About Toni Inglis
Portrait by Ben Sargent, Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist
Toni Inglis, MSN, RN, CNS, FAAN, a clinical nurse specialist in Community Health, holds three degrees from from The University of Texas at Austin — a Bachelor of Arts (in Spanish and French), a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and a Master of Science in Nursing. She was one of 10 graduate students selected to study policy development under the late Congresswoman Barbara Jordan at the LBJ School of Public Affairs in Austin.
In 1992, she was selected as the Outstanding Graduating Graduate Student by the UT-Austin School of Nursing, and in 1995 as the school’s Outstanding Alumna of the Year.
Inglis has practiced neonatal intensive care nursing for more than three decades. She is also a medical writer known for her ability to explain complex health issues and policy in easily understood terms.
In addition to editing a monthly nursing publication and blog for the Seton Healthcare Family, she is a regular opinion contributor to the Austin American-Statesman. Her columns, numbering upward of 100, concern health policy, health care, nursing, humor and politics and have been published in many newspapers and scholarly journals.
(Two magazines have published how Toni began writing newspaper commentary. Click to read The Good Life and Austin Monthly.)
Toni's preferred mode of transportation is her Yamaha Vino.
A passionate advocate for public health and mental health, Inglis has served on numerous commissions and boards. She served for 12 years as a member of the Board of Trustees of Austin Travis County Integral Care, formerly Austin Travis County Mental Health Mental Retardation.
In 2009, Inglis received the Austin Business Journal’s “Healthcare Hero” award. In 2011, she was inducted as a fellow into the American Academy of Nursing in Washington, DC.
Inglis lives in downtown Austin with her husband Ian Inglis, a criminal defense attorney. They have three grown children — Burton Knight, Erin Inglis and John Inglis.
