Elizabeth Klimes, president of Specialty Care Products, Eli Lilly and Company in Indianapolis, has been elected to the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Board of Trustees.

Klimes is a member of the company's senior management forum.Previously, she was general manager of Lilly Deutschland GmbH from 1998 to 2001. She joined Lilly in 1982 as a design engineer in process automation and subsequently worked in manufacturing facility and capacity planning before becoming manager of manufacturing strategy development in 1989.

In 1991, she became manager of biochemical manufacturing. She served as plant manager for Indianapolis dry product manufacturing in 1991. In 1995, Klimes accepted a position as director of manufacturing for the endocrine business unit and in 1997 became executive director and chief procurement officer.

Klimes, a native of Greenwood, Ind., earned a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University in 1981. Klimes also received a master of business administration degree from Indiana University.