Saez also serves the community in various capacities, at local and national levels. She is a member of the Corporate Advisory Board for the National Society of Hispanic MBAs, chairperson of the New Brunswick Tomorrow's board of directors, a trustee of Thomas Edison State College, and a member of the National Big Brothers/Big Sisters Hispanic Advisory Council. She also serves on Wachovia's Corporate Diversity Council. Saez has been recognized as one of Pennsylvania's 50 Best Women in Business, as a Perth Amboy Chamber of Commerce's Business Executive of the Year, and as an Urban Financial Services Coalition's Financial Leader of the Year.
Wachovia is No. 21 on The 2006 DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity® list.
Manuel Mirabal, president and CEO of the National Puerto Rican Coalition (NPRC), has been selected as the new chair of the board for the 2007-2008 term by The Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility's (HACR) board of directors.
Mirabal is a recognized national leader with a distinguished career in both public and private sectors. He is an outspoken advocate on issues affecting the social, economic and political advancement of the Latino community, and a leading expert on community development, technology, and federal government employment policy.
This will be Mirabal's second term as HACR chairman, having served in this capacity in 2000. He has also served as chairman of the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda (NHLA), a position he held from September 2000 to June 2004.
Nathaniel R. Jones was appointed chief diversity and inclusion officer of Blank Rome LLP. This position is new and is based in the law firm's Cincinnati office. Jones, 80, whose practice concentrates in litigation and dispute resolution, served as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati from 1979 to 2002.
In recognition of his outstanding career as a jurist and civil-rights leader, Congress passed H.J.Res.2 naming the Nathaniel R. Jones Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Youngstown, Ohio, on Feb. 20, 2003. Among numerous other honors and awards, Jones received the Annual Fellows Award from the American Bar Association's Young Lawyers Division in 2005, the Award of Excellence from the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund in 2004, and the Ohio Bar Medal Award from the Ohio State Bar Association in 2003, and was inducted into the National Bar Association Hall of Fame in 2002. He was named a "Great Living Cincinnatian" in 1997.
Jones is a member of more than two dozen civic and community organizations, including the board of directors of the Cincinnati Youth Collaborative, the board of directors of KnowledgeWorks Foundation, the board of trustees of the Legal Aid Society of Greater Cincinnati, the board of trustees of the Southern Africa Legal Services Foundation, the board of directors of the American Constitution Society, and the advisory committee of the Urban Morgan International Human Rights Institute. He serves as a member of the Toyota Motor Manufacturing North America Diversity Advisory Board and is honorary co-chair and board member of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. Toyota Motor North America is No. 29 on The 2006 DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity list.
Kedrick D. Adkins Jr. has been named president of Integrated Services by Trinity Health. His appointment will take effect on Jan. 23.
In this new position, he will be responsible for financial services, information services, supply-chain and capital planning, managed-care operations, and insurance and risk management.
Previously, Adkins spent 30 years with Accenture, where he was a senior partner, most recently serving as U.S. Country managing director and chief diversity officer for the global consulting, technology-services and outsourcing company.
Adkins earned a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering and an MBA in accounting and finance from the University of Michigan. He is also a CPA.
He currently serves on the corporate advisory board of the University of Michigan's College of Engineering and has served in national positions such as Accenture's representative to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Linda R. Gooden has been appointed executive vice president of Information & Technology Services (I&TS) Business Area at the Lockheed Martin Corp., effective Jan. 1. She succeeds Mike Camardo, who is retiring.
She served as vice president of Lockheed Martin's Software Support Services unit and earlier held other positions of increasing responsibility within the corporation's Data Systems and Information Systems companies. She joined Lockheed Martin in 1980 and was previously employed as a software engineer for General Dynamics.
She has a long record of achievement for which she has earned national recognition, including, most recently, being named 2006 Black Engineer of the Year by U.S. Black Engineer and Information Technology magazine. She also actively supports many professional, academic and civic organizations and serves on numerous executive boards.
She received her degree in computer technology from Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio, and completed post-baccalaureate studies at San Diego State University. She also holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Maryland, University College. In 2005, she was awarded an honorary doctor of public service degree from the University of Maryland University College in recognition of her service to the community and to higher education.
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