Gov. Charlie Crist has appointed Angela H. Rouson, of St. Petersburg, to the FAMU Board of Trustees for a term beginning September 29, 2010, and ending January 6, 2011. She succeeds Belinda Shannon.Rouson, 43, is the marketing coordinator for Bayfront Medical Center and wife of State. Rep. Darryl Rouson. They have five children.
Rouson graduated from Hampton University and went on to earn her master of business administration from FAMU. She briefly interrupted her MBA studies to help care for her mother, who had contracted breast cancer. Her mother's death from the disease made her work even harder to complete the degree.
"It was really important to me to finish my master's,'' she told the St. Petersburg Times. Thinking of her mother, she said she understood that "the worse tragedy was not to finish, because I knew that would have been important to her.''