Women CEOs of the Top 500

 

Recent appointments have pushed the number of women CEOs among America's 500 largest companies to an all-time high of 15. Here they are (in order of company revenue):

 

Angela F. Braly
President and CEO
WellPoint Inc. (No. 33)

 

Patricia A. Woertz
Chairman, CEO and president
Archer Daniels Midland Co. (No. 52)

 

Lynn Laverty Elsenhans
Chairman, CEO and president
Sunoco (No. 56)

 

Indra K. Nooyi
Chairman and CEO
PepsiCo Inc. (No. 59)

 

Irene B. Rosenfeld
Chairman and CEO
Kraft Foods Inc. (No. 63)

 

Ellen J. Kullman
President and CEO
DuPont (No. 81)

 

Carol M. Meyrowitz
President and CEO
The TJX Companies Inc. (No. 132)

 

Mary F. Sammons
Chairman and CEO
Rite Aid Corp. (No. 142)

 

Anne M. Mulcahy
Chairman and CEO
Xerox Corp. (No. 144)

 

Brenda C. Barnes
Chairman and CEO
Sara Lee Corp. (No. 203)

 

Andrea Jung
Chairman and CEO
Avon Products Inc. (No. 265)

 

Susan M. Ivey
Chairman, president and CEO
Reynolds American Inc. (No. 290)

 

Laura Sen
President and CEO
BJ's Wholesale Club (No. 291)

 

Carol Bartz
CEO
Yahoo! Inc. (No. 353)

 

Christina A. Gold
President and CEO
Western Union Co. (No. 473)