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SWE HA Board of Trustees

Carolyn F Phillips​

Carolyn F Phillips, CIH (Ret), PE (Ret) CSP (Ret) has been a SWE member for over 50 years. She retired from Shell Oil Co after spending the last 25 years of her career there in a health and safety career and still serves in an occasional consulting capacity. She is currently a Trustee on the SWE National Board of Trustees and served as the Chair for 15 years. She also is currently serving on the SWE HA Board of Trustees. She is a SWE Past National President, Fellow, and Life Member. She has also received SWE’s Distinguished Service Award.

She is an active volunteer at Ten Thousand Villages, the Executive Service Corp of Houston, her church, and Zonta International, where she was recently Vice Chair of an International Convention. In spare time, she loves to work in the garden and “fix things” or play in the sand at her beach house.

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Vivienne McKitrick ​

Vivienne McKitrick is one of SWE-HA’s past presidents. She has a BS in Electrical Engineering and a BA of Zoology from UT Austin. She is a consultant and business-owner with her husband of a small Houston engineering consulting firm, Quixote Enterprises and the mother of three grown children. She is a long-term mentor to young women in engineering and a long-time member of the SWE-HA Board of Trustees.

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Donna Kottwitz ​

Donna Kottwitz is a Senior Life Member of SWE and has been active in a number of areas in the Houston Area Section. She joined SWE in 1972 as a charter member of the Kansas State University Section during her freshman year and was President her senior year. Donna became President of the newly chartered Houston Area Section in 1979 and has been Section Representative and Career Guidance Chair. She organized SWE Business events as part of the 1998 Convention Team. In 1994, she received the Woman of Excellence Award from FHPW. Donna retired in 2017 from Eni Petroleum after working 42 years in the oil & gas industry, last holding the position of Reserves Manager. She has been responsible for reserves studies, economic evaluations, managing property evaluation teams, and corporate financial studies and reporting. She earned her B.S. in chemical engineering at Kansas State University in 1975. In addition to Eni Petroleum, Donna worked as a reservoir engineer for Exxon, Louisiana Land & Exploration and Wintershall Energy. She was also a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers during her career.

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Ann Green Terrell

Ann Green Terrell joined SWE as a collegiate member at the University of Miami in the early 1980’s when the number of women in the engineering college was low and SWE provided the rare opportunity for female students to assemble a network of support and also provide outreach to the community. She worked in industrial engineering for the airline industry, in manufacturing and in transportation-logistics. Most of her career has been in leadership roles with over twenty years at the United Parcel Service corporate offices where her most successful accomplishment was the co-founding of a charitable program set up to match UPS professionals (engineering, marketing, finance, technology, etc) to needs within the local non-profit community. She remain connected to her profession since retirement by volunteering with ABET as a program evaluator to accredit undergraduate and graduate industrial engineering programs in the U.S. and around the world. She believes in the mission of SWE and looks forward to working in any capacity needed to forward that mission.

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Jennifer Bell 

​Jennifer Bell has been an active SWE member since 1998.  Her involvement started with the Houston Area Professional Section.  By 2004, Jennifer had been elected to SWE HA President, SWE Region C's first Nominating Committee Chair, and the University of Houston’s SWE Student Section Professional Advisor.  Since 2011, Jennifer has dedicated her SWE time as a Society Wide Leadership Coach and a member of the SWE HA Nominating Committee. 

Jennifer received her Mechanical Engineering degree from Texas Tech University and entered the oil and gas industry upon graduation. For the first 20 years of her career, she worked in upstream, midstream, and downstream facilities.  She has been involved in a number of facets of offshore and plant engineering including commercial negotiations, proposal management, conceptual engineering, new technology identification, training, and project management. Bell has traveled and worked extensively internationally and lived on short-term assignments in Angola, Canada, South America, Thailand, Singapore, and Europe. Bell has been recognized with numerous awards and has served on a variety of committees.  Upon completing her MBA from Colorado Technical University in 2013, Jennifer has been a part time Drilling Training Specialist at Houston Community College and adjunct faculty at Houston Community College and consults to the education, energy, and residential building industries.  

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