Carol A. Jackson

Carol, a board member since 2022, a former City of Charleston Council member, and a retired executive with 40 years of experience in nonprofit management, served as the Council’s human resources chair from 2018 to 2021 and as the City of Charleston Mayor Pro Tempore in 2021.

She was also the founder and only female president of the public/private partnership nonprofit that was the precursor to the City of Falls Church VA Economic Development Commission, and the originator and first president of her Falls Church community first overnight winter shelter to prevent hypothermia among the homeless population. She has served on a host of boards and committees, including a term as vice chair of the Charleston Commission on Women, and graduated cum laude from the College of William and Mary with a bachelor’s degree.