Quality Texas Announces The Ann Richards Scholarship
A Commitment To Quality
In 1992, Governor Ann Richards issued an executive order creating the Texas State Agency Quality Committee and implementing total quality management for all state agencies. Also in the early 1990s, a group of Texas business leaders met with Governor Richards to plan the development of a Baldrige-based award and feedback program. In 1994, the first Quality Texas award was given in the garden of the governor’s mansion.
In her honor, in January 2011 the Quality Texas Board of Directors approved the Quality Texas Ann Richards Scholarship.
Ann Richards
Dorothy Ann Willis Richards (September 1, 1933 - September 13, 2006) was an American politician and teacher from Texas. She first held state office as the Texas state treasurer. Considered the first woman elected governor of Texas in her own right, she served in that post from 1991 to 1995. Born during the start of the Depression, in Lakeview, Texas (McLennan County), Ann Richards died in Austin from esophageal cancer at the age of 73.
Scholarship
The Ann Richards Scholarship is open to employees or children of Quality Texas members (current year) and employees or children of Quality Texas applicants (current cycle).
The scholarship is administered by the Panel of Judges of the Quality Texas Foundation. In this administration, two awards of $1,500 will be provided directly to an accredited school in the name of the recipient. Scholarships will be awarded and recipients recognized during the Quality Texas Quest for Excellence Banquet June 27, 2011 at the Windham DFW.
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For more information or to contribute to the scholarship fund, call Quality Texas at 214-565-8550. | 
