James Palmer

Prior to retiring, James F. Palmer was senior financial executive at Northrop Grumman where he had significant leadership experience in financing, reorganization, investment management, contracts and investor relations. Before joining Northrop Grumman, he held CFO positions at Fortune 500 companies, McDonnell Douglas and Visteon. He was president of Boeing Capital and former audit partner at Ernst & Young. Palmer is a dedicated and longtime supporter of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) and has completed four marathons with Team In Training. He was honored with the Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2015 Leukemia Ball in Washington, D.C. His commitment to LLS and its mission to find cures for blood cancers is deeply personal, having lost his 26-year-old son to acute myeloid leukemia.