Diane Sauer Reflects on the Auto Industry’s Past
WARREN, Ohio – Diane Sauer started at Martin Chevrolet in 1975 as an office manager trainee, newly minted with an accounting degree from The Ohio State University.
In 1983, she became the dealership’s general manager, and 10 years later she took over the dealership.
She attended dealership association events as one of the few women running car dealerships at that time.
“It was a challenge,” Sauer says, explaining that it wasn’t so much the meetings themselves as the social events. “They were geared towards men. And there were some tough fits once in a while.”
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