Member – GHF Board of Directors Committee
Member – GHF Grants Committee
Linda Frasher Meigs has served the Georgetown community as a child, mental health, and public school advocate for over thirty years. Ms. Meigs currently serves on the steering team for Resilient WILCO, an initiative that seeks to educate the citizenry of Williamson County about the effect adverse childhood experiences & toxic stress have on child and community health outcomes. Linda also serves as co-chair of the Williamson County Child and Youth Behavioral Health Task Force and for the past nine years has been instrumental in planning the Annual Williamson County Mental Health in Schools Conference that brings together all Williamson County school districts for two days of targeted professional development.
Linda is a long serving member of The Georgetown Project Community Collaborative, having served as editor-in-chief for their 2007 Snapshot of Children and Youth. She is a longtime member and past chair of the Georgetown ISD School Health Advisory Council, as well as past president of the Texas Association of Student Assistance Professionals. Linda currently serves as an Advisory Board member for the UCLA Center for Mental Health in Schools and is a regular contributor to county and state level discussions on mental health in schools.
Ms. Meigs served on the Georgetown ISD Safe School/Health Students (SS/HS) grant writing team, was employed by GISD as a Student Support Services Coordinator funded by the SS/HS initiative, and subsequently served as district-wide SAIL Coordinator (Student Assistance & Intervention Liaison). Under her leadership, GISD SAIL earned the 2003 National Student Assistance Association “Program of Excellence” Award.
For ten years Ms. Meigs facilitated a GISD educational support group for parents of children with attention deficits and related issues and has been a consistent champion for students who require extra support to be successful in the classroom. For those and other efforts she received the 1999 GISD Partners-in-Education “District Volunteer of the Year” award.
Linda has resided in the City of Georgetown since 1985. She has been married to husband, Danny, for over 40 years. They have one daughter, Jennifer, who resides in Austin.