Herron Mitchell is the Chief Operations Officer for Foremost Family Health Centers in Fair Park, Dallas. At this community-established federally qualified health center (FQHC), Herron currently has direct executive responsibility for outreach, patient access, and revenue cycle management.

Prior to this position, Herron held various roles at Parkland Health, including Director of Operational Excellence and Regional Director of Community Oriented Primary Care. Herron has a passion for population health, preventative care, community outreach, and process efficiency. This passion for process efficiency was instilled early in Herron’s career within the assembly plants of General Motors, where Herron gained an intimate knowledge of Lean and Six Sigma methodologies, which are still utilized in Herron’s healthcare career today.

In addition to Herron’s executive role, Herron is also a lecturer at the University of Virginia, teaching management theory to undergraduate and graduate students. Herron has had the privilege of working at the Baldridge award-winning hospital, Mosaic (formerly Heartland Health), during the initial years of the Affordable Care Act. Herron also served as the Parkland Health operational lead for establishing two Community Based Testing Sites in collaboration with local, state, and federal agencies during the COVID-19 pandemic, later assisting with the creation of multiple walk-up testing sites.

Herron has been married for 25 years to an executive in the food/beverage industry at a Fortune 500 company, and they have three adult children whose focuses are Marketing, Law, and Engineering. Herron seeks to bring all transferrable skills to bear on improving the health of the entire community with services that are safe, equitable, efficient, effective, patient-centered, and timely.