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With talk of Mary Barra as one of four potential successors to Dan Akerson as CEO of General Motors, it seems like ripe time to take a step back and acknowledge the most powerful women in the auto industry. Forbes made that easy for us by compiling a top-10 list, and sitting at the top is no other than Mary Barra.
That was a no-brainer, after watching her “No more crappy cars” speech](http://www.autoblog.com/2013/10/17/gms-mary-barra-no-more-crappy-cars-video/) at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit in October, but who would fill out the rest of the list and in what order remained a mystery.
But as Forbes’ list points out, the most powerful women in the auto industry make a diverse crowd, with communications and marketing executives, a professional racecar driver/celebrity, engineers and even a CEO of a major Canadian parts company (Linamar). Take a look below to see who made the list, then head over to Forbes](http://money.cnn.com/gallery/leadership/2013/11/25/most-powerful-women-autos.fortune/index.html) if you want a brief description of why they’re considered to be at the top of their game:
- Mary Barra - GM, Executive vice president global product development and global purchasing and supply chain
- Grace Lieblein - GM, Vice president global purchasing and supply chain
- Julie Hamp - Toyota Motor North America, Chief communications officer
- Danica Patrick](http://www.autoblog.com/tag/danica+patrick/) - Racecar driver
- Alicia Boler-Davis - GM, Senior vice president global quality and global customer experience
- Barb Samardzich - Ford Motor, Vice president and chief operating officer, Ford of Europe
- Chris Barman - Chrysler Group LLC, Vehicle line executive
- Linda Hasenfratz - Linamar, CEO
- Trudy Hardy - BMW of North America, Vice president of marketing
- Elena Ford - Ford Motor, Vice president global dealer and consumer experience
Forbes ranks 10 most powerful women in autos originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 26 Nov 2013 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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