Senate Confirms Patricia Cahill to CPB Board of Directors

The United States Senate confirmed Patricia Cahill’s nomination to the board of directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). This will be Cahill’s second term on the CPB board.

She served previously from 2009-2014. She was the board chair from 2012 to 2014 and the vice chair from 2011 to 2012. Cahill has worked in public radio for more than 40 years. In 2012, she retired as general manager of KCUR-FM, the public radio station at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Prior to KCUR, she worked as a reporter, news director, and general manager of KMUW-FM at Wichita State University, where she was also an instructor in speech communications and journalism. Cahill has served on the board of directors for NPR and as the chair of its Distribution/Interconnection Committee, the Membership Committee, and the Development Committee. She was also president of Public Radio in Mid America, a public radio membership organization, and vice president of Kansas Public Radio Association.