Ann Jordan

Ann Dibble Jordan (1935)^[1] previously known as Ann Cook,^[2][3] is a company director and formal social worker. She has been a director of Revlon since March 2009.^[1]

Social work

She was an Associate Professor at the School of Social Service Administration of the University of Chicago from 1970 to 1987, director of Social Services of Chicago Lying-in Hospital from 1970 to 1985, and director of the Department of Social Services for the University of Chicago Medical Center from 1986 to 1987.^[2][4]

Business

She is a director of Catalyst Inc., a non-profit women's business organization and an honorary trustee of the University of Chicago and The Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.^[5] She is the former chairman of the National Symphony Orchestra, a trustee of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and WETA,^[6] and a member of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.^[1]

She was Field Work Director of Citigroup from 1989 to 2007. She has been previously been a director of Johnson & Johnson, Automatic Data Processing (both until 2008),^[7] Coleman Company, Salant Corp., Travelers Group Inc.^[8] and The Phillips Collection, and a member of Sasha Bruce Youthworks and FAPE.^[1] She won the 2004 American Woman Award from the Women's Research & Education Institute.^[9]

Politics

With her husband she organised a Democratic fundraiser in 1994 that raised $3 million.^[4] She co-chaired President Bill Clinton's Inauguration committee in 1996.^[10]

Personal life

She married Vernon Jordan in 1986,^[3] and has four children and nine grandchildren.^[4][8]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} "Ann Dibble Jordan Profile". Forbes. http://people.forbes.com/profile/ann-dibble-jordan/89668. Retrieved 15 December 2009. 
2. ^ ^{a b} Franklin, Donna L. (1997). Ensuring inequality: the structural transformation of the African-American family. Oxford University Press US. ISBN 0-19-510078-6. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=MDzQ0FfjBCkC&pg=PR1. 
3. ^ ^{a b} "Society World". Jet. 22 December 1986. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=P7MDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA32. Retrieved 15 December 2009. 
4. ^ ^{a b c} "The Vernon Jordan's Gala For Democrats Raises $3 Million". Jet. 18 July 1994. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8boDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA32&. Retrieved 15 December 2009. 
5. ^ "Trustees". Brookings. http://www.brookings.edu/about/Trustees.aspx. Retrieved 15 December 2009. 
6. ^ "Officers & Trustees". WETA. http://www.weta.org/about/inside/officersandtrustees. Retrieved 15 December 2009. 
7. ^ Pierce, Ponchitta (Spring 2008). "African American Philanthropy". Carnegie Reporter. http://www.carnegie.org/reporter/16/coverstory/index.html. Retrieved 15 December 2009. ^{[dead link]}
8. ^ ^{a b} Fromson, Brett D. (6 February 1998). "Jordan's 10 Board Positions Worth $1.1 Million". Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/director020698.htm. Retrieved 15 December 2009. 
9. ^ "The 2004 American Woman Award". WREI. 2004. http://www.wrei.org/AWA2004.htm. Retrieved 15 December 2009. 
10. ^ Purdum, Todd S. (13 November 1996). "White House Picks Top Inauguration Planners". Washington Post. http://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/14/us/white-house-picks-top-inauguration-planners.html. Retrieved 15 December 2009. 

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