Pat Mitchell

President and Chief Executive Officer. Pat Mitchell joined the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in March 2000 as its fifth president and chief executive officer. She is the first woman and first producer to serve as CEO of PBS. Before joining PBS, Ms. Mitchell was president of CNN Productions and Time Inc. Television. Ms. Mitchell has worked for three major broadcast networks, as well as cable, serving as a news reporter, anchor, talk show host, producer and executive. Long active in community and nonprofit organizations, Ms. Mitchell serves on the advisory board of Radcliffe College's Schlesinger Library on the History of Women and the Women's Leadership Advisory Council of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She also sits on the board of trustees of the Sundance Institute and is one of the founding members of Global Green, USA, the American chapter of Mikhail Gorbachev's international environmental organization, Green Cross.