Dr. Jenny Lind Porter Scott
Arts & Culture

Founder of The Texas Poets’ Corner — The Jenny Lind Porter Collections in the Cornette Library at West Texas A&M; established a Creative Writing program at Huston-Tillotson University; named a Piper Professor (top ten outstanding college professions of Texas) by the Piper Foundation in 1976; appointed Poet Laureate of Texas in 1964;
Nominated by: Austin Branch