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Joyce Beatty: “Thank you, because we introduced the Beatty rule after the Rooney rule, and now we have a Black man for the first time…”

On the recordJuly 11, 2017
Thank you, because we introduced the Beatty rule after the Rooney rule, and now we have a Black man for the first time, Chairman Bostic out of Atlanta, who is on the National Federal Reserve Board.
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Joyce Beatty
Democratic · Ohio

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Beatty acknowledges the significance of diversity in leadership positions.

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