News / Cynthia Earhart new exec-VP and CFO at Norfolk Southern

Norfolk Southern has appointed Cynthia Earhart as executive vice president and chief financial officer, effective immediately.

The appointment follows a 1 August announcement that CFO Marta Stewart had retired.

Ms Earhart has spent more than three decades with the carrier, joining the accounting department in 1985 after a spell with Ernst and Whinney.

Since then, she gained increasing levels of responsibility before moving on to information technology, where she was named vice president 2001.

In 2007 Ms Earhart moved departments again to take over as VP human resources before ...