Rosemary Perlmeter

Clinical Associate Professor

3101 University Blvd, Ste.306,
Dallas, 75205
Box 750114
214-768-1026
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Rosemary Perlmeter has spent the last sixteen years working on public education initiatives. This work began in 1996 when she joined with the former mayor of Irving and community leaders to found, open, and operate Uplift Education, one of Texas’ first and most successful charter school operators. A few years into this project, Rosemary left her position as an executive with Zale Corporation to become the Director of North Hills Preparatory. During her fifteen years at Zale, she served as Vice President of Real Estate and Real Estate Counsel.

Rosemary became Uplift Education’s first Director of Organizational Advancement. She then went on to see the addition of Uplift's first urban campus, Peak Preparatory, and transitioned into her role as the organization’s first Executive Director, a position she held until November 2009.

In the spring of 2012, Rosemary transitioned off of the Uplift Executive team to focus her efforts on the Teaching Trust, an organization she co-founded that prepares educators to lead the change needed for the academic success and equity of all students. In the summer of 2012, she joined SMU’s Department of Education Policy & Leadership faculty, where she teaches and coaches aspiring school leaders in the Urban Specialization Master's Program.

Rosemary’s current memberships and affiliations include serving as a member of the Principal Advisory Committee of the TEA, a Member of the Advisory Board for Middle School Matters, and as a Facilities and Governance Committee member of Uplift Education. She previously served as a member of the Education Task Force for West Dallas, the Coalition for Effective Charters, the Texas Charter School Association committees on Charter Quality and Charter Advocacy, the founding Board of Las Colinas Medical Center, and as a Director and officer of the Las Colinas Association. She recently received the Innovation in Nonprofit Leadership Award from the Center for Nonprofit Management.

Rosemary received a Bachelor of Arts in English and a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from Southern Methodist University.