Kendall County Times

Introducing, André Davidson. André Davidson has a long and distinguished history of leadership and mentoring in the community. In the spring of 2010, she was elected to the Plano City Council to complete the unexpired term of Mabrie Jackson who resigned to run for state office. In May of 2011, she was re-elected and served on City Council to May 2015. André served as program director of Leadership Plano, a leadership development program of the Plano Chamber of Commerce, for ten years from 1998 to 2005 and 2011 to 2014.  She is a Class 10 program graduate and a past chair of the Leadership Plano Executive Board.

In 2005, she was honored as Plano’s Citizen of the Year. In September 2013 André received the Athena Leadership Award, which recognizes professional excellence, community service and assistance to other women in attainment of professional excellence and leadership skills. She was one of three leadership program executives in the nation in 2012 to receive the prestigious “Preceptor’s Award” presented by the Association of Leadership Programs. The award recognizes program directors that set a higher standard of excellence for leadership programs and their graduates.

André has served on numerous nonprofit boards and is past chair of the Plano ISD Education Foundation, Volunteer Center of Collin County, Plano Youth Leadership, the Medical City Plano Board of Trustees and was the founding director of the Collin Classic Bicycle Ride. She currently serves as chair of Medical City Plano’s Community Advisory Council. She and her husband, Warren, have two adult children and five grandchildren. 

To read her full interview: https://www.planochamber.org/50-leading-women-andre.../

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