LINDA PAVLIK
Public Affairs Consultant

Linda Pavlik has amassed more than 30 years as a communications specialist, specializing in communications planning, marketing, public relations and promotion in public/private cooperative ventures.  Pavlik has served the past 23 years as president of Pavlik and Associates, a full-service communications company with offices in Austin and Fort Worth, TX.  Pavlik established Pavlik and Associates, on February 1, 1983. 

She assists Harding Company in communicating with the media, municipalities, regulatory agencies and the public in general.

Prior to forming her own company, Pavlik was vice president/general manager of another Texas-based public relations/advertising company.  She established the first Fort Worth/Tarrant County news bureau for the Dallas Times Herald with the responsibility for news gathering for round-the-clock cycles of the major regional daily.

Pavlik's other newspaper experience includes five years at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram where she was a political writer and investigative reporter.  Star-Telegram editors nominated her for the Pulitzer Prize two consecutive years, and she won numerous state and national awards for investigative reporting and public service in journalism.  She was also owner/publisher of a community newspaper for three years.

Active in numerous civic and professional activities, she was named Outstanding Woman in the Workplace by Fort Worth’s Commission on the Status of Women in 1996 and one of Tarrant County’s Most Influential Businesswomen by The Business Press in 1997 and 1998.