July 2004

Jackson elected to IABC executive board

Pat Jackson has been elected to the executive board of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) in Los Angeles, California. IABC is an organization of more than 13,000 business communicators worldwide.

Jackson, director of Continuing Education and Special Events at the USC School of Journalism and Mass Communications, will serve as director of IABC’s District 2, which includes South Carolina, Arkansas, Mississippi, Birmingham, Jacksonville, Tampa/St. Petersburg, Memphis, Nashville, Central Florida, Atlanta, New Orleans, Charlotte and the North Carolina Triangle.

Jackson, who is a past president of the South Carolina IABC chapter, has organized and conducted media training for thousands of mid-career professionals during the past 15 years. As communications training consultant and meeting planner, she has conducted hundreds of workshops for government and business clients from all over the world.

She was awarded the 2003 Southern Interscholastic Press Association’s Distinguished Service award for her contributions to the state, regional and and national scholastic press associations.

A native of Winston-Salem, N.C., she is married to Bill Jackson. They live in Columbia and have two children and two grandchildren.