Yankees assistant general manager Jean Afterman

After Thursday’s International Woman’s Day, I decided to see if there were any notable women in the Yankees organization. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that Brian Cashman’s right-hand man is a woman.

Jean Afterman joined the Yankees in December of 2001 as the second female assistant to the general manager, succeeding the first, Kim Ng. Ng left for the same position with the Los Angeles Dodgers organization.

Afterman, a native of San Francisco, Calif., is an attorney by trade and actress by heart. It turns out she landed in Major League baseball by accident.

Following graduation in 1979 from the University of Cal-Berkeley with a degree in art history, Afterman became assistant to the head…