Vice President, Digital Launch Deployment
Scientific-Atlanta, Inc.
(profile at the time of induction in 1999)
Sherita T. Ceasar was once the highest-ranking black female engineer with Motorola's Paging Products Group; now, she is the Vice President of Digital Launch Deployment for Scientific-Atlanta Inc.
Ms. Ceasar is sought by a wide variety of schools, businesses and professional organizations to speak about education, quality, manufacturing and how to achieve extraordinary results. Often, she uses these opportunities to encourage young people to pursue careers in mathematics and science. She has been a mentor for young black women through a wide variety of organizations, including the Chicago Historical Society's "I Dream A World" Sojourner program, the Society of Women Engineers program for minority high school girls in the Chicago public school district and the Georgia 100 Mentor Exchange Program.
Ms. Ceasar won the 1997 Women of Color Technology Award and the 1994 Black Engineer of the Year Special Recognition Award. Her work has also been recognized with the Society of Women Engineers' Distinguished New Engineer of the Year Award and the Julia Beveridge Award, given to an outstanding woman supporting the Illinois Institute of Technology. Today, she is president-elect of the Society of Women Engineers.
