
Director
She/Her
Hope Toole Schwalls, F.SWE, is a fellow and life member of the Society of Women Engineers. She has been an active member for nearly three decades, first as a collegiate member at Bucknell University while earning a B.S. in mechanical engineering and later as a professional member in the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, and Fort Worth, Texas, professional sections.
Prior to being elected to the FY25-FY26 SWE Board of Directors, Toole Schwalls served SWE in multiple roles at the section, region, and Society levels, including as Society Ethics Committee chair, deputy speaker of the senate, senator, region governor, Society nominating committee member, section president, and section representative on the council of representatives for two professional sections.
In her professional life, Toole Schwalls is an aeronautical engineer principal at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics in Fort Worth, serving as the digital transformation lead for airframe design.
In addition to SWE, she participates in various endeavors in STEM and non-STEM fields. She is a past president of the Bucknell Club of Dallas and a member of multiple Lockheed Martin employee groups. She is a member of the National Society of Black Engineers and the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers. She spent many years as a volunteer group facilitator for biweekly grief support groups for children and preteens who have experienced loss of parents. She is also a member of the League of Women Voters and the NAACP.
Email: director.schwalls@swe.org