Top women CEOs

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May 20, 2010 1:50 PM EDT

Xerox Corp.'s chief executive Ursula Burns will assume the additional role of chairman of the office document management company on Thursday, the first African- American woman to lead a Fortune 500 company.

Here is a list of 15 Fortune 500 companies that are run by women as issued by Fortune on May 3, 2010:

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