University of Pennsylvania. Executive Vice President.

The postion of the Executive Vice President was created by the President F. Sheldon Hackney in 1983 under the title of Senior Vice President. The role of this person was to be the top administrative assistant to the President of the University. The title was changed to Executive Vice President in 1992. Helen B. O'Bannon was the first person to hold the title of Senior Vice President.

Helen B. O'Bannon was born in 1939 and was educated at Wellesley College, where she took her B.A. in economics. After receiving a master's degree from Stanford, she studied toward a Ph.D. in business at Pittsburgh. She was nominated by Governor Milton Schapp as the first woman commissioner on the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission. In 1979, she was appointed by the Republican Governor Richard Thornburgh as Secretary of Public Welfare for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to head the state's largest agency.

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