Barbara Franklin

Barbara Franklin

Barbara Hackman Franklin (birth name: Hackman ) (born March 19, 1940 in Lancaster , Pennsylvania ) is an American politician ( Republican Party ) and manager .

biography

After attending school, she first studied at Pennsylvania State University and graduated in 1962 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). She then completed a postgraduate degree in business administration at Harvard Business School , which she was one of the first women to complete with a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in 1964 .

In 1969 she became assistant to a vice president of Citibank ; then she was between 1971 and 1973 staff assistant to the Chief of Staff of the White House under US President Richard Nixon , Harry Robbins Haldeman . She was then a member of the Consumer Product Safety Commission until 1979 .

In 1979 she switched to the private sector and was initially a member of the Aetna board until 1992 . At the same time, she worked from 1979 to 1988 as a senior fellow at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. In 1980 she founded her own company, Barbara Franklin Enterprises, of which she has been President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) since then. She was also a board member of Dow Chemical and Westinghouse Electric from 1980 to 1992, Automatic Data Processing from 1984 to 1992 , Black & Decker from 1985 to 1992 , Nordstrom from 1988 to 1992, and Armstrong from 1989 to 1992. Between 1982 and 1984 and 1989 and 1992 she was also a member of the President's Advisory Council for Trade Policy and Negotiations.

On 27 February 1992, she was the successor of Robert Mosbacher of US President George Bush to the Trade Minister ( Secretary of Commerce ) in the Cabinet appointed, to which it belonged until the end of Bush's term in office on January 20, 1993rd

After resigning from government policy in 1993, she returned to the private sector and since then was again a board member of Aetna, Dow Chemical and, until 1999, of AMP, Inc. She was also a board member of Guest Services, Inc. (1995 to 2002), JA Jones (1995 to 1998), MedImmune (1995 to 2007), Milacron (1996 to 2005), NASDAQ (1996 to 1997), Watson Wyatt (2000 to 2002), Aviron (2001 to 2002) and GenVec (2002 to 2007) .

Web links

• Barbara Franklin in nndb (English)
• Barbara Franklin at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia (English)