Champion Women Profile Series - Regina Schofield

When Regina Schofield, now director of corporate engagement and education outreach at Battelle—a global research and development firm—was an undergraduate at Mississippi College, in Clinton, Miss., she invited former Governor William Winter to address her business fraternity, Delta Sigma Pi. When Winter accepted, the president of the college summoned Regina to his office to ask how she had mustered the courage to cold call such a revered figure. “And I looked at the president of my college and I literally said ‘Like my dad says, we’re all the same—everybody puts their pants on one leg at a time.’”

For the Honorable Regina B. Schofield, a veteran of a string of important jobs in both Bush administrations and the nonprofit world, confidence comes naturally. It was instilled early by her father, a schoolteacher, who worked to help desegregate Mississippi’s public schools. 

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