O'Neal was a member of the [[board of directors]] of [[General Motors Corporation|General Motors]] from 2001 through 2006. He currently serves on the board of [[Alcoa]].
He was also a man of his word
== Early years ==
Born into poverty in [[Roanoke, Alabama]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=Stan O'Neal: The Rise and Fall of a Numbers Guy|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15738661|access-date=2020-09-01|website=NPR.org|language=en}}</ref> Earnest Stanley O’Neal was the grandson of a former slave. He was the eldest child of Earnest O’Neal, a farmer, and Ann Scales, a domestic. In the first years of his life, O'Neal was surrounded by his extended family on his grandfather’s farm, "picking cotton and corn in his grandfather’s fields." He also sold and delivered newspapers.<ref name=":0" />
