Patricia I. Brown-Dixon, Director of Business Support Services

Pat Brown-Dixon is the Director of the Office of Business and Support Services and oversees the Heartland Region's Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization -- a program which has grown and diversified to include congressional liaison duties, disaster coordination, competition advocacy, contracting officer warranting and the regional Equal Employment Office.

Mrs. Brown-Dixon began her career as an inventory management trainee in the Federal Supply Service. After being chosen to participate in the management intern program, she developed and presented a supervisory training package for first-line supervisors. At the end of the training program, Brown-Dixon was assigned to the Public Buildings Service planning staff where she worked with prospectuses and environmental impact statements for new federal construction projects.

After working in the Public Buildings Service, Mrs. Brown-Dixon moved to the Administrative Services Division where she managed the Regional Directives and Forms program, and oversaw maintenance of GSA's emergency relocation site. During this time, she was one of five regional employees nationwide to be chosen for a three-month detail in the administrator's office in Washington, DC, to develop performance indicators for GSA's national management information system. She also prepared testimony for congressional hearings and worked with the task force that organized a new GSA regional office in Philadelphia. After returning to Kansas City, Brown-Dixon was chosen as the Executive Assistant to the Regional Administrator, coordinating activities identified as high priority between the Regional Administrator and his management staff.

In 1997, Mrs. Brown-Dixon was named as one of the 100 Most Influential African Americans in Kansas City. She has served on mayoral task forces, participated in community leadership organizations and won several awards for her work with the business community. She holds a BA in business and education from the Philander Smith College, Little Rock, Ark. and an MBA from the Rockhurst College, Kansas City, Mo.