#BlackHistoryMonthSpotlight: Former FedEx Receptionist Becomes Company’s First Black Female CEO!

As we close out Black History month, it was just announced that FedEx just named Ramona Hood as their first Black female CEO.

According to Black Enterprise, “The former VP of operations, strategy, and planning today bringing more than 28 years of company experience to her role. She will be overseeing the Custom Critical division.”

It’s also said that she started with the company in 1991, as a receptionist, when it was initially named “Roberts Express.” Hood stated, 

“I wasn’t thinking this was going to be my career and I’d be here for 28 years. I was a young mother. I wanted a job that had a stable shift that would allow me to do (college) courses as appropriate.”

The new CEO received a bachelor’s degree in Business Management from Walsh University and her Executive MBA from Case Western Reserve University.

Also according to Black Enterprise,

“Hood climbed up the ladder of success in the company from heading subsidiary FedEx Truckload Brokerage to obtaining an officer position at FedEx Supply Chain in 2016. She then returned to FedEx Custom Critical for an executive position.”

What an amazing story.  She out in the hard work and really started from the bottom. There’s no substitution for doing the work!