After 118 years, a female member of the Ford family is set to join the automakers' board
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Alexandra Ford English is about to be the first female member of the Ford family elected to the board of the automaker that the men in her family have run since 1903.
Ford English is the 33-year-old daughter of William Clay Ford Jr., the company's executive chairman. Also poised to join the board is Henry Ford III, 40, son of current director Edsel Ford II, who is retiring from that position. The cousins are the first great-great-grandchildren of company founder Henry Ford to be board members. The two family members still must be elected by shareholders, but there's little chance they won't be. The Ford family has controlled the majority of Ford (F) stock voting shares since it went public in 1956.More Related News