Jacqueline Smith, J.D., District 1

District 1
Date first elected: 2020
Years of service: 2021–present
Current term expires: December 31, 2024

Jacqueline V. Smith, J.D. has designed and launched university-wide initiatives at Arizona State University (ASU) since 2009. She is a Senior Vice President at the ASU Foundation for a New American University, having most recently served at ASU as Vice President of ASU Foundation and Associate Vice President and Executive Director of University Initiatives. She co-authored a chapter of the textbook, New Models for Lifelong Learning in the Digital Economy, which was published in April 2020. She has also taught: 1) Professor of Practice in ASU's Maray Lou Fulton teachers College where she focused on university design and higher education and the law as well as, 2) civic leadership and cross sector collaboration.

Undergraduate coursework (while in high school and while enrolled at Georgetown), Brookdale Community College, New Jersey

Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics and economics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC

Juris Doctor, Georgetown Law, Washington, DC

Senior Vice President of ASU Foundation for a New American University, 2023–present

Vice President of ASU Foundation, 2019–2023

Professor of Practice, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, 2019–2023

Associate Vice President of Arizona State University, 2017–2019

Executive Director of University Initiatives and Advisor to the President for Social Embeddedness of Arizona State University, 2012–2019

Assistant Vice President of Arizona State University, 2015–2017

Interim Executive Director of the Office of University Initiatives of Arizona State University, 2012

Director of Social Embeddedness of Arizona State University, 2010–2012

University Innovation Fellow of Arizona State University, 2009–2010

Jacqueline has served as a mentor, advisor and board member nationally and locally with the organizations listed below:

Maricopa County Community Colleges District Policy Committee, 2021

Governing Board, Maricopa Community Colleges, 2021–present

National Advisor, The Aspen Postsecondary Success for Parents Initiative

Mentor, ASU Commission on the Status of Women Mentoring Program

Committee Member, Tempe Youth Leadership

Mentor, Barack Obama Scholars Program

Mentor, Women in Public Service Project

Board Member, Commitment to Schools in Tempe and Kyrene

Board member, See More Impact Labs, 2021–present