Accuride’s Marhevko wins quality management award

Jd Marhevko 2012 4x5Jd Marhevko, vice president, Quality/Lean Management Systems & EHS at Accuride, has received the Howard Jones Award by the global quality organization ASQ.

The award was presented by ASQ’s Quality Management Division (QMD), a 24,000-member organization to which Marhevko has belonged since 1988.  Chair of the ASQ QMD from 2009 to 2011, Marhevko received the award for her “continued dedication to QMD.”

“Jd has been a tireless contributor to ASQ’s Quality Management Division and has served in numerous leadership positions, including Chair of the Division,” says Milt Krivokuca, Chair of the ASQ QMD Nominating Committee.  “Her commitment to QMD has helped foster recognition of QMD as a model of organizational excellence.  Her personal dedication to sharing her knowledge of strategic quality management processes and Lean Six Sigma tools with her peers at numerous conferences and workshops around the world has advanced the state of the art of the Quality profession.  Honoring Jd as the 2015 Howard Jones Award recipient is an expression of ASQ’s gratitude for her leadership contributions to the organization and our profession.”

“I am honored to have been named this year’s Howard Jones Award recipient and can’t imagine a more effective and collaborative group of quality professionals in the world with whom to be associated,” says Marhevko.  “I appreciate the opportunity ASQ has given me to make a difference in our profession by providing meaningful value to members.”

The Howard Jones Award is the ASQ Quality Management Division’s highest individual honor.  It is given in recognition of outstanding long-term service and leadership resulting in substantial progress toward the fulfillment of the Division’s programs and goals, the organization says. The award is named for Howard L. Jones of Illinois Bell, who served as the first Chair of ASQ’s Quality Management Division (then called the Administrative Applications Division).

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