Pew Charitable Trusts. President's Correspondence and Administrative files.

In 1994, Rebecca W. Rimel became President and Chief Executive Officer of The Pew Charitable Trusts. Rimel joined the Trusts' staff as a manager for health programs in 1983. She became vice president for three grantmaking programs in 1985 and three years later was named the Trusts' executive director. A native of Charlottesville, Virginia, Ms. Rimel came to the Trusts following a lengthy and successful career as a nurse practitioner and instructor in the Department of Neurosurgery of the University of Virginia Medical Center. During her tenure at the University of Virginia Medical Center she published a number of articles, abstracts, and contributed book chapters relating to head injuries.

Rimel holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Virginia School of Nursing and a Master of Business Administration degree from James Madison University.

She was awarded a Kellogg National Fellowship in 1982 for research and in 1988, she received the prestigious Distinguished Nursing Alumni Award from her alma mater, the University of Virginia.

Rimel serves on the boards of The Glenmede Trust Company, which manages the Trusts' assets, Alex Brown, Inc., Flag Investors Funds, the Council on Foundations, and the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation (Monticello).

From the description of Records, 1979-1999. (Hagley Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122648633