Pat Mitchell
Pat Mitchell was named president and CEO of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in 2000. She is the first woman to serve in that capacity—as the head of the nation’s only noncommercial television broadcasting service. A former network correspondent, independent producer, and Time Warner executive, Mitchell now oversees the operations of a billion-dollar national enterprise comprised of 349 member stations, whose mission is to strengthen the social capital of the communities they serve, and to enrich the lives of all Americans. Mitchell has led groundbreaking collaborations with ABC News Nightline and Fox Studios, and has created a new on-air, strategic alliance with National Public Radio. In 2000, Women in Cable and Telecommunications named her their “Woman of the Year”; in 2003, TheHollywood Reporter listed her among the 100 most powerful female executives in Hollywood (the “Power 100”). Mitchell serves on the Sundance Institute’s board of trustees, on the Women’s Leadership Advisory Council at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, and on the Bank of America’s board of directors. She is one of the founding members of the American chapter of Mikhail Gorbachev’s environmental organization, Green Cross International, and a member of the U.S.-Afghan Women’s Council. A magna cum laude graduate of the University of Georgia with a masters degree in English literature, Mitchell has been awarded an honorary doctorate by Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, and inducted into the Business Hall of Fame at Georgia State University.
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