Dixie Garr

Dixie Tyran Garr (born 1956) is an American computer engineer who served as Vice President at Cisco Systems and Head of Software Engineering at Texas Instruments.

Early life and education Garr was born in Dubach, Louisiana. She was the youngest of her eight brothers and sisters, and graduated top of her class. During her college degree she interned at General Motors. She was a graduate student at University of California, Los Angeles, where she worked as a Hughes Aircraft Company Fellow. In 1997 Garr was named the "Black Engineer of the Year in Industry" by the council of engineering deans at historically black colleges and universities. At Cisco Garr led teams that looked after customer satisfaction and corporate quality.