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Pamela L. Carter

Retired President of Cummins Distribution Inc. and Former Attorney General, State of Indiana

National Board of Directors

Teach For America National Board Member Pamela Carter

Ms. Pamela Lynn Carter served as President of Distribution Business Unit at Cummins, Inc. from 2007 until her retirement in May 2015. She previously served as President – Cummins Filtration, then as Vice President and General Manager of Europe, Middle East and Africa business and operations for Cummins, Inc. Ms. Carter served as Vice President and General Counsel of Cummins Inc. from 1997 to 1999.

Prior to joining Cummins, she had a distinguished legal and political career, including Attorney General for the State of Indiana from 1993 to 1997. She was the first African-American woman elected to the office of Attorney General in any state. She also served as Parliamentarian of the Indiana House of Representatives, Deputy Chief-of-Staff to Governor Evan Bayh, Executive Assistant for Health Policy and Human Services and Security Enforcement Attorney for the Office of the Secretary of State.

Ms. Carter has served on the Boards of Directors of Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. since 2017, Hewlett Packard Enterprise since 2015, CSX Corp., since 2010, and Enbridge Inc. following the merger of Spectra Energy Corp. and Enbridge in February 2017; she had served on Spectra's Board since 2007. She is on the Board of Trustees at Clark Atlanta University, and has served as a member of the Indiana University Law School Board of Visitors, the Columbus Education Coalition Board, and the Sub-Saharan Africa Advisory Council at Export-Import Bank of the United States.

She was awarded a fellowship to the Senior Executives Program of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Ms. Carter earned her Bachelor’s degree from the University of Detroit, a Master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Michigan and her law degree from Indiana University.

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