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Board of Trustees - Thomas R. Brown Foundations
The Board of Trustees for the Thomas R. Brown Foundations is composed of family, long time associates of Mr. Brown, and appointees from the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona (www.cfsoaz.org). The board members have diverse backgrounds in education, business, economics, and technology.
The Thomas R. Brown Foundations consist of the Thomas R. Brown Foundation, a private operating foundation and the Thomas R. Brown Family Foundation, a supporting organization of the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona. The two entities are legally separate, but are governed by the same trustees, and programs of both foundations are coordinated where appropiate.
(Photo - bottom row: Sarah Smallhouse, Mary Brown, top row: Gerald Swanson, John Carter, Michael Hard, and Jack B. Jewett - left to right).
Mary B. Brown
Brown received her bachelor’s degree in Agricultural and Managerial Economics from the University of California, Davis and masters degree from Arizona State University’s Executive MBA Program. Mary’s professional experience includes 15 years in commercial lending with various banks in Tucson, Yuma, and Phoenix. She presently serves on the boards of the Brown Foundations, the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, and the Arizona Council for Economic Education.
John Carter
After graduating from Purdue and joining IBM, Carter got an MBA from the Wharton School, then rejoined IBM, and later managed the start of an IBM facility in Tucson. Since then he has served as CEO of Qualtronics Manufacturing, Inc. and later he joined Burr-Brown Corporation, and ultimately served as its CFO. Now retired, he is a director of Unisource Energy, of Tucson Electric Power, and of Critical-Path Institute, and is a member of the Tucson Airport Authority and UA College of Science Dean's Board of Advisors.
Michael Hard
After graduating from Yale University in 1959 Hard married a Tucson native, and then served in the US Navy as a LTJG before joining Valley National Bank (now Chase) in Arizona. Hard held a number of different positions in the bank, including: regional manager in charge of all branches in the state outside of Phoenix and Tucson; assistant to the Chairman; and, at the end of his 39-year career, as senior executive for the bank in Tucson and southern Arizona. Mr. Hard is now retired, but still maintains extensive community involvement.
Jack B. Jewett
Jack Jewett is President and CEO of the Flinn Foundation in Phoenix. He earned a BA degree and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Arizona. He serves on the University of Arizona Foundation Board. He is past president of the Arizona Board of Regents. He was elected and continues to serve on the national Board of Directors of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB). He is AGB’s Treasurer and serves on its Executive Committee. The Jewett family owned Territorial Publishers, Inc., where Jewett served as President. He served on the Governor's P-20 Council; the Arizona's Bioscience Roadmap Steering Committee, and the First Things First Board. Jewett was a state representative in the Arizona Legislature and named a top legislator for overall effectiveness in three consecutive Arizona Republic newspaper surveys.
Sarah Brown Smallhouse
Ms. Smallhouse has MBA in Entrepreneurship from the University of Arizona and a BA in Economics from the University of Washington. She is president of the Thomas R. Brown Foundations and serves on the Board of the University of Arizona Foundation, Advisory Boards of the University of Arizona’s Colleges of Engineering and Science, and the Economics Department at the Eller College of Business. She also serves on several other boards in the community including Tucson Regional Economic Opportunities, the Critical Path Institute, the Governor’s CANAMEX Task force and STEM Advisory Council. Sarah is active in the Southern Arizona Leadership Council and the Arizona Town Hall.
Gerry Swanson
After earning his PhD in Economics from the University of Illinois, Swanson went on to be nationally and internationally recognized as an expert in the teaching of economics. He has taught numerous specialized workshops in the United States and abroad, and is the recipient of numerous teaching awards. He is past executive director of the Arizona Council on Economic Education and past president of the Academy of Economic Education. Swanson is known for his research and analysis on hyperinflation in South America and Europe. He is the author of numerous essays on economic issues, as well as of scripts for the National Public Television series The Economic Exchange, and is author of the books Bankruptcy 1995 and America the Broke. He currently holds the Thomas R. Brown Chair of Economic Education at the University of Arizona.
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