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 master's degree 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]