Carolyn B. Dickson

Executive Director, O'Donnell Foundation

Carolyn Dickson is Executive Director of the O’Donnell Foundation in Dallas. The purpose of the foundation is to support quality education, especially in science and engineering. She previously served in Washington as Chief of Staff to former Senator John Tower of Texas.

In 1989, she was appointed a member of the White House Education Policy and Advisory Council. Former President Bush also appointed her to the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, where she served as chairman of the Education Committee. In Texas, she served a six-year term on the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, and as the first chairman of the Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund Board of Texas. In 2003-04 she was appointed by the Governor to the Texas Joint Select Committee on Public School Finance.

Current board memberships include National Center for Educational Accountability, the College of Computing at Georgia Tech and Advanced Placement Strategies, Inc. of Dallas. She and her husband live in Dallas.