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Ford Announces HR Executive Director

1 March 2000

Ford Announces HR Executive Director

    DEARBORN, Mich., March 1 -- Ford Motor Company
announced today the appointment of Joe W. Laymon as executive director, Human
Resources Business Operations.
    Laymon, 47, comes from Eastman Kodak Company where he served four years as
director and vice president of Human Resources, Consumer Imaging, for the
United States, Canada and other worldwide regions.
    Prior to that, Laymon spent 17 years at Xerox Corporation in a number of
senior human resources positions.  He also worked for the U.S. State
Department with assignments in Zaire and Washington D.C.
    "We are delighted to have Joe join our leadership team at Ford Motor
Company," said David L. Murphy, Ford vice president, Human Resources.  "Joe
brings extensive background in all human resource disciplines.  He is a great
addition to our team."
    Laymon is an active board member of numerous organizations, including the
Douglas A. Fraser Center for Workplace Issues, National Technical Institute
for the Deaf at the Rochester Institute of Technology and Otetiana Council Boy
Scouts of America.  He also is a member of the National Urban League and the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
    Laymon, a native of Enterprise, Miss., holds a master's degree in
economics from the University of Wisconsin and a bachelor of science in
economics and accounting from Jackson State University.  He and his wife,
Dianne, have three children.