Jan D. O'Neill Bio

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Jan D. O'Neill
Member

A resident of Midland, Texas, Jan O'Neill has served on many community boards in Texas. She is the Vice President of the George W. Bush Childhood Home, Inc. Board, a position she has held since 2001. She was a member of the Governor's Commission for Women in Austin, from 1994–2000, serving as the co-chair. She served both as chair and co-chair of the Texas Women's Hall of Fame. Since 1992, she has served on the Gladney Fund Board in Forth Worth and the Midland Gladney Development. Gladney is a national non-profit adoption agency offering information and services for adoptive parents, birth mothers and adopted persons.

In Midland, Mrs. O'Neill has shown distinguished community service by serving on the Boards of the Junior League of Midland, Texas Society to Prevent Blindness, Community & Senior Citizen Board, American Cancer Society, Ballet Midland and the Education Committee of the Chamber of Commerce. Her many interests have also drawn her to work for the Meals-on-Wheels at St. Ann's church, The Midland Symphony Guild and The Theater Midland.

She has had a varied career in Texas businesses, including the VIP Employment Services, the Eastland Oil Company, a brokerage firm, First of Texas and First City Nation Bank of Houston.

She served on the Trinity School Board in Midland from 1995–1998 and worked as the school's Director of Development in the 1970s. Trinity School is an independent school that is a part of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas. Her interest in education is furthered by her strong support and advocacy of the institute, All Kinds of Minds, founded by the Harvard-trained pediatrician Dr. Mel Levine, who is director of the University of North Carolina Medical School's Clinical Center for the Study of Development and Learning.

She is a graduate of Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas and received her M.Ed from the College of Notre Dame in Belmont, California.

Mrs. O'Neill is married to Joe O'Neill.

Mrs. O'Neill was appointed to the J.William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board by President Bush on March 6, 2002 and was reappointed for a second term in 2005.