Delia M. Reyes Delia Reyes is the first woman to have served as Chairman of the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. She is also one of only a dozen Hispanic women in the country to have served on the Board of a Fortune 500 company. She is currently a gubernatorial appointee on the Board of Directors of Texas Mutual Insurance Company. She held gubernatorial appointments to the Board Regents for Texas Woman’s University, State Bar of Texas and to the Governor’s Commission on Women. She serves on the Board of the Community Council of Greater Dallas. In 1992, she was appointed to the Federal Glass Ceiling Commission by President George H.W. Bush. Mrs. Reyes lectures and makes public speaking appearances on workforce diversity, glass ceiling and minority business issues, and domestic and international Hispanic marketing. She has addressed both private and public -sector groups, including AT&T, JCPenney, Texas Instruments and Mary Kay Cosmetics, North Texas State University, Southern Methodist University, Texas A&M University, Weber State University and the Governor of Puerto Rico’s Hispanic Leadership Summit, among others. Delia Reyes came to the United States from Cuba in 1962 with her parents. She married Adrian Reyes in 1965 and they have one son, Victor. She is most proud of her family and credits her accomplishments to their support. In 1994 she co-founded and served as the first chairman of The Hispanic 100, a group of Hispanic women leaders in Dallas that strives to serve as catalysts for change and to highlight the accomplishments of Hispanic women in the area. A scholarship was named after her by St. Mary’s College in California and she was selected as one of the 100 most influential Hispanics by Hispanic Business Magazine in 1995.

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