Speaking Of People - prominent African Americans in business and academia - Brief Article

Ebony, June, 2000

CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

Hazel R. O'Leary, the first African-American U.S. Secretary of Energy, is chief operating officer of Blaylock & Partners, a full-service investment firm based in New York with national and international clients. O'Leary, who oversees the firm's daily operations, earned her bachelor's degree in history and economics from Fisk University and a law degree from Rutgers University, Law School. O'Leary, who serves on the boards of several nonprofit organizations, was married to the late John F. O'Leary. She has one adult son.

VICE PRESIDENT OF CORPORATE AFFAIRS

Tina A. Walls is vice president of corporate affairs for the Miller Brewing Company in Milwaukee. She supervises various corporate and community relations strategies. Walls received a bachelor's degree in administration and legal processes from Mills College in Oakland, Calif. She later attended the University, of Wisconsin and the University of Colorado at Denver graduate schools for public and business administration. Walls graduated from the University of Colorado at Denver's Rocky Mountain Program for Senior Executives in State and Local Government, and the Executive Program at the University of Virginia's Darden Business School.

HISTORY, MAKING COLLEGE PRESIDENT

Dr. George Campbell Jr. is the first African-American president of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, a full-scholarship college dedicated to preparing students for careers in engineering, art and architecture. He received a bachelor's degree from Drexel University, a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Syracuse University and graduated from the Yale University Executive Management Program. Dr. Campbell, president and CEO of the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, currently lives in Harlem with his wife, Dr. Mary Schmidt Campbell, dean of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.