Dawne Hickton
| Dawne Hickton | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 2, 1957 |
| Residence | Pennsylvania |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Pitt (Law School) JD (1983) |
| Alma mater | University of Rochester (1979) |
| Occupation | Business executive Law professor |
| Years active | 29+ |
| Employer | RTI |
| Home town | Niagara Falls, NY, USA |
| Spouse(s) | David Hickton |
| Awards | Crohn's & Colitis Foundation |
Dawne Eileen Sepanski Hickton (born November 2, 1957) is an American business executive and former CEO of Pittsburgh-based RTI International Metals. She is notable for being one of the few women business leaders to manage a large publicly traded firm. During the last few years, she pursued numerous acquisitions to grow RTI into an end-to-end supplier of titanium components for clients such as Boeing and Airbus, and for making components for the military aircraft such as the Joint Strike Fighter. She pursued a strategy of buying specialty firms such as Remmele Engineering, the Forming Division of Aeromet, and others as part of a program of vertical integration. In March, 2015, RTI International Metals, Inc. was acquired by Alcoa in a stock-for-stock transaction valued at $1.5 billion.
Hickton grew up in Niagara Falls, New York. According to one account, she knew from the age of ten that she wanted to be a trial attorney representing corporations in courtrooms. She attended the University of Rochester where she was the homecoming queen and graduated in 1979. She took a year off, and then studied at the law school of the University of Pittsburgh, and graduated in 1983. She worked as a Corporate Trial Attorney at U.S. Steel from 1983 to 1994, and represented the firm before the Equal Employment Advisory Counsel. She was promoted to general attorney of commercial litigation, after winning a billion-dollar lawsuit for the steelmaker. She served as president of the Pitt's chapter of the American Inns of Court. She worked as an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law from 1994 to 1997. She worked at the law firm of Burns, White and Hickton for several years.
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