Mary Barra, a child of GM, prepares to lead it. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 38°F. Wednesday, January 15th 2025 Digital Replica Edition. Home Page. Close Menu. News.

Mary Barra, a child of GM, prepares to lead it December 25, 2013 / 8:54 AM EST / AP DETROIT - When Mary Barra was born in 1961, General Motors ( GM ) was selling half the cars on U.S. roads.

Her father spent 39 years working as a GM die-maker, and she often would go with him to dealer showrooms to check out the latest models. ... GM names Mary Barra as car industry’s first woman CEO.

Long before she ran a multibillion-dollar global company, General Motors CEO Mary Barra was a Girl Scout Brownie awestruck by the GM cars her father would bring home from the automaker's Pontiac ...

General Motors' CEO Mary Barra has changed her tune in recent months, flipping from closing US-based plants while keeping foreign facilities open to promising billions of dollars in investment for ...

When Mary Barra was born in 1961, General Motors was selling half the cars on U.S. roads. In her booming middle-class suburb north of Detroit, the woman who will soon become GM’s CEO remembers ...

Mary T. Barra, chief executive of General Motors, ... He, too, has spent his career at G.M. and had followed his own father, Lloyd Reuss, a former president of the company.

When Mary Barra took the helm as CEO of General Motors on January 15, 2014, at the age of 51, she became the first woman to lead a global automaker. The appointment raised the hopes of little ...

DETROIT — When Mary Barra was born in 1961, General Motors was selling half the cars on U.S. roads. In her booming middle-class suburb north of Detroit, the woman who will soon become GM’s CEO ...

When Mary Barra took the helm as CEO of General Motors on January 15, ... Barra’s father was a die-maker who worked for GM and inspired his daughter to become an electrical engineer.

DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Auto Writers DETROIT (AP) - When Mary Barra was born in 1962, General Motors was selling half the cars on U.S. roads. In her booming middle-class suburb north of Detroit, the ...

Mary Barra, left, Mark Reuss and David Leone react after the Cadillac ATS was named North American Car of the Year at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit in January. DETROIT ...