Officials Current Position: Previous Co-Chair Shirley Ann Jackson became co-chair of the President s Intelligence Advisory Board on August 29, 2014. The mission of the board, which was established in 1956 by President Dwight Eisenhower, is to keep the president apprised of the quality and adequacy of U.S. foreign intelligence efforts, including intelligence collection, estimates and analysis. Jackson was born on August 5, 1946, in Washington, D.C. Her parents, George Hiter Jackson and Beatrice Cosby Jackson, were strong supporters of their daughter’s education, especially in the area of science. Her fascination with the subject began during her elementary school years, when she would study bees in her backyard, observing their response to environmental changes. While Jackson’s father assisted her with science class school projects, her mother would read her the biography of African-American scientist and mathematician Benjamin Banneker. Insp