Dorothy Mitchell

Dorothy Mitchell, a resident of Worcester, has served on the VSAC board since 2001 and chairs its Governance Committee. Before that, she served on the VSAC Public Affairs Advisory Group. She has served on and chaired the boards of the Doty Memorial School in Worcester, the Washington Central Supervisory Union, Woodbury College, and the Association of Vermont Independent Colleges. She is a former trustee and president of the Vermont Historical Society and co-chair of its multi-million-dollar capital campaign, as well as serving as a commissioner for the Vermont Statehood Bicentennial. She was a consultant to the founding board and advisory trustee for the Decorative Arts Center of Ohio. She currently serves as a director of the Community National Bank, headquartered in Derby, and as a trustee of the American College of Greece in Athens. She was recently appointed by Gov. James Douglas to the University of Vermont–Vermont State Colleges Task Force, which is charged with determining whether academic and/or administrative efficiencies could be gained through changes to Vermont’s system of public higher education. She attended Mills College and the graduate seminar in management at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.