Sally Ann Jackson is an American scholar of argumentation, communication, and rhetoric.
She is Professor Emerita of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
In 2007 she returned to the University of Illinois as a faculty member and Chief Information Officer of the campus.
[1] She resigned from the position of CIO in 2011 to protest administrative changes that she feared would harm the Urbana campus' status as a world leader in information technology [2] but remains a faculty member.
[3] The central theme in Professor Jackson's work has been communication design, with specific interests ranging from the natural design of argumentation to highly engineered systems for managing complex human activities.