57th Annual Meeting featuring Admiral Michelle Howard

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June 4th
57th Annual Meeting featuring Admiral Michelle Howard

Join us for our 57th Annual Meeting with keynote speaker Michelle Howard, who was the first woman to achieve the rank of four-star admiral in the U.S. Navy. Adm. Howard’s 35-year naval career is marked by even more firsts. In 1999, she became the first African American woman to command a U.S. naval warship when she took the helm of the USS Rushmore. She was the first African American woman to lead a U.S. Navy battle group when in 2009 she took command of Expeditionary Strike Group Two.

Admiral Michelle Howard

US Navy Retired

She planned the 2009 mission to rescue Capt. Richard Phillips from Somali pirates who had seized his cargo ship at the Gulf of Aden. The hijacking and rescue were depicted in the 2013 film “Captain Phillips.” Adm. Howard was born into a military family. Her father served as a master sergeant in the U.S. Air Force, and by the time she was 12 years old she had started thinking about embarking on a career in the military. During high school she applied to the U.S. Naval Academy, and upon entering Annapolis in 1978, she became one of only seven black women in the school’s class of 1,363 students. To read more about Adm. Howard click here. 

Tickets:
Inforum Members: $50
Guests (Nonmembers): $70
Table Sponsor: $1,200 (includes table of 10 with preferred seating; recognition in event presentation)

Corporate Investor Gratis Tickets: Due to capacity constraints, each corporate investor will be able to use only 5 gratis tickets for the event.

For sponsorship information, contact vice president Carole Leigh Hutton at clhutton@informmichigan.org or 313.324.0234

Thank you to our sponsors!

Presenting Sponsor:

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Scholarship Sponsors:

Pete and Carol Walters

Weldaloy

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