Bonnie McElveen-Hunter is one of the most popular and richest Businesswoman who was born on June 29, 1950 in Washington, D.C., United States.
She graduated in 1968 from Bellevue High School in Nebraska. She attended Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri where she started to study fashion design but later switched to business law and marketing. After graduating she moved to Charlotte, North Carolina and worked for Bank of America where she was the first woman in their executive training program. She then worked for Community Publishing, as an advertising executive for Charlotte Magazine. In 1972 she moved to Greensboro, North Carolina to work for Republican congressman Walter E. Johnston, III and started Pace Magazine, which later became Pace Communications . Pace was ranked by Working Woman Magazine as one of the top 175 women-owned business in America.
McElveen-Hunter founded Pace Communications, Inc. in 1973 and serves as the current Chief Executive Officer and Owner. She currently also serves as the Chairwoman of the Board of the American Red Cross and as a member of the Board of Trustees at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. She has also served as a Trustee of the RAND Corporation and is a founder of the United Way Billion Dollar National Women’s Leadership Initiative. In 2003 she initiated Stop Child Trafficking: End Modern-Day Slavery and Children of Karelia. She served as chairperson of the Alexis de Tocqueville Society and served on the United Way of America Board as a member of its National Leadership Council. She was also a member of the International Board of Directors of Habitat for Humanity. She served as co-chairwoman of the annual national meeting of the Young Presidents Organization in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has also served on the University of North Carolina at Greensboro Advisory Board, the Greensboro Development Corporation, the Renaissance Campaign of the United Arts Council, and the board of First Union National Bank. McElveen-Hunter has also served on the boards for iCivics, The Collectors Committee of the National Gallery of Art, the Washington National Opera, Blair House, Macedonian Ministry, Inc., National Portrait Gallery, Max Planck Florida Institute, and on the executive committee of The Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach.
