HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES
2005 Women Of Color Distinguished Achiever
MASTER CHIEF EVELYN “VONN” P. BANKS Master Chief, NAVSEA Command Master Chief (Air Warfare/Surface Warfare)
2009 Technologist of the Year
NORMA CLAYTON Vice President, Learning, Training, and Development, The Boeing Company Norma Clayton counts among the nation’s top technology leaders. Mentoring
makes up a large part of her success. That star quality earned her a Professional Achievement in Industry BEYA at the 14th annual Black Engineer of the Year Awards Conference. Almost a decade later, the first woman to be a senior manu- facturing executive in Boeing Aircraft and Missile Systems is still making waves. She has been described as Boeing’s lead men- tor, designing train- ing and development programs focused on
Most recently, Master Chief Banks served as the command master chief at the U.S. Naval Academy. On taking up her appointment in July 2007 she told a military publication that the “role of any Master Chief is to serve Sailors, Ma- rines and their families.” Master Chief Banks led improvements in quality-of- life and quality-of-service programs at Annapolis until her current assignment to the Naval Sea Systems Command in June of 2010. NAVSEA engineers, build and support America’s fleet of ships and combat systems. In Master Chief Banks’ first billet as command master chief at the Navy Support Facility, she accom- plished milestones in leadership for the command. She served aboard 5 ships as command master chief as well as chief of Naval Operations-Directed Command Master Chief at the U.S. Navy Recruit- ing Command. A graduate of both the Air Force Senior Non-Commissioned Officer Academy and the Navy Senior Enlisted Academy, Master Chief Banks enlisted in the U.S. Navy on January 28, 1984 and then went on to the operational fleet. She earned an AA in general studies management and a Bachelor of Science in business management from University of Phoenix. She is also a graduate of the National Defense University’s Keystone Senior Enlisted course.
ensuring 160,000 employees have the requisite skills to perform their jobs. Prior to this assignment, she led the company’s Global Sourcing Initiative, an enterprise-wide initiative launched in 2006 to increase growth and productivity. She also held a number of leadership roles within Boeing’s Integrated Defense Systems, including vice president of supplier management and procurement, and vice president and general manager of the Maintenance and Modification Centers. Ms Clayton holds a master’s degree in business management from Web- ster University, a bachelor’s degree in industrial administration from the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and is pursuing a Ph.D. She is currently a board member of a number of organizations, including FOCUS St. Louis®, the St. Louis Academy of Science, Tuskegee Uni- versity, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and the American Society of Training and Development.
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