BLACK ENGINEER OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNERS go Colors:
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Pioneer Award
WANDA DENSON-LOW, J.D. Senior Vice President, Office of Internal Governance, The Boeing Company
President’s Award
TYREE MINNER Plant Manager, Chrysler Group, LLC
Wanda Denson-Low has built a distinguished career com- bining science and the law. She earned a J.D. from Brooklyn Law school and a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Rensse- laer Polytechnic Institute. After starting out as a patent attorney at Union Carbide Corporation in 1981, she joined the Hughes Aircraft Company in 1985. Four years later she was named chief patent counsel, making her the first minority woman to hold this position in a Fortune 500 company. As part of the Boeing acquisition of Hughes Electronics Corporation’s space and communications businesses, where she had risen to become general counsel, she became a member of the legal team in October 2000. She first led the legal staff for Boeing’s defense and space unit, and then its Phantom Works R&D organization. She also served as vice president of human resources for the defense and space unit. Currently, she is responsible for internal governance policies and all other regulatory and compliance matters, including corporate audit, ethics and business conduct, and global trade controls, which includes all of Boeing’s import and export activities. In the past decade, Ms. Denson-Low has provided leadership to the Japanese American National Mu- seum, first as a member of the board of trustees, and recently as a member of the board of governors. She has brought valuable business acumen to the museum’s work, and rallied Boeing to become a top supporter of the institution’s nationwide efforts in diversity education. Ms. Denson-Low is a member of the board of trustees for College Bound, and a national board member of the YMCA. Her professional affiliations include the American Bar Association, American Corporate Counsel Association, and Black Women Lawyers.
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Tyree Minner joined the Chrysler Group in 2006, and since then he has held a number of top leadership positions in the company’s manufacturing facilities. As plant man- ager at St. Louis South, he oversaw a $3.5 billion division producing 200,000 vehicles annually. Later, he assumed the role of manager of the Twinsburg stamping plant (which closed in July 2010). Currently a plant manager at the Chrysler Sterling Heights factory, he oversees the pro- duction of Chrysler Sebring sedans, the new Chrysler 200, which began arriving in dealerships in the fourth quarter of 2010, and the 2011 Dodge Avenger. An economics and management major at Albion University, he was appointed chairman of the board of directors for the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s Oklahoma City branch in 2004. He also served on the Oklahoma Business Roundtable and on the board of directors for Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce; as chairman for the Oklahoma City American Heart Walk, and as judge and sponsor of the St. Louis Gateway Classic College Scholarship Awards to histori- cally black colleges and universities. Minner was one of the best defensive players in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association. He earned the first of his two MIAA All-Conference first-team awards in 1977 and, as defensive end, served as captain in 1978. He was inducted into the Albion College Football Hall of Fame in 2008. He has an M.B.A. from Wayne State University and a master’s in industrial engineering from the University of Dallas.
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