Since March of 2001, Benita Fitzgerald Mosley has served as President of Women in Cable Telecommunications (WICT), a 5,000-member association for women in the rapidly converging telecommunications industries. For 25 years, WICT has supported its mission to develop women leaders who transform our industry and continues to play a significant role in determining how women will contribute to the fast changing world of broadband, telecommunications and cable. WICT’s PAR Initiative is the organization’s latest groundbreaking study that measures the cable industry in three areas that are key to women’s success: Pay Equity, Advancement Opportunities, and Resources for Work/Life Support.
Benita Fitzgerald Mosley manages all activities of the WICT association and the WICT Foundation to include staff, budget, fundraising, research, programs and events, marketing, member services and the oversight of 21 Chapters. In November 2004, Benita was named “Cable TV Executive of the Year” by Television Week Magazine, an honor she shares with the entire WICT family.
Benita joined WICT after serving the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) in a variety of roles beginning in 1995. As the USOC’s Director of Olympic Training Centers from 1997 to 2000, Benita managed a staff of 175 and a $15.5 million budget as she managed all athletes, facilities, programs, and operations for all four Olympic training centers around the country. Her initial position with the USOC was as director of the ARCO Olympic Training Center in San Diego from 1995-1997. In 2000 -2001, Benita served as director of all public relations programs for the USOC and chair of the USOC Diversity Committee.
Benita is a current trustee and past president of the Board of Trustees of the Women's Sports Foundation, an organization that promotes opportunities for girls and women in sports and fitness through education, advocacy, awards and grant programs. Benita is also a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., and the Boards of Directors of the International Swimming Hall of Fame and the VA Sports Hall of Fame.
Benita’s professional success was preceded by an equally successful career as a world-class athlete. Benita won a gold medal in the 100-meter hurdles in the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, CA. Benita was a member of the 1980 and 1984 U. S. Olympic Teams and an Alternate on the 1988 U. S. Olympic Team. She is the second American, after Babe Didrickson, and the first African-American woman to win an Olympic gold medal in the 100-meter hurdles. Benita was also a gold medalist in the 1983 Pan American Games, an eight-time national champion, and a 15-time All-American.
As a result of her many accomplishments, Benita was named “Sportswoman of the Century” by The Potomac News, a newspaper that covers the northern Virginia area. Benita was also named by Sports Illustrated as the “Top Female Sports Figure of the Century from Virginia”. She is an inductee into both the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame and the Virginia High School Hall of Fame.
In 1996, Benita was honored as one of eight U.S. Olympians to carry the Olympic Flag into the stadium during the Opening Ceremonies of the Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta. Also in 1996, the U.S. Sports Academy named her its 1996 Distinguished Service Award winner. Named "Hurdler of the Decade" for the 1980s by Track and Field News, she was honored with a street named Benita Fitzgerald Drive in her hometown of Dale City, VA in 1987. Benita is a 1984 graduate of the University of Tennessee (UT) in Industrial Engineering, and was inducted as a charter member of the UT Lady Vols Hall of Fame in 2001. She is also a member of the Penn Relays Hall of Fame.
Benita’s professional experience also includes an engineering career that began in 1985 and spanned six years in the design and development of software and hardware systems for Navy, Army, and Air Force defense contractors. In 1991, she began her career in sports marketing and administration as a Regional Director for Special Olympics International in Washington, DC. Benita was Program Director for the marketing division of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games from 1993-1995.
Benita is married to Ron Mosley and they have two young children, Isaiah and Maya. Benita and her family reside in Haymarket, VA.