)

415. Gracia Martore  - Gannett (GCI)

417. Beth Mooney  - KeyCorp (KEY)

418.  Heather Bresch – Mylan (MYL)

Meet all of the 18 female Fortune 500 CEOs.

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Pattie Sellers
Patricia Sellers
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Pattie Sellers has written some of Fortune's most talked-about cover stories, including "Oprah's Next Act," "Can Meg Whitman Save California?" "The $100 Billion Woman" (Melinda Gates), "MySpace Cowboys," Martha Stewart ("I cannot be destroyed"), Ted Turner ("Gone with the Wind") and Oprah Winfrey ("Oprah Inc."). Since its launch in 1998, Pattie has helped oversee Fortune's "Most Powerful Women" cover package.
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