Eunice Mosley Dudley

Entrepreneur and hair care company founder Eunice Mosley Dudley was born on February 11, 1943 in Selma, Alabama to Andrew Monroe Mosley, Sr. and Eva Murdock Mosley. She attended Talladega College in Talladega, Alabama.

While enrolled at Talladega College, Dudley spent her summers working as a door-to-door sales representative for the Fuller Products Company in Brooklyn, New York. In 1961, she married Joe Louis Dudley and began working at Fuller Products in 1962. In 1967, they moved to Greensboro, North Carolina, to establish a Fuller Products distributorship and in 1969, they launched both Dudley Products, Inc. and the DudleyQ brand. Dudley also led the design and construction of the company’s manufacturing and office facilities in Kernersville, North Carolina. In 1989, she helped launch the Dudley Cosmetology University and later became executive director of the Dudley Beauty School System.

Dudley served on the boards of the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro, the Direct Selling Education Foundation, Bennett College, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Providence Baptist Church, and the Greater Greensboro/Reidsville Club of the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, Inc., where she served as the financial secretary. She also was a contributor to the United Negro College Fund.

Over the course of her career, Dudley received many awards and honors. She was recognized with the Athena Award from the Greensboro Area Chamber of Commerce and the Crystal Award from the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, Inc. She also received the ASHRAE Technology Award and the Energy Efficient Building Award from Energy User News. In 1991, Bennett College awarded her an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree. She was named Kernersville First Citizen of the Year in 1993 and received the Legacy of Leadership Award from the National African American Women’s Leadership Institute in 2008. In 2013, Dudley was inducted into the Carolina Entrepreneur Hall of Fame at the McColl School of Business at Queen’s College in Charlotte, North Carolina. She received the Ollie Chin Porter Award in 2014 and the Long Leaf Pine Award from the State of North Carolina that same year.

Dudley resides in Kernersville, North Carolina. She has three children, Joe, Ursula, and Genea.

Eunice Mosley Dudley was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on April 21, 2023.