Shackelford's career as a local elected official began in 1978 as a member of the Board of Directors for the city of Little Rock, Arkansas.
Shackelford is a member of the Little Rock Airport Commission, the Southern Regional Council in Atlanta, Georgia, the Board of Directors of Philander Smith College and P.A.R.K. She also serves on the corporate boards of Chapman Funds, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland and the Medicis Pharmaceutical Corporation, Phoenix, Arizona.
Shackelford is a proud mother of three adult children and a doting grandmother of six.
SHACKELFORD: Well, I think, Ed, Governor Dean is going out and speaking and touching and being in the presence of African-Americans across this country, and he's doing a lot of it in states in the South.
SHACKELFORD: Well, I think if you take a look at the record--now you take a look at the number of elected officials who are African-American, the majority of them, overwhelming majority, by the way, are African-American.
SHACKELFORD: I'm satisfied with the fact that we are putting much more emphasis on grassroots strategies and making certain folks from the ground up are truly involved and not during the election cycle.
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