Joanne M. Maguire

Biography

Maguire was born in January 1954 in the state of Connecticut. She has eleven siblings. Maguire is of Irish descent. Her father, Michael F. Maguire, worked as an aerospace engineer for United Aircraft (now called United Technologies) subsidiary of Pratt & Whitney. Maguire studied electrical engineering at Michigan State University and graduated with a bachelor's degree. She was a member of the university's Honor College. She later graduated from University of California, Los Angeles with a master's degree in engineering. Maguire also went to UCLA Anderson School of Management where she was a graduate of their executive program in management, and completed the Harvard Program for Senior Executives in National and International Security.

She joined TRW in 1975 and became responsible in technical and management positions within the company. Her main area was space system design and development ventures. Maguire later became TRW's deputy and Vice President of Business Development in January 2000 where she was responsible for the company's business development function. She oversaw TRW's strategy formulation, program development, marketing and communications, technology development and discretionary investment. Maguire stood down from the role in March 2003. She joined Lockheed Martin Space Systems in the same month where she was their Vice President of Special Programs for four months. In her role, Maguire focused on United States national security space system developments considered sensitive.

She became the company's first Executive Vice President in July 2003, and was also the first woman to become an officer of Lockheed Martin. Maguire became the Vice President of Lockheed Martin Space Systems in 2006. She oversaw several space exploration endeavors and the development and production for human space flight systems, weather satellites. She left the company in May 2013.