Distinguished Service Award Recipients
Carol
Toussaint (B.A. 1951) presently serves as the Interim Executive Director
of the Alliant Energy Foundation and filled a similar position in
1999 for the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. She
has a long and distinguished record of voluntary, business and public
service. She has held leadership positions on numerous governmental
and non-governmental boards and commissions, served in public office,
directed a variety of public policy studies and counseled nonprofit
organizations on public relations, governance, fund development and
strategic planning. Toussaint is widely recognized as a role model
for women. She was the first woman appointed to head a cabinet-level
agency in Wisconsin government, serving as Secretary of the Department
of Local Affairs and Development in 1977-78.
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