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Jo Luck, who became president and CEO of Heifer International in 1992, has a distinguished record of public service. In 1979, she became then-Gov. Bill Clinton’s first cabinet appointee when he named her executive director of the Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism. She served in that post for more than a decade.
Jo Luck achieved another first in 1982-83, when she was chosen as the first woman president of the Hendrix College Alumni Association. She also served as the first executive director of Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, an organization modeled after the Children’s Defense Fund in Washington, DC. She attended the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and served on the executive committee of the Alumni Advisory Board. In 1999, she attended Harvard Business School’s Executive Education Session on Governing for Nonprofit Excellence. | 