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Update: Fortune 500 Women CEOs hits a record 20
July 18, 2012: 9:30 AM ETFORTUNE -- As we noted yesterday, Yahoo's new chief Marissa Mayer is the youngest CEO in the Fortune 500. Mayer's appointment means that the Fortune 500 now has 20 female CEOs, a new record. Here's the list:
10. Meg Whitman - Hewlett-Packard (HPQ)
19. Ginni Rometty - IBM (IBM)
28. Patricia Woertz - Archer Daniels Midland (ADM)
41. Indra Nooyi - PepsiCo (PEP)
45. Angela Braly - WellPoint (WLP)
50. Irene Rosenfeld - Kraft Foods (KFT)
72. Ellen Kullman - DuPont (DD)
125. Carol Meyrowitz - TJX (TJX)
127. Ursula Burns - Xerox (XRX)
234. Sheri McCoy - Avon Products (AVP)
250. Deanna Mulligan - Guardian Life Ins. Of America
266. Debra Reed - Sempra Energy (SRE)
334. Denise Morrison - Campbell Soup (CPB)
390. Ilene Gordon - Ingredion (INGR)
396. Heather Bresch - Mylan (MYL)
451. Kathleen Mazzarella - Graybar Electric
464. Maggie Wilderotter - Frontier Communications (FTR)
465. Gracia Martore - Gannett (GCI)
483. Marissa Mayer - Yahoo (YHOO)
499. Beth Mooney - Key Corp (KEY)
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Fortune senior editor at large Pattie Sellers has written some of Fortune's most talked-about cover stories, including "Marissa Mayer: Ready to Rumble at Yahoo," "Oprah's Next Act," "Can Meg Whitman Save California?" "The $100 Billion Woman" (Melinda Gates), and "Remodeling Martha" (Martha Stewart). She has helped oversee Fortune's "Most Powerful Women in Business" package every year since its launch in 1998. Pattie is Executive Director of the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, the preeminent gathering of women leaders in business and beyond. She oversees MPW programs that enable women leaders to extend their influence and empower the next generation—such as Fortune MPW Entrepreneurs and the Fortune-U.S. State Department Global Women Leaders Mentoring Partnership. Beyond her Fortune duties, she is also developing Live Content across Time Inc. Pattie grew up in Allentown, PA, graduated from the University of Virginia, and started at Fortune in 1984. Her blog, Postcards, is about how power players lead, manage others, and navigate their careers.
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