Leadership & Board of Directors

Vice president - corporate communications & Brand management

Sonya L. Higginbotham

Worthington Industries Inc.

Sonya Higginbotham was named vice president of corporate communications and brand management in September 2018. She leads the Company’s internal and external communications, brand strategy, marketing, government relations and philanthropic activities.
 
Higginbotham joined Worthington Industries in 1997 in the corporate training and development department. In 1999, she was named community relations coordinator where she helped form the Company’s first corporate communications department. In the following years, she grew the department and her responsibilities. In 2007, Higginbotham was named director of corporate communications. In 2011, she was named to Business First’s 40 Under 40 list and in 2014 received Otterbein University’s Young Alumni Award for Professional Achievement.
 
Higginbotham is active in a number of local organizations. She is currently a member of the advisory board of the Salvation Army and serves as chair of the Community Relations committee. She is also a member of Mid-Ohio Food Bank’s mobilizing the public committee and served on the board of Junior Achievement of Central Ohio for 10 years. She is past president of the Columbus Chapter of the Association of Women in the Metal Industries, past trustee of the Westerville Library and delivers Meals on Wheels to the elderly in Columbus.
 
Higginbotham is a graduate of Otterbein University with a bachelor’s degree in business & organizational communications and Franklin University with a master’s degree in marketing. She is married to husband, Carl, and together they have two children.