Pamela Rouse Wright

In January 2023, Wright created the Lena Ferguson Scholarship for students at the University of the District of Columbia, named in honor of Lena Santos Ferguson, a black woman who was denied membership to local chapters of the organization in 1980 due to racist policies and was later accepted as a member-at-large at the national level in 1983.

Wright commissioned a commemorative plaque honoring Ferguson to be placed in the memorial garden at DAR Constitution Hall.

[2] Wright's great-grandfather, Carlo Bucci, immigrated to the United States in the 1870s from the Campobasso Province in Italy and anglicized his name to Charles Walter Smith.

[5][6] As a jewelry designer, her clients have included First Ladies of Texas and of the United States, as well as other wives of prominent American politicians.

[4] Wright transitioned the Daughters of the American Revolution Insignia Store from an outside commercial vendor to an in-house operation.

[11] In March 2023, Wright unveiled a new plaque at The Old Burial Ground in Sturbridge, Massachusetts that honors sixty-four Revolutionary War patriots who are buried there.

[12] In April 2023, in her capacity as President General, Wright presented state awards to students who partook in a historical essay contest hosted by the Colonel David Hall Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Delaware.

[13] Under Wright's administration, the Daughters of the American Revolution passed an amendment to the society's bylaws in June 2023 that states the organization cannot discriminate on the basis of gender, religion, or sexual orientation.

The amendment was voted on at the 2023 DAR Continental Congress, which was held in Washington, D.C..[14][15] At the congress, Jennifer Mease, a DAR delegate and regent of the Liberty Bell Chapter in Pennsylvania, inquired whether chapters could vote against admitting a new member on the basis of their sex if the applicant was born male and they had changed their birth certificates to indicate they were female.

Pin for the National Huguenot Society, designed by Wright.
Commemorative plaque installed by Wright honoring Ferguson at the D.A.R. headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Wright addressing pages at the 133rd Continental Congress at Constitution Hall in 2024.