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Lela Mae Wilkes

Lela Mae Wilkes is the owner and chief executive officer of Brown Eagle Group Inc, where leadership has been provided since August 1977 in one of the largest supply chain solution companies in the South. Prior to this role, Lela held various positions, including president, controller, and accountant at Ethyl Corporation from August 1972 to August 1977. Lela Mae Wilkes holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business from Northwestern State University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Louisiana State University.

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Brown Eagle Group Inc

Brown Eagle Group, Inc. specializes in bringing logistics solutions to manufacturers across America. The woman-owned, Louisiana business serves as a chemical industry partner and offers a wide variety of services including industrial logistics management, logistics labor services, packaging, materials handling, rail loading and switching, warehousing and fulfillment. Brown Eagle is a respected industry partner known for its dedication to safety, quality and continuous improvement. In 1968, founder R.T. Brown recognized that packaging, shipping, logistics and warehousing functions were fundamentally different from chemical manufacturing. Since then, Brown Eagle has provided comprehensive post-manufacturing solutions for local and national industrial partners, including several Fortune 500 companies. Lela Mae Wilkes, owner and chief executive operator, joined Brown Eagle as the controller in 1977 and quickly became an integral part of the company’s management team. Wilkes was promoted to vice president in 1983 and president in 1987. Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, Wilkes was responsible for growing Brown Eagle to more than 500 employees with concurrent projects in Louisiana, Texas, Alabama and Kentucky. Wilkes and the entire Brown Eagle team strives to exceed customers’ expectations by being the leading provider of safe, quality value-added services in the material handling industry. Brown Eagle is the only 100% woman-owned chemical packaging and material handling service provider working inside chemical plants in the Gulf South and we want to be your logistics partner!