11th Annual Conference

LUNCHEON KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Pat Mitchell

In February, 2000 Pat Mitchell left her position as President of CNN Productions and Time Inc. Television to serve as President and CEO of Public Broadcasting System.

At CNN she was responsible for developing and supervising original, non-fiction programming projects for CNN, TBS Superstation and other Turner and Time Warner networks and businesses. She also had responsibility for developing and supervising new television extensions of Time Inc. magazines and brands. Ms. Mitchell was a member of the Turner Broadcasting System Inc. Executive Committee and the CNN Executive Committee.

Under Ms. Mitchell's direction during the past five years, her division produced more than 500 hours of acclaimed documentaries and specials, including "A Century of Women," "Moon Shot," "Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream," "The Coming Plague," and "Dying to Tell the Story," as well as "National Geographic Explorer" and other natural history and environmental programming. Documentaries produced under Mitchell's direction have won more than 100 major awards, including 41 Emmys, seven Peabodys and 35 CableACEs. She was also executive producer of two other groundbreaking documentary series: the Peabody Award-winning, 24-part "Cold War" and the 10-part "Celebrate the Century."

During her television career, Mitchell has worked for all three broadcast networks, as well as for several cable television channels, both in front of and behind the cameras. She was a correspondent for NBC's "Today" program and CBS' "Sunday Morning," and was a producer/reporter for ABC's "Home" show, as well as for the nationally syndicated "Hour Magazine." Ms. Mitchell was the first woman to host her own national talk program, "Woman to Woman," which won the Emmy Award for Best Daytime Talk Program in 1984. She is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Georgia, with bachelor's and master's degrees in English.