Marilyn F. Booker
Managing Director and Head of Diversity — North America
SMorgan Stanley
Marilyn F. Booker joined Morgan Stanley in January 1994 and is a Managing Director and Head of Diversity for North America. She works closely with her colleagues to design and implement innovative programs for Morgan Stanley's diverse employees and to help employees meet the demanding challenge of balancing work obligations with personal responsibilities. The programs that have been implemented at Morgan Stanley have received numerous accolades for their innovation and practical application from organizations like Working Mother magazine (one of the "100 Best Companies for Working Mothers"), Latina Style magazine (one of the "50 Best Companies for Latinas to Work for in the U.S."), Piedmont Parent magazine (one of the "Top 40 Family-Friendly Places to Work in North Carolina") and Essence magazine (one of the "Outstanding Companies for Black Women"), to name a few.
Booker is an attorney by training. She has practiced in the areas of criminal defense litigation, municipal finance, corporate bankruptcies and corporate restructuring. A native of Chicago, she received her B.A. magna cum laude from Spelman College and her J.D. from the Illinois Institute of Technology–Chicago Kent College of Law. Booker is a Trustee of the Morgan Stanley Foundation and serves on two of Morgan Stanley's internal committees—The Residential Mortgage Franchise Risk Committee and The Morgan Stanley Benefit Plan Administrative Committee.
Booker recently testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations at its hearing on diversity in the financial services sector. She appeared on ABC World News Tonight with Charlie Gibson in a segment on women and the workforce and was featured in a CBS MarketWatch Weekend segment highlighting Morgan Stanley's Emergency Day Care program. She was also recognized by the Network Journal as one of the "25 Influential Black Women in Business."
