• 2020 Luminary Award Winner•

Elizabeth Gutierrez is a successful and highly respected Senior Principal Quality Engineer in the Engineering & Manufacturing section of the Space Systems division at the Northrop Grumman Corporation.

With 14 years working in the Aerospace & Defense industry in positions ranging from Business Management to Mission Assurance to Manufacturing Engineering, Ms. Gutierrez credits her success to values of hard work and perseverance that she learned from her Mexican immigrant parents, values that she continues to pass along to her own family and those of the many students she has mentored throughout her career.

A past President and Secretary for the California State University of Northridge student chapter of the Society of Women Engineers, Ms. Gutierrez is also involved with community service through her extensive work with Adelante, Northrop Grumman’s Hispanic employee resource group where she has been responsible for the recruitment of engineers to lead STEM workshops for local high school students.

With a challenging engineering role at Northrop Grumman that requires her to interface and collaborate with various government agencies including NASA, DCMA and the Air Force, Ms. Gutierrez still finds time to give back to her community while raising her three young children along with her college sweetheart husband.