Katharine H Dickenson

A life-long Floridian, she was appointed to the Florida Historic Preservation Advisory Council for a seven-year term and served as chairman in 1988. She is the only Floridian to have served as both chairman of the Arts Council and chairman of Historic Preservation Advisory Council (now the Florida Historical Commission). She was appointed by three governors to the Palm Beach County Historic Preservation Board and served as chairman for eight years. From 1991 to 2000, she served as a trustee for the National Trust for Historic Preservation. She graduated from the University of Miami with a master's in education and lives in Boca Raton with her husband, David, an attorney, and three sons.