Mary Schiavo

Mary became a pilot at 18, made the covers of Glamour and TIME, worked as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, was a federal organized crime prosecutor for the Department of Justice, and was an outspoken Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Transportation from 1990 to 1996. She is the recipient of many awards and honors, among them: 1987 Outstanding Working Woman, Aviation Laurel, Aviation Laurel Citation, National Public Service Award, Glamour Magazine 1997 Woman of the Year, 1998 NADA/F Aviation Safety award, and the 2002 American Society for Public Administration (Section on Transportation Policy and Administration) Lawrence J. Truitt Award for her outstanding leadership and professional contributions to aviation safety and security. She is the author of one of Business Week's 1997 top 10 business books of the year and New York Times bestseller, "Flying Blind, Flying Safe," was a professor of public policy and then aviation at Ohio State University, and finally, is now a full-time, named partner in Baum, Hedlund, Aristei, Guilford & Schiavo.