Dolores was elected the first woman and first Black to the boards of three corporations: Phillips Petroleum, the multinational food company Kellogg’s—where she initiated and chaired both companies’ first social responsibility committees—and the media company Gannett. She also served on the boards of both Michigan Bell Telephone and New York Telephone, the Michigan Council on the Arts under Gov. William Milliken, and was appointed by President Gerald Ford as a founding member to the National Council on the Arts. In…
