Margaret Brown

Margaret Brown, is serving as a member of the Orchard Hospital Board of Directors. Margaret is a retired educator, having been a third grade teacher, a reading specialist, and, most recently, an English and reading instructor at Butte College. In 1992 she joined the administration, and she retired in 2003 as Assistant Dean of Instructional and Community Services. While an instructor at the college, she was Vice President and President of the Academic Senate and was active on a number of statewide committees. She was also involved in the family clothing business, Brown & Company, located first in Gridley and then in Oroville. She began her involvement with the hospital as a member of the operations committee in 2006 and became a member of the hospital foundation at that time. She is a member of Focus - Hands Helping Children, active in her church, and is a volunteer at the Feather River Hospital Cancer Center in the WeCARE! peer navigation program through UC Davis for mentoring of newly-diagnosed breast cancer patients. She is also on the Think Pink Team in Chico, which is a clearinghouse for breast cancer activities in Butte County.

Mrs. Brown earned a Bachelor's and Master's degrees in education from The College of William and Mary in Virginia, and a Master's in English from California State University, Chico.