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Corporate Boards

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2014 Aetna Board
Aetna Board, 2014
Dow Board of Directors, 1982
Dow Chemical Board, 1982
National Association of Corporate Directors Board, 2014
National Association of Corporate Directors Board, 2014

Franklin has shattered the glass ceiling in the corporate board arena as one of the first or first two women of many of the 14 public company and three private company boards that she has served.


Public Companies

  • Aetna, Inc.
    1979-1992; 1993-2016
    Chair, Audit Committee
    Previous Roles: Chair, Governance Committee; Member, Compensation and Governance Committees
  • The Dow Chemical Company
    Chair, Audit Committee
    1980-1992;
    1993-2012
  • Westinghouse Electric Corporation
    1980-1992
  • The Black and Decker Corporation
    1985-1992
  • Automatic Data Processing, Inc.
    1984-1992
  • Nordstrom, Inc.
    1988-1992
  • Armstrong World Industries, Inc.
    1989-1992
  • AMP Incorporated
    Chair, Audit Committee
    1993-1999
  • Medimmune, Inc.
    Chair, Audit Committee
    1995-2007
  • Milacron, Inc.
    Presiding Director, Chair, Governance Committee
    1996-2005
  • Watson Wyatt
    2000-2002
  • Aviron
    Chair, Audit Committee
    2001-2002
  • Hamilton Bank
    1980-1982

Private Companies

  • NASDAQ
    1996-1998
  • JA Jones
    1995-1998
  • Guest Services, Inc.
    non-executive Chairman (2001-2002)
    1995-2002

Mutual Funds

  • J.P. Morgan Value Opportunities Fund, Inc.
    2006-2013
    Director
    Roles: Chair, Proxy Committee; Member, Audit Committee
  • Capital Group American Funds Family of Mutual Funds
    2005-2015
    Trustee of three funds
    Previous Roles: Chair, Proxy Committee; Member, Nominating and Contract Committees

International Advisory Boards

  • LafargeHolcim
    2005-2016

Contact Us

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In Print

A Matter Of Simple Justice tells the story about how Barbara Franklin was recruited by the Nixon Administration to hire an unprecedented number of women into the upper levels of the federal government.

A Matter Of Simple Justice book preview

On Capitalism

I believe in the American system of entrepreneurial capitalism. It is this system, coupled with our democracy and rule of law, which has made the U.S. economy the largest and most dynamic in the world and brought our country unprecedented prosperity. It is this system which makes the American dream a reality.
- The Honorable Barbara Hackman Franklin

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