Lori Wesley is the Uptown Midland Business and Professional Women (BPW) 2023 Woman of Achievement and will be celebrated with a BPW dinner in her honor at 6:00 p.m. Monday, Oct. 16, at the Petroleum Club. She is the Executive Director of the Museum of the Southwest.
A native of Amarillo, Wesley is a graduate of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center with a BS degree in Clinical Laboratory Science. Her first job was as a Clinical Laboratory Scientist at Medical Center Hospital in Odessa. From there, she went on to become one of the first women in Texas to become a registered Communications Distribution Designer providing layer one computer cabling design. She has also sold pipe and wire in electrical distribution corporations, sold preventative maintenance contracts to power plants and was a banker for 15 years before becoming the Executive Director of the Museum of the Southwest.
Wesley’s work as a volunteer with non-profits has been extensive. She has served on the Board of Trustees for Midland Health, is a Generations Graduate, is a past president and board member of the Aphasia Center and is an on going volunteer and past president of the board of Senior Life Midland. She was previously honored as 2020 Woman of the Year by United Way of Midland.
Lori is married to Dale Wesley and together they have five children.
