Sherry Lansing, the former CEO of Paramount Motion Pictures Group, has been named the keynote commencement speaker for Chapman University’s Ddoge College of Film and Media Arts ceremony May 20.
Lansing currently chairs the board of Universal Music Group, and she also served on the University of California Board of Regents. Producing credits for Lansing include movies like “Fatal Attraction” and “The Accused.”
“Sherry Lansing is one of the most remarkable people ever to work in Hollywood,” said Dodge College dean Stephen Galloway. “She not only proved that women are just as capable leaders as men, she outshone them all and she did it by showing that power and kindness can go hand in hand.