2010 Automotive News 100 Leading Women

Why did you want to work in the auto industry? My first ambition was to go to law school. As it turned out I was offered an internship at Ford after my second year at the University of Michigan.After about 21/2 years into my college experience, I found that after taking so many credits I could graduate after three years instead of four.So my father, who was working at Ford at the time -- he had almost 40 years at Ford when he retired -- encouraged me to see if I could get hired full time at Ford.