Ursula Burns

If you were busy doing too much in the last few weeks, you might have missed the “other” big story about a woman over fifty:  Ursula Burns, the first black woman to be appointed CEO of a Fortune 500 company –Xerox, to be exact.  While all eyes were on the remarkable Ms.Sonia Sotomayor, Obama’s pick for Supreme Court Justice, the Fipsters at oops50.com were afraid you’d miss the incredible pick of Ms. Burns to corporate America.

It seems that both these brainy women were raised in public housing projects in New York City – talk about living your dream!  Burns, 50, got an engineering degree at Columbia University and started at Xerox as a summer intern in 1980.  Somehow, we can’t imagine staying anywhere for almost 30 years, but our heads are spinning just thinking about all those copying machines!

How’s this for inspiration for us all?

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Tags: Ceo of Xerox, Sonia Sotomayor, Ursula Burns, women over 50

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