Susan Packard Orr

Orr is the daughter of David Packard and Lucile Salter Packard.[3] Like both of them, she attended Stanford University, where she graduated with a BA in Economics (1968) and an MBA (1970).[4] After spending time as an economist at the National Institutes of Health, she obtained a Masters in Computer Science from New Mexico Tech.[5] She is married to Franklin Orr, who was Under Secretary of Energy for Science in the Obama administration,[6] and is a Professor Emeritus at Stanford.

Orr joined the Board of Directors of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation at age 21 along with her three siblings,[7] and was appointed Chairman of the board in 1996 after David Packard's death.[8]

Orr also has served on the Board of Trustees of the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford since it was founded in 1991,[9] including serving as vice-chair.[10]

Other nonprofit boards that Orr has served on include the Audubon Society,[11] the Monterey Bay Aquarium,[12] the Packard Humanities Institute,[13] the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health,[14] and Stanford University.[15]

Orr was named the first Distinguished Fellow in Family Philanthropy by the National Center for Family Philanthropy,[16] where she has written about donor legacies and board composition for family foundations.[17]