Money | Fortune 500 Meet the Record 18 Female CEOs on the Fortune 500 In her first year on the list, Ginni Rometty does very well By Evann Gastaldo Posted Oct 30, 2011 8:10 AM CDT Copied In this Oct. 23, 2011 photo, Meg Whitman, (then) a republican candidate for Calif. Governor, campaigns at Saigon Kitchen, in San Jose, Calif. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma) A record 18 female CEOs are included on the 2012 Fortune 500, CNNMoney reports. Eight of them made it into the top 100: Meg Whitman: Hewlett-Packard, No. 11 Ginni Rometty: IBM, No. 18 Patricia Woertz: Archer Daniels Midland, No. 39 Angela Braly: WellPoint, No. 42 Indra Nooyi: PepsiCo, No. 43 Irene Rosenfeld: Kraft Foods, No. 49 Lynn Elsenhans: Sunoco, No. 68 Ellen Kullman: DuPont, No. 84 Click for all 18. Read These Next Beyonce leaves national anthem unfinished. Musk says his new party is in business. A Texas man's disappearance is fodder for true-crime mania. Kerr County considered a flood warning system years ago. Report an error