Pam Wells, Ed.D. recently retired as the executive director for Region 4 Education Service Center, which is the largest of the twenty education service centers in Texas.
She began her career as a teacher in Spring Branch ISD. She then served as a teacher, campus, and district administrator, and as interim superintendent in Cypress-Fairbanks ISD.
Pam has served as an adjunct professor at Sam Houston State University (SHSU) where she received her M.Ed. and Ed.D., and in 2015 was honored as the SHSU College of Education Distinguished Administrator. During the CFISD 75th Anniversary Jubilee, Pam was recognized as one of 75 honorees. In 2016, the North Harris County Branch of the AAUW selected her as an Outstanding Woman in Education. In 2017, she and her husband, Jim, were honored to become the namesakes of a new elementary school in Cy-Fair ISD, Wells Elementary. Crime Stoppers honored Pam with the Houston Heroes 2022 Safe Schools Award. The Harris County Commissioners Court recently passed a resolution honoring her retirement and 47-years of service to public education and the community.
Pam serves as the 2020–2022 Treasurer for the Urban Superintendents Association of America, on the Houston Education Regional Consortium (HERC) Advisory Board, on the American Heart Association Board of Directors, the Communities in Schools Houston Board of Directors, the Greater Houston Partnership’s Education Advisory Council, Upskill Houston Executive Committee, and the United Way Education Council; was selected as a member of the Center for Houston’s Future 2014 Business/Civic Leadership Forum; is on Houston Baptist University’s Teacher Education Advisory Council; is a member of the University of Texas College of Education Advisory Board, volunteers at Reach Unlimited; serves on the Cy-Hope Board of Directors; and is a Cy-Fair Educational Foundation trustee.