2015 Automotive News 100 Leading Women

What attracted you to the auto industry? My father. He was a trainer for a time at the old Chrysler Institute, but he always loved Chrysler. I graduated from the University of Detroit, and I wanted to be a history professor, but in the 1970s, there were no jobs. I was working the night shift at Burger King, and one day my dad showed up and said, “Come on, you’re going to buy a suit, and you’re going to go get a job as a foreman tomorrow.” I said, “Dad, what the hell is a foreman?” He said, “It doesn’t matter. It pays a lot of money.”