Lynn Jones Eaton Joins Leadership Texas Class of 2008
Dr. Lynn Jones Eaton
On February 18 at the Four Seasons Hotel, Lynn Jones Eaton, Associate Director for Faculty and Graduate Student Instructional Development, will participate in the first of five three-day working sessions of the Leadership Texas Class of 2008. As one of three accomplished women leaders selected from UT Austin, Eaton will work with cohorts from throughout Texas for goal-setting, mentoring, and investigating major issues affecting Texans in areas including technology, education, business, government, and the environment. Eaton joins Judy Ashcroft, Dean of Continuing and Innovative Education and an alumna of the Class of 2004, as a DIIA leader selected for the prestigious program.
The Austin meeting will kick off a year-long study and research series structured around four additional sessions in Brownsville, Houston, Amarillo, and Dallas, which will serve as backdrops for presentations and discussions with local and state experts in venues including universities, correctional facilities, corporate headquarters, and South Texas colonias.
Leadership Texas is an initiative of the Foundation for Women’s Resources, a private, nonprofit educational organization devoted to advancing the personal, economic, and professional status of women. Since its first class in 1983, Leadership Texas has been identifying women recognized as leaders to provide them with essential information, awareness, skills, and networks to seize greater leadership opportunities. Besides Leadership Texas, the foundation supports three other initiatives to empower women leaders: the Leadership Texas Alumnae Association with its vast support network, the Power Pipeline for emerging women leaders under 35, and the Women’s Museum in Dallas, the first comprehensive women’s history museum, in association with the Smithsonian institute.
Eaton is grateful and excited about her selection for this year’s class: “I’m honored to be nominated by the university and to be accepted by the program. I’m looking forward to meeting leaders and inspirational speakers to study critical issues affecting Texans, now and into the future.”