Former FedEx receptionist becomes the company’s first black female CEO (photos)

FedEx has named its newest CEO and she’s Ramon Hood, a woman who began as a receptionist at the same company.

The company announced Wednesday, February 26, that former VP of operations, strategy, and planning is now CEO, bringing more than 28 years of company experience to her role. She will be overseeing the Custom Critical division.

She started with the company as a receptionist in 1991 when the company was still called Roberts Express.

Reacting to becoming the company’s CEO, Hood said: 

I wasn’t thinking this was going to be my career and I’d be here for 28 years. I was a young mother. I wanted a job that had a stable shift that would allow me to do (college) courses as appropriate.