Elizabeth W. Adkins (born 1957) is an American archivist who was the President of the

Society of American Archivists The Society of American Archivists is the oldest and largest archivist Voluntary association, association in North America, serving the educational and informational needs of more than 5,000 individual archivist and institutional members. Establi ...

. She was the leading archivist at the

Ford Motor Company Ford Motor Company (commonly known as Ford) is an American multinational corporation, multinational automobile manufacturer headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, United States. It was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. T ...

and

Kraft Foods Kraft Foods Group, Inc. was an American food manufacturing and processing conglomerate (company), conglomerate, split from Kraft Foods Inc. on October 1, 2012, and was headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. It became part of Kraft Heinz on July ...

. Since 2015, she has worked at

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as the Director of Information Governance.

Education

Adkins was born in 1957. She attended

Binghamton University The State University of New York at Binghamton (Binghamton University or SUNY Binghamton) is a public university, public research university in Binghamton metropolitan area, Greater Binghamton, New York, United States. It is one of the four uni ...

for her BA in History and attended

Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The institution was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools. In 1912, it became the Carnegie Institu ...

for her MA in history.

Career

Adkins spent 11 years as the manager of Archives Services for Kraft Foods. She also served the Ford Motor Company for 12 years where she led the Global Information Management Program. She became a Certified Archivist, Certified Records Manager, and certified Information Governance Professional. Adkins was the

Treasurer from 2000 to 2003, and later served as vice president and President of the Society. She also served as chair for the Business Archives Section and has taught the Business Archives Workshop since 1992. She is also a Certified Archivist and has served the Academy of Certified Archivists as president. She has also served the International Council on Archives and ARMA International. She has served as chairperson of the Northern Virginia chapter of ARMA and has been elected Chapter Leader of the Year for five of the past six years. Adkins has spoken at several conferences and events on archives. She has also researched and written on archives in publications, including "A History of the Ford Motor Company Archives, with Reflection on Archival Documentation of Ford of Europe's History," "Our Journey toward Diversity—and a Call to (More) Action," and "The Development of Business Archives in the United States: An Overview and a Personal Perspective." She has written essays and reviews for journals including the ''

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''. In 2015, Adkins moved to Grant Thornton where she was working in 2018.

Awards and honors

* Society of American Archivists Fellow Award, 2002 * Distinguished Service Award from the Academy of Certified Archivists

References

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