Mary L. Good

Who is Mary L. Good?

Mary Lowe Good is an inorganic chemist who does industrial research and has worked in government. She received her BS from the University of Central Arkansas and in 1955 received her PhD in from the University of Arkansas. In 1980 she was appointed to the National Science Board of the National Science Foundation by Jimmy Carter and then in 1986 she was appointed to it again by Ronald Reagan. In 1976 she was initiated into the Beta Phi Chapter of Alpha Chi Sigma at the South Dakota School of Mines.

Former President Bush appointed her to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Later Dr. Good in 1993 served four years as the Under Secretary for Technology for the Technology Administration in the Department of Commerce, under the Clinton Administration.

She was the 1987 President of the American Chemical Society.

She has also been a Donaghey University Professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and was the founding Dean of the George W. Donaghey College of Engineering and Information Technology, retiring July 1, 2011.

In 2010, Good received $90,000 in remuneration as a director of Acxiom Corporation.