Brenda C. Barnes is the president, chairman and chief executive of Sara Lee, and previously was the first female CEO of Sara Lee. She has been listed in Forbes power rankings of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women since 2004.
Barnes, a graduate of East Leyden High School, Augustana College and Loyola University, has moved Sara Lee's headquarters out of downtown Chicago to suburban Downers Grove.

Career

1975: BA, Economics, Augustana College
1978: MBA, Loyola University Chicago
1997: honorary doctor of humane letters, Augustana College