Ursuline Acadmy of Dallas alumna Jennifer Scripps is a new member of the Southwestern Medical Foundation Board of Trustees.
Since April 2022, Scripps has served as president and CEO of Downtown Dallas, Inc. Prior to then, she served as the director of the City of Dallas Office of Arts & Culture, a role she held starting in 2016.
Jennifer Scripps. Photo courtesy of the Southwestern Medical Foundation.
Scripps worked closely with the Perot Museum of Nature & Science, overseeing construction and business planning, before joining the city.
She is one of six new board members of the Southwestern Medical Foundation, a public health care charitable corporation working toward progress in medicine, particularly at UT Southwestern Medical Center and its related institutions.
Other new board members are Tucker Bridwell, Ken Hersh, Joan Buchanan Hill, Chris Kleinert and Marshall Payne.
The Southwestern Medical Foundation was founded in 1939 by Dr. Edward H. Cary, Karl Hoblitzelle, Hall Shannon and E.R. Brown, who wanted to build a medical center in the southwestern region of the United States. By 1943, the foundation had founded Southwestern Medical College. And in 1949, Cary deeded ownership of the land, buildings, equipment and library to the University of Texas system.
