Barbara Buzzell

Professional Background

As President of The Buzzell Company, Barbara is responsible for the overall agency management and direction. She oversees all marketing and planning, implementation and supervision of agency programs, client contact, new business development, staff supervision and financial operations. She has represented clients in the areas of hospitality, real estate and development, financial/investor relations, publishing, entertainment, avionics, industrial marketing, law, consumer products and services.

After moving to Dallas in 1982, she joined a local public relations firm handling clients on a regional and national basis. She left in 1997 as Executive Vice President. Barbara worked on clients in a variety of professional services industries as well as campaigns in the hospitality, real estate and law arenas.

In 1981, she was selected as Head of Public Relations and Fashion Director for I. Magnin, North Bethesda, Maryland, the first I. Magnin on the East Coast. Barbara was responsible for the East Coast premiere and coordinated all media relations and special events and administered the opening store budget. Prior to I. Magnin, she was the Fashion Coordinator for Bloomingdale's, Tyson's Corner, Virginia, the first Bloomingdale's outside the New York area.

She began her career on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., on the national staff of U.S. Senator J. Glenn Beall, Jr. Barbara then worked at The White House during the re-election campaign of President Gerald Ford.

Barbara attended the University of Maryland in College Park and received a Bachelor's degree in Political Science and Business in 1975.

Community Affairs

Barbara currently serves as a board member for the Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, the President's Council of the North Texas Food Bank and the North Texas Advisory Board of The Nature Conservancy. She is also a member of the prestigious Les Dames D'Escoffier.

Commitments to the community have included serving on a number of civic and charitable boards and committees such as amfAR's Two by Two for AIDS and Art, SPCA of Texas, Friends of Fair Park, AIDS Arms, Inc., Design Industries Foundation for AIDS, USA Film Festival, Pegasus Plaza Opening Committee, Linz Award Selection Committee, the Corporate Advisory Committee for the Dallas Museum of Art, the Dallas Convention and Visitors Bureau's Public Relations Committee, and Share Our Strength/Taste of the Nation executive committee for Dallas events.