Pam Creedon started her academic career at The Ohio State University where she taught advertising, public relations and journalism.  She is former director of the Kent State University (Ohio) and University of Iowa Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication.

During her directorships, both Iowa and Kent State programs were fully re-accredited by the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.  She has served on numerous ACEJMC Site Teams evaluating compliance. She was elected President of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication, an educational association composed of some 190 JMC programs at the college and university level.

She served on the executive board of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), the AEJMC Standing Committee on Professional Freedom and Responsibility and chaired the AEJMC Commission on the Status of Women. She also served a member of the Hearst Journalism Awards Committee. 

A member of the editorial boards of Public Relations Review and the Journal of Public Relations Research, she is the editor of three books and author of many chapters and refereed journal articles.  Before entering academe, she was the public relations director at a college and at a Fortune 100 Company. Ms. Creedon is an International Association of Business Communication Accredited Business communicator (ABC). She earned her master's degree in journalism from the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon, and her bachelor's degree in English from Mount Union College, Alliance, Ohio.