Juliet V. García
Juliet V. García, president of the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College, serves on the Ford Foundation Board of Trustees. She is chair of both the board's Proxy Committee and the Economic Opportunity and Assets Committee, and a member of the Audit Committee.
In 1986, Dr. García became president of Texas Southmost College (TSC) and was recognized as the first Mexican-American woman in the nation to lead a college or university. In 1992, she joined the University of Texas System as president of the University of Texas at Brownsville (UTB). She subsequently led the development of a successful and historic partnership between UTB and TSC and now serves concurrently as president of both.
Dr. García received her Ph.D. in communication and linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin and her B.A. and M.A. in speech and English from the University of Houston. Her postdoctoral studies include work at the Institute for Educational Management and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University; the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and the Society of International Business Fellows at the London School of Business.
She is chair of Texas Campus Compact and a trustee of the Robert Wood Johnson foundation. Her other board affiliations include the Public Welfare Foundation and Project GRAD Brownsville.