Super Tuesday Conference is a program designed to host business and professional women from throughout the metro Atlanta community during its Annual Super Tuesday series of events and workshops. Twenty-six years ago, the Women In Business Committee of the Atlanta Business League decided to create a forum for African-American women business owners and professionals to interact. They solicited the support of Mayor Shirley Franklin who was then the Chief Operating Officer for the City of Atlanta and Fulton County Commissioner Michael Lomax. Being a woman and understanding the plight of women across the board, Ms. Franklin was responsible for providing the first $5,000 grant to the Women in Business Committee for the first Super Tuesday program in 1984. This year our very own Marie Fowler has won the Super Tuesday Award in the category of "Success Against the Odds".

Biographical Sketch

A proud Haitian born individual, Marie J. Fowler literally was raised in a one-room island hut, caring for
three other siblings from as early as age six. Marie J. Fowler came to the United States at age 16 only to begin work and school with the sole agenda to financially assist the rest of her family, beginning with her mother and father and extending to each of her siblings, in Haiti. Through her labor, Marie Fowler paved the way for the entire family to make the miraculous journey to the United States and ultimately U.S. Citizenship. After college in 1995 Marie Fowler married, and with $0 start-up capital, founded American Technologies, then, a small computer manufacturing company. Over the past fifteen years as CEO, Marie Fowler has been very instrumental in helping the company to make millions while home schooling and raising her six children. Marie Fowler speaks four languages, but most of all, the language of Success… against the odds. ”

Success Against the Odds