PERSON: Jo Ann Jenkins

CEO

Jo Ann Jenkins (born February 8, 1958) is the CEO of AARP. She was appointed on September 1, 2014, having previously served as chief operating officer from 2013 to 2014. Between 1994 and 2010, she was a senior adviser, chief of staff, and chief operating officer of the Library of Congress.

Education and early career
A native of Mon Louis Island, Alabama, Jenkins graduated from Theodore High School in Theodore, Alabama, in 1976 and went on to attend Spring Hill College where she majored in Political Science. After graduating from Spring Hill College in 1980, she became a voter outreach worker on Ronald Reagan’s 1980 Presidential Campaign. Following the campaign in 1981 she began working as an executive assistant at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and later moved to the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), where she served as special assistant to Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Dole from 1985 to 1987.[2] In this role Jenkins and Dole led an effort to bring women into leadership positions across the DOT. She spent three years in the private sector as a partner for Quality Management Services from 1987 to 1990. Jenkins then joined the U.S. Department of Agriculture as Director of the department’s Office of Advocacy and Enterprise, a position she held from 1990 to 1993.

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