The first female CEO of a Fortune 500 company.
She paved the way for women in business as the first female CEO of a Fortune 500 company.
After her husband died in 1963, Graham took over as president of the Washington Post Company and ultimately led the newspaper to success.
Because of Graham’s courage and tenacity, the Washington Post published the Pentagon Papers, which exposed the harsh realities of the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal, despite pushback from the Richard Nixon administration.