The View from Inside Alaska Airlines

Marilyn Romano, Vice President of Alaska Airlines

Marilyn Romano is Alaska regional vice president for Alaska Airlines. She spent nearly two decades with the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, the second largest paper in Alaska, including 11 years as publisher. She was the newspaper’s first woman top executive. Marilyn serves on the boards of the Anchorage Economic Development Corporation and Rasmuson Foundation. She also serves on the Governor’s Aviation Advisory Board and is a member of the American Heart Association statewide board and the Alaska Airlines Foundation board. She’s been inducted into the ATHENA Society, named a YWCA of Alaska “Women of Achievement,” and recognized with a Top Forty Under 40 award from the Alaska Journal of Commerce, Woman of Distinction from the Farthest North Girl Scouts, and the Cashen Award for meritorious service to University of Alaska Fairbanks.  Marilyn and her husband, Brian, live in Anchorage.