Development Professionals Named Senior Directors

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Jamie Banks and Charlotte Taylor

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Two University of Arkansas development professionals within the Division of University Advancement have been promoted. Jamie Banks has been named senior director of development and external relations for the College of Education and Health Professions. She will now supervise the college’s fundraising and communications efforts.

Charlotte Taylor is now the senior director of development for University Initiatives. In addition to supervising the team charged with raising private gift support for several universitywide initiatives, she is assuming the role of staff liaison for the university’s Women’s Giving Circle.

“I am proud to work with accomplished leaders and fundraisers like Jamie and Charlotte,” said Mark Power, assistant vice chancellor for University Development. “As we plan for the next comprehensive fundraising campaign on our campus, their experience and passion for philanthropy will be invaluable.”  

Prior to joining the College of Education and Health Professions’ development team in 2003, Banks worked as a fundraiser for the Mark Pryor U.S. Senate campaign and the Blanche Lincoln U.S. Senate campaign. Her prior experience includes working for the Lincoln Senate campaign, the John Edwards for U.S. Congress campaign and working on the U.S. Senate Armed Services committee as a staff assistant.

Banks earned a bachelor’s degree from Westminster College in Fulton, Mo., and a master’s degree from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She and her husband, Michael, have three children, Olivia, Mary Helen and David.

Taylor started her career at the university in 1997 when she became the planning director for the horticulture department. Before that time, she was the executive director of Alpha Delta Pi International Sorority in Atlanta for nearly 10 years, and she previously worked as the director of development for the Austin Symphony Orchestra in Austin, Texas. She served as the director of development for the Fay Jones School of Architecture for more than 11 years and moved to a centrally focused fundraising position in October 2010.

Taylor holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Arkansas and a master's degree from the University of Vermont. She is married to Tim Hudson (B.A. 1985), and the couple has two sons, Renwick and Richard.