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Linda Johnson Rice, who has made an indelible mark on the media, beauty and fashion industries, served as chairman and CEO of Johnson Publishing Company, LLC, the Chicago-based publisher of Ebony and Jet magazines and owner of Fashion Fair Cosmetics and the Ebony Fashion Fair. Johnson Rice serves on the board of directors of Omnicom Group and Grubhub. She is a council member of The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture and Northwestern Memorial Corporation, and a trustee at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Johnson Rice has been named by the Chicago Sun-Times as one of Chicago’s “100 Most Powerful Women” and by Crain’s Chicago Business as among “The 20 Most Powerful Women in Chicago Business,” and she’s received the Women of Power Award from the National Urban League, the Trumpet Award from Turner Broadcasting, University of Southern California’s Alumni Merit Award and the Alumni of the Year Award from the Black Management Association at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. She was appointed to the Chicago Public Library Board of Directors in March 2012.