Dr. Pauline Hargrove is active in a number of educational organizations, including: Texas Association of School Administrators, for which she served as president two years and was on the Legislative Committee for four years; Deputy Director of the Equity Center; Texas Association of School Boards' Grassroots Campaign Co-chair; Lamar University Lighthouse Initiative Advisory Committee; Association for School Curriculum Development; Texas Elementary Principals and Supervisors' Association; Texas Association of Secondary School Principals; Orange County Superintendents; and Phi Kappa Delta Honor Fraternity. Some of the civic organizations with which she is or has been affiliated are: Southeast Texas Regional Planning Commission Criminal Justice Board; Greater Orange Area Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors and Executive Board of Directors, Education Committee, Honor Student Luncheon Chair, Student of the Month Chair; Orange Service League; First Presbyterian Church - Elder, Women of the Church, Day School Board Member, Lay Leader, Adult Sunday School

Teacher, Trustee, Greeter, LeMaster Foundation Committee Member; Orange County Economic Development - Workforce and Education Focus Group; Leadership Southeast Texas - Orange County Alumni Chair; and Orange Rotary Club, 2006 - 2007 President. She was an Olympic Torch Bearer in 2002, am Oxford Round Table Representative in 2003, received the 2004 Athena Woman of the Year Award given by the Business and Professional Women's Club and was named a "Yellow Rose of Texas" by Governor Rick Perry. Dr. Hargrove graduated from Lutcher Stark High School. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Elementary Education and the Education of the Physically Handicapped from Lamar College of Technology. Hargrove also has a Master of Education in Supervision and Administration from McNeese State University, a Mid-management Administrator Certificate and a Certificate of Supervision from Stephen F. Austin State University and a Superintendent's Certificate from Lamar State University. She is currently a doctoral student at Lamar University. Dr. Hargrove's thirty-two-year career includes various teaching assignments in grades one through eight at Mauriceville School, Little Cypress Elementary, and Little Cypress Intermediate. Mrs. Hargrove was principal of the Mauriceville Elementary School, Little Cypress Elementary School, and LC-M High School, prior to being named superintendent of LCM CISD in 2000.