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Ann Dibble Jordan (née Dibble; born 1935) is an American company director and former social worker.


Social work

Jordan is secretary of the board for Sasha Bruce Youthwork. She was an associate professor at the School of Social Service Administration of the
University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the b ...
from 1970 to 1987, director of social services of Chicago Lying-in Hospital from 1970 to 1985, and director of the Department of Social Services for the
University of Chicago Medical Center The University of Chicago Medical Center (UChicago Medicine) is a nationally ranked academic medical center located in Hyde Park on the South Side of Chicago. It is the flagship campus for The University of Chicago Medicine system and was establis ...
from 1986 to 1987.


Business

Jordan is vice chairman and secretary of
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, and an honorary trustee of the University of Chicago and
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in Washington, D.C. She is the former chairman of the
National Symphony Orchestra The National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) is an American symphony orchestra based in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1930, its principal performing venue is the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. It also performs for the annual National Mem ...
, and former trustee of the
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK or MSKCC) is a cancer treatment and research institution in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, founded in 1884 as the New York Cancer Hospital. MSKCC is one of 52 National Cancer Institute– ...
. She was field work director of
Citigroup Citigroup Inc. or Citi (Style (visual arts), stylized as citi) is an American multinational investment banking, investment bank and financial services corporation headquartered in New York City. The company was formed by the merger of banking ...
from 1989 to 2007. She is a former director of Revlon, Inc.,
Johnson & Johnson Johnson & Johnson (J&J) is an American multinational corporation founded in 1886 that develops medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and consumer packaged goods. Its common stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the company i ...
,
Automatic Data Processing ADP, Inc. (originally an acronym for Automatic Data Processing) is an American provider of human resources management software and services. History In 1949, Henry Taub founded Automatic Payrolls, Inc. as a manual payroll processing business wit ...
,
Coleman Company The Coleman Company, Inc. is an American brand of outdoor recreation products, especially camping gear, now owned by Newell Brands. The company's new headquarters are in Chicago, and it has facilities in Wichita, Kansas, and in Texas. There are ...
, Salant Corp., Travelers Group Inc. and
The Phillips Collection The Phillips Collection is an art museum founded by Duncan Phillips and Marjorie Acker Phillips in 1921 as the Phillips Memorial Gallery located in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Phillips was the grandson of James H. Laughlin, ...
. She was a recipient of the American Woman Award from the Women's Research & Education Institute in 2004.


Politics

With her husband she organized a Democratic fundraiser in 1994 that raised $3 million. She co-chaired President
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's Inauguration committee in 1996. In 2004, she was one of the five-member board of directors of the
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.


Personal life

She married
Vernon Jordan Vernon Eulion Jordan Jr. (August 15, 1935 – March 1, 2021) was an American business executive and civil rights attorney who worked for various civil rights movement organizations before becoming a close advisor to President Bill Clinton. Jor ...
in 1986, and has five children and nine grandchildren. She is a member of
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.


References

1935 births American social workers American women in business Clinton Foundation people Living people University of Chicago faculty American women academics 21st-century American women {{US-business-bio-1930s-stub