Brenda Thompson

Brenda Thompson has long been a patron and leader in the arts along with her husband, Larry Thompson. She currently serves on the board of trustees for the Barnes Foundation and on the board of the Clark Atlanta University art galleries. She joined the Georgia Museum of Art's board of advisors in fall 2011. She received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Saint Louis University in 1980, and she was an assistant professor at Morehouse College in the department of psychology before focusing on child and adolescent mental health, first as a clinical psychologist and then as a school psychologist.