Janie L. Mines

Janie L. Mines is an American former naval officer who was the first African-American woman to graduate from the United States Naval Academy, where she earned a Bachelor of Science in 1980. After serving in a variety of roles in the U.S. Navy, she held management positions in a variety of corporations and became a management consultant. In 2002, she was an Olympic torchbearer.

Early life

Mines was born in 1958 in Aiken, South Carolina. where she had been a member of the Navy Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps JROTC unit, a National Honor Society Student, and was her graduating Class Salutatorian. ==Naval career==

Naval career

In August 1975, the U.S. Congress authorized the admittance of women to its military service academies. Mines was the first and only African-American woman of the 81 women who entered the U.S. Naval Academy (USNA) in 1976. Mines also served as a senior advisor on the staff of the Secretary of the Navy. ==Post-navy career==

Post-navy career

Mines left the Navy to earn a Masters of Business Administration from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), with a 1998 thesis entitled "Integrated change management". She held positions in management in several corporations, including Procter & Gamble and Hershey Foods, and was Senior Vice President of Strategic Sourcing at Bank of America. ==Honors==

Honors

In 2002, Mines was a torchbearer in the Olympic Torch Relay, and has received local civic awards. She was also subject of a USNA video, Courage. == See also ==

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