The former first baseman would become the highest-ranking black executive of a professional sports league.

In today's office, only the highest-ranking executives still have their own personal assistants.

It was left to the studios whom to send to testify today, and those who did were not the companies' highest-ranking executives.

Microsoft is one of the few big companies not to give options to its highest-ranking executives.

Under his watch the company lost a race-discrimination suit initiated years earlier, and the highest-ranking black executive resigned.

As such, he is the highest-ranking black executive in major league baseball.

He is now one of the league's highest-ranking black executives.

And she was a woman, the highest-ranking female executive in America, in an industry where women are particularly scarce at the top.