GM appoints first African-American female as design chief

Posted: Nov 13, 2008
Filed under: GM, Industry News

President-elect Barack Obama isn’t the only one marking a first for African-Americans across the nation. GM announced today that it has appointed Crystal Windham as the company’s director of design, the first African-American female to take the position.

Windham, 35, took over the position on November 1st as director of North America passenger-car design. She will lead the interior design for feature mid-sized, compact and small cars, reports Automotive News.

Windham has been with GM since 1994 and was the lead designer on the beautiful 2008 Chevrolet Malibu.

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  • the world was 1 piece of land : AFRICA !!!! before getting hit by unknown shit from space which separated to 5 different contents
  • Allen
    Unless a clearer picture reveals otherwise (what was this, taken on a cell-phone camera?), I'd buy any GM car so long as she came with it.

    And the 08 Malibu is the only GM car sold in America that I like the looks of at all. They make some good looking cars elsewhere, yes, but otherwise just the Malibu. Hopefully she can make a good looking car for GM's compact division by bringing us the Cruze earlier :)
  • Bobmarley
    African American...smushmerican ...bla bla bla bla bla... The fact that people make such a big deal out of race is like reverse racism. And it is irrelevant to these people’s responsibilities including the POTUS.

    Does race really matter if their ideas and decisions are flawed? The focus on ethnicity and the great day in “history” had blinded the majority from what really matters!!!

    tough times call for tough decisions

    (FYI - im not saying Crystal is the wrong person for the job in any way)
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