Melinda Pilkinton of Columbus has been appointed to serve a one-year term as director at large, professional member, on the 2015 board of directors of the Association of Social Work Boards. She fills a vacancy created when the current board member was elected to a different position on the board. Elections took place in November during the ASWB annual meeting, held in Boise, Idaho.
Pilkinton received her Ph.D. in social work from Jackson State University. She is director of the social work program at Mississippi State University, where she has taught for 15 years. A licensed clinical social worker in the state of Mississippi, she served on the Mississippi Board of Examiners for Social Workers and Marriage and Family Therapists from 2006 to July 2014. Pilkinton has been active with ASWB for many years. She served on the 2008-09 Practice Analysis Task Force, was on the Nominating and Regulation and Standards (RAS) committees, and is a 2014 recipient of a grant from the ASWB American Foundation for Research and Consumer Education in Social Work Regulation to study licensure examination pass rates and effective educational preparation factors.
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