SALLY HARRIS has been affiliated with The Salvation Army for many years. She has been a member of the Army's National Advisory Board since 1994, serving three 3-year terms and returning in 2005 after a one year hiatus. She has also been a member of The Salvation Army's Manhattan Advisory Board since 1984. Elected chairman in 1992, she became the first woman and youngest member to hold such a position. She was also a founding member of the Eastern Territory's School for Officer Training.

Mrs. Harris serves as chairman of the Youth Committee of the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship programs in Baltimore, Boston, New Hampshire/Vermont, New York, North Carolina and Pittsburgh, which provide year-long opportunities for more than 130 graduate students from a wide range of medical, public health and law schools. Through community service projects that Fellows design and implement, the Schweitzer Fellows programs seek to assist those whose health needs are not being met by our health care system.

Mrs. Harris facilitated and supervised a pilot program, created by a Schweitzer Education Fellow from Tufts University. She was given the task of developing and implementing a summer science/nature curriculum for The Salvation Army's Camp Wonderland in Sharon, MA. Designed to meet the needs of the Army, the curriculum encompassed the elements of basic scientific inquiry, imagination, self esteem, group participation and success. Mrs. Harris has served on the boards of the Spence School of New York, the Episcopal Nursery School, the Peter Pan Children's Fund and Parent in Action, a substance abuse prevention organization.

Sally Harris has produced, written and acted in a full-length feature film entitled "The End of August." The movie is an adaptation of "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin, a turn of the century feminist novel. It was purchased by the BBC and had its world premiere in London in 1982.

Mrs. Harris graduated from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas with a BFA in Theatre. In 1994, she completed Education for Ministry, a four-year course of study in lay ministry that was developed by the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee. She is married to Fred Harris, a computer executive and has three children: Elena, Lucas and Peter Jacobson.