In 2011, President Barack Obama appointed Cynthia Butler-McIntyre to the board of trustees of the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation. She graduated from Dillard University in 1976 with a B.A. in early childhood education. She is the director of human resources in the Jefferson Parish Public School System in Louisiana and the national president of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., a position she has held at the public service organization since 2008. She is a national board member of the National Council of Negro Women, a past national board member of the National Alliance of Black School Educators, and the secretary of the Louisiana State Association of School Personnel Administrators.
She was initiated into the Sorority through the Beta Gamma Chapter of Dillard University in 1973 and is currently a member of the New Orleans Alumnae Chapter, she has served the Sorority with distinction at the local, state, regional and national levels which has earned her the respect and admiration of the membership. Butler-McIntyre earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in early childhood education at Dillard University. She earned a Master of Education degree in curriculum and instruction/educational administration at the University of New Orleans and is the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate of divinity degree from Christian Bible College of Louisiana.
