Friday, October 17, 2008

Know Your Florida School For Deaf and Blind Board of Trustees Chair, MARY JANE DILLON


Board of Trustees
Members

MS. MARY JANE DILLON
Chair, Board of Trustees
St. Augustine (St. Johns County)

Ms. Dillon is Assistant to the President at Flagler College and also serves as the College's Director of External Programs and Special Projects. Among her responsibilities outside of the President's Office are oversight of the College's upper-division program in Tallahassee and of the College's baccalaureate degree program in Public Administration. She is also Secretary to the College's Board of Trustees. She received a B.A. from Smith College and earned the M.A. in counseling from the University of North Florida. Ms. Dillon completed 16 years of employment at FSDB, first as a guidance counselor in the Blind Department and later as FSDB Public Information Director. Her community activities include: Secretary, Foundation for the Schools for the Deaf and the Blind, Inc.; Member, Board of Directors, Historic St. Augustine Research Institute; and Member, Board of Directors, Communities in Schools of St. Johns County. She was honored in 2005 as a "Woman Of Influence" in the greater First Coast area by the Jacksonville Business Journal. She was appointed to the Board by the Governor to fill another member's unexpired term in January, 2001 and then appointed for a full term shortly after. She was re-appointed by the Governor for a term beginning April 17, 2007 and ending November 20, 2009

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