Although she failed to impress as the New York City Schools Chancellor for a mere three months, Cathie Black is the former president of Hearst Magazines.

A native of Chicago by 1972, Black had moved on to Gloria Steinem's Ms. magazine, where her success selling ads attracted the attention of Rupert Murdoch. In 1983, Black left New York and took the job of president at USA Today and following a stint running industry trade group the Newspaper Association of America, she joined Hearst in 1995.

Dubbed "The First Lady of American Magazines" during Hearst's impressive growth spurt in the late 1990s, Black late career suffered. Although she's had at least one big successful launch-Oprah's O-she's had more flops, perhaps most memorably, Tina Brown's Talk, produced in partnership with Miramax. She left Hearst in 2010, and after her work in print, Black garnered controversy for acting as the New York City Schools Chancellor in 2010, a job for which she had few qualifications, and then stepping down after only 95 days. [Image via Getty]