Full list
Rank Name Company
1 Indra Nooyi PepsiCo
2 Irene Rosenfeld Kraft Foods
3 Pat Woertz Archer Daniels Midland
4 Angela Braly Wellpoint
5 Andrea Jung Avon Products
6 Oprah Winfrey Harpo
7 Ellen Kullman Dupont
8 Carol Bartz Yahoo
9 Ursula Burns Xerox
10 Brenda Barnes Sara Lee
11 Ginni Rometty IBM
12 Safra Catz Oracle
13 Ann Livermore Hewlett-Packard
14 Sheri McCoy Johnson & Johnson
15 Melanie Healey Procter & Gamble
16 Anne Sweeney Walt Disney
17 Heidi Miller J.P. Morgan Chase
18 Carol Meyrowitz TJX
19 Colleen Goggins Johnson & Johnson
20 Judy McGrath Viacom
21 Ann Moore Time Warner
22 Sheryl Sandberg Facebook
23 Carrie Cox Schering-Plough
24 Susan Chambers Wal-Mart
25 Barbara Desoer Bank of America
26 Susan Ivey Reynolds American
27 Charlene Begley General Electric
28 Abigail Johnson Fidelity
29 Liz Smith Avon Products
30 Sallie Krawcheck Bank Of America
31 Christina Gold Western Union
32 Jan Fields McDonald’s
33 Sue Wagner BlackRock
34 Pam Nicholson Enterprise
35 Joanne Maguire Lockheed Martin
36 Claire Babrowski Toys “R” Us
37 Deirdre Connelly GlaxoSmithKline
38 Gail Boudreaux UnitedHealth
39 Meredith Whitney Meredith Whitney Advisory Group
40 Lorrie Norrington eBay
41 Kathleen Murphy Fidelity
42 Cathie Lesjak Hewlett-Packard
43 Linda Hudson BAE Systems
44 Marissa Mayer Google
45 Lynn Elsenhans Sunoco
46 Cathie Black Hearst Magazines
47 Bonnie Hammer General Electric
48 Lauren Zalaznick General Electric
49 Amy Pascal Sony Pictures Entertainment
50 Maggie Wilderotter Frontier Communications
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