He's risen to be the company's highest-ranking black.    From Wordnik.com.  [Battleground Chicago] Reference

BERNARD: And she didn't even get the highest-ranking sales.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 27, 2004] Reference

Anne Hathaway is the highest-ranking woman in the No. 2 spot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hollywood's Best Actors For The Buck] Reference

Gen. Claudia Kennedy, one of the highest-ranking women in the U.S.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kennedy's Story Of Her Assault] Reference

I once met with one of the highest-ranking members of the IRA in his home.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Evans: Belfast's Messed Up Minority and Their Media Support] Reference

Admiral James Stockdale was the highest-ranking prisoner of war in Vietnam.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: 'Kid Whispering': Keeping Children Safe With Verbal First Aid] Reference

But this is 2002, and Kukura is among the highest-ranking businessmen in the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Back To The Future] Reference

Last year he became the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit North Korea since the war.    From Wordnik.com.  [Traveling Behind Enemy Lines] Reference

BLITZER: Nancy Pelosi, the minority whip, the highest-ranking women ever to serve in the U.S.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 28, 2002] Reference

And he just happens to be the highest-ranking Senator on the White House's deficit commission.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Scher: Highest Ranking Senator On Debt Commission Heeds Warning From 300 Economists. Will Anyone Else?] Reference

Virginia Tech – at No. 10, the highest-ranking ACC team in the preseason poll – received no votes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mike London: ACC will be viewed 'more positively' in long run] Reference

She's one of the highest-ranking women on Wall Street, and maybe more important, she and Mack go way back.    From Wordnik.com.  [SLOW-MOTION MAKEOVER] Reference

That made him the highest-ranking Tibetan figure to defect since the Dalai Lama fled to India 40 years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [China's Balkan Crisis] Reference

The five highest-ranking Republicans on Tweet Congress, led by McCain, have a combined 1.3 million followers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who’s Winning the Twitter Wars?] Reference

Al-Sadr was offering to hand over nominal control of the shrine to him, as the Shiite's highest-ranking cleric.    From Wordnik.com.  [EYEWITNESS TO A SIEGE] Reference

KAYYEM: Well, we clearly got information from Abu Zubaydah, the highest-ranking al Qaeda member we have in custody.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 10, 2002] Reference

Detroit's highest-ranking Brit finds all this talk of going across the pond to get a better view of America a load of rubbish.    From Wordnik.com.  [BRITISH INVASION] Reference

As Smith points out, News Corp's highest-ranking Democratic executive, former #2 exec Peter Chernin, left the company last year.    From Wordnik.com.  [News Corp Donates $1 MILLION To Republican Governors Association] Reference

Hwang, whose wife and three children were still in Pyongyang, became the highest-ranking official ever to defect from the North.    From Wordnik.com.  [Defection In Beijing] Reference

When New Jersey gets a five, the highest-ranking states get a nine, the lowest get a three, how concerned you are about that number.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 15, 2004] Reference

Baibars and the sultan and the highest-ranking emirs seated themselves on cushions in an open pavilion facing the center of the field.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference

Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef is the former Taliban ambassador to Pakistan and one of the highest-ranking Taliban officials in U.S. custody.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt: 'Look, Danny's Talking To You'] Reference

The industry minister was the highest-ranking official to resign amid one of these probes, and the post has yet to be permanently filled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Italy PM Faces Uncertain Political Future After Split With Ally] Reference

Army Reserve, Trofimoff became "the highest-ranking U.S. military officer ever charged with espionage," according to the Justice Department indictment.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Coda To The Cold War] Reference

Mr. Eo's place is the highest-ranking restaurant in Zagat's new Seoul guide, though he describes his clientele as the type that doesn't need help from a book.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seoul Food] Reference

Co., where he earned a reputation as a conservative straight-shooter, is one of the highest-ranking Wall Street executives charged for meltdown-related actions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citi Pays for Subprime Feint] Reference

The host of this thank-you banquet was presidential envoy William Perry, the highest-ranking American emissary to visit North Korea since the end of the Korean War, in 1953.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behind The Closed Door, A Deal Is Born] Reference

In fact, Law was already in Rome, where he dined that evening (on green noodles baked with mozzarella) with Bishop James Harvey, the highest-ranking American on the pope's staff.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Cardinal Offense] Reference