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Ainslie, Daphny

Daphny Leah Dominguez Ainslie is a psychologist in private practice in Austin, Texas. She conducts forensic evaluations, forensic and psychological consultation, psychological assessments, and psychotherapy. She is also the mother of two boys, Jorge and Joaquin, and stays actively engaged in their school and multiple activities. With her husband, she produces documentary films in their business, Dos Manos Productions.

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Ainslie, Gemma Marangoni

Gemma Marangoni Ainslie is a psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Austin, TX.  As well as serving in multiple leadership positions in the Division of Psychoanalysis of the American Psychological Association, Gemma has presented at international, national, regional and local professional meetings on topics such as metaphor, memory and myth; psychoanalysis and the arts, especially film and poetry; female and gender development; various aspects of the clinical encounter.  Her earliest research, while she was in training at the University of Michigan Neuropsychiatric Institute and the Child Analytic Study Program there, addressed topics of transsexuality and female psychological development at the menarche.  Gemma was inducted into the Lambda of Ohio Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at Ohio University, where she received her BA in Psychology; she completed her Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.  She has received leadership and service recognition from several psychoanalytic organizations, is Board Certified by and a Fellow in Psychoanalysis from the American Board of Professional Psychology and is on the faculty of the Center for Psychoanalytic Education.  In Austin, as well as consulting to St. Stephen’s Episcopal School from 1983-2012, she has been President of the Board of All Saints Episcopal Day School, and served on the Boards of Any Baby Can, Women and Their Work, and Austin Public Library Friends Foundation.  She is currently on the board of Phi Beta Kappa Alumni Association of Greater Austin. Gemma’s two adult children, Roberto and Gabriella, and their families are ongoing the source of her greatest pride and the objects of her greatest affection.

 

Ainslie, Ricardo

A native of Mexico City, Ricardo Ainslie uses books, documentary films, and photographic exhibits to capture and depict subjects of social and cultural interest. He holds the M.K. Hage Centennial Professorship in Education at the University of Texas at Austin, teaching in the department of Educational Psychology. He is also the director of the Mexico Center, in addition to having affiliations with numerous other institutes and departments across the University. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and has also been the recipient of numerous other honors and awards, including the Rockefeller’s Bellagio Residency and the American Psychological Association’s Division of Psychoanalysis Science Award. He is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters and the Texas Philosophical Society.

 

Albright, Alex Wilson

After 29 years of teaching at the University of Texas School of Law, Alex retired and is now a partner at the appellate law firm of Alexander Dubose & Jefferson LLP.  She graduated from Sewanee: The University of the South and the University of Texas School of Law.  Alex is a long-time Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas board member, Annie’s List 2017 luncheon co-chair, and a member of the Open Forum.  She has three children: Tommy Albright (investments at Texas Teacher Retirement System), his wife Martha (interior design), and daughter Louise; Wilson Albright (lawyer at Jackson Walker Austin); and Jack Albright (PhD candidate in Geology-Volcanology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign).  Alex and husband (fellow member) Clint Parsley like to ride bikes, enjoy the outdoors, travel, read good books and eat good food!

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Alter, Alison

Alison Alter is a small business owner, a former professor, a community connector, and an environmental advocate. She is honored to represent District 10 and the City of Austin on the Austin City Council.  Council Member Alter has over 20 years of experience working in nonprofits, higher education and through public-private partnerships. She earned her Ph.D. in Political Economy and Government at Harvard University and her B.A. in Public Policy from Stanford University. In 2013, Dr. Alter launched her own philanthropic advising business, Alter Advising, helping individuals, families, and foundations to increase the effectiveness of their giving and to transform their philanthropic experiences.  Before her election, Council Member Alter chaired the We LOVE Ramsey Park renovation campaign. She is proud to have brought together a coalition of neighbors, families, businesses, several City of Austin departments, and local non-profits to transform Ramsey Park into a park where people of all ages can play, gather, and grow together year-around. She served as the District 10 Representative for the Parks and Recreation Board, on the Land, Facilities, and Program Committee and the Land Use/Parkland Dedication working group. She is a 2015 graduate of the Leadership Austin Essential Class.  She is married to UT Professor Jeremi Suri and they have two amazing children, Natalie and Zachary. 

 

Bekink, Gabrielle de Kuyper

Gabrielle de Kuyper Bekink started her career as Executive Vice President of John de Kuyper and Zoon B.V. Canada, Ltd., where she was responsible for de Kuyper Canada and U.S. operations. She co-founded Sheshunoff Information Services in 1971, and was its chief executive until 1988 when International Thomson (now Thomson Reuters) acquired the company. Gabrielle continued to run the business until 1992.  She then purchased the company back in 1994 and sold it again in 1996.  It is currently owned by Lexis-Nexis.  Gabrielle is founder and CEO of Sheshunoff Consulting + Solutions, which includes Bennington Partners (loan review), Harcourt Group (risk management and audit review), Sheshunoff & Co Investment Banking, Affiliated Bankers Capital and Sheshunoff Affiliation Services (CEO group meeting), all in the community banking sector.  Gabrielle has served on the board of the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, the Texas Book Festival and the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas. She also served on the Board of Directors of the American Friends of the British Museum. Gabrielle currently serves as a Commissioner for the Smithsonian American Art Commission.  Gabrielle was born and raised in Montreal, Canada and graduated from King’s Hall and attended McGill University in Montreal. She has two children, George Blake Cabot, Jr., and Alexander Austin Sheshunoff, Jr., four grandsons and is married to Rudolf Simon Bekink, the former Netherlands Ambassador to the United States.  Gabrielle and her husband currently reside in Austin, Texas and Prouts Neck, Maine.

 

Bekink, Ambassador Rudolf

Ambassador Rudolf Simon Bekink was born on Sept. 30, 1950, in Assen, a town of about 67,000 people in the northeastern part of the Netherlands.  He earned his Master of Arts in Economics from the University of Groningen in 1974. Two years later -after his military service, when he was commissioned as an Army Lieutenant - he began working at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.  At the beginning of his diplomatic career he worked in Athens, Greece, Luanda, Angola and the East Asia Division of the Foreign Ministry.  From 1982-1986, Ambassador Bekink served as the First Secretary for the Political Department in the Embassy in Washington, D.C., covering Africa, Latin America, Europe, and protocol. Since then, he has held positions as the Chargé d’Affaires to Ghana, Deputy Head of Division for the Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Personnel Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Deputy Head of Mission Dutch Permanent Representation to the OECD of Paris, and the Director of Protocol for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 2000-2004, Ambassador Bekink was Ambassador to Sweden, from 2004-2008 he was Ambassador to Belgium, from 2008-2012 he was Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, and from 2012-2015 Ambassador to the United States.  Ambassador Bekink retired in 2015. He and his wife, Gabrielle de Kuyper Bekink currently reside in Austin, Texas and Prouts Neck, Maine.  Together, they have five sons and six grandchildren.  “Ambassadors are permanently astonished,” he said. “I love to meet people who accomplish something in this world. It makes a diplomat cheer.”

 

Biebas, Dr. Carolyn

Dr. Biebas grew up in Lee Co., Texas, attended the University of Texas for undergrad and UTMB (now the John Sealy School of Medicine) for medical school and residency. Upon completion of her residency, she joined the Austin Anesthesiology Group with whom she has practiced for almost 38 years.  Dr. Biebas was married to Dr. Donald Patrick for 26 years before his death in 2015.  They have one daughter. 

 

Block, Susan

Susan Aspinall Block has a B.A. from the University of Alabama and an M.L.A. from SMU.  She also attended Agnes Scott College.  She has been involved with Leadership Dallas, Leadership Texas, and was a caseworker for the Dallas Department of Child Welfare.  She has been on the board of the following organizations:  Dallas Museum of Art, St Michaels Episcopal Church, Hockaday School, Kendall County Commissioners Court, Open Forum, Friends of Austin Library, Trail Foundation, Wildflower Center, Blanton Museum of Art, and UT Press Advisory Board.  Her husband Terence Stephenson, who has a BSc, MSc from Imperial College, London, is a mining engineer and fellow Tuesday Club member.  Susan has two daughters (lawyers), their husbands (lawyers), and four grandchildren. She and Terry are avid fly fishermen, birders, campers, hikers and enthusiastic travelers. 

 

Bobbitt, Philip

Philip Bobbitt currently serves on the faculties of Columbia Law School and the University of Texas, where he is the Herbert Wechsler Professor of Jurisprudence, and Distinguished Senior Lecturer, respectively.  He has published 10 books, most recently Impeachment: A Handbook (with Black, 2d edition) (2018).  Dr. Bobbitt also has an extensive history of government service in both Republican and Democratic administrations. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and a former trustee of Princeton University.

 

Bobbitt, Maya Ondalikoglu

Maya Ondalikoglu Bobbitt is a lawyer specializing in asset-based lending agreements, and infrastructure finance at Vinson, Elkins.  She was born in Istanbul, Turkey and is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (summa cum laude) and the Columbia Law School.  An accomplished competitive equestrian, she carried the Olympic torch into Istanbul in 2004. She was the principal architect and founder of the Grameen Bank in Egypt.  The Bobbitts have four children: Pasha (8), Rebekah (6), Eliza (1) and Louisa (1).

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Borders, Tom

Tom Borders received a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and M.A. from the University of Michigan. He is on the Advisory Board of the Harry Ransom Center and is the Founding Director of the Bank of Ann Arbor. He co-founded Borders Book Shop and plays tennis and golf.

 

Bray, Molly

Dr. Bray is a Professor and Chair, and holder of the Susan T. Jastrow Endowed Chair in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin, with a master’s degree in Exercise Physiology and a PhD in Human and Molecular Genetics.  She also served as the former Director of the Heflin Center for Genomic Science Genomics Core Laboratory at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the Children’s Nutrition Research Center/Baylor College of Medicine Genetics Core Laboratory.  Dr. Bray’s research focuses on the relationship between energy balance and lifestyle factors such as exercise, nutrition, and circadian patterns of behavior.   Dr. Bray also currently leads one of the largest genetic studies of exercise adherence established to date, the Training Interventions and Genetics of Exercise Response (TIGER) study, with a total cohort of more than 3,500 individuals.  Dr. Bray has published extensively in a wide range of peer-reviewed journals and her work has been featured in national and international scientific meetings.

 

Brown, Pat

Pat grew up in Lindale, a small town in East Texas.  Her first job was Assistant News Director, KLTV in Tyler, Texas from 1963-1965.  She earned both a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts from Stephen F. Austin State University.  Pat was Feature Editor for Pine Log, SFA student newspaper while in school.  She taught at Robert E. Lee High school in Tyler, Texas, during the tumultuous years following court-ordered racial integration.   As a member of a three-teacher committee, she wrote the curriculum guide for Eleventh Grade English and compiled and edited the curriculum guide for Twelfth Grade English for the Tyler Independent School District.  Pat also conducted a Title IX workshop for Tyler teachers and later taught a program for at risk youth at Austin High School.  She then founded Pat Brown and Company, Residential and Investment Real Estate in 1982.  She was Past President of the Metropolitan Breakfast Club and President of Ridge at Lost Creek Homeowner’s Association.  Pat says the biggest reward for her work is the people she meets, including Dr. Kenneth and Carolyn Shine, who became dear friends and nominated her for membership in Tuesday Club in 2007.

 

Cahill, Bonnie

Bonnie Cahill was raised in Dallas, Texas; attended the University of Houston; worked as Director of Sales of Government Services for Experian Corporation.  She is married to Frank Cahill and they enjoy Adult Education, politics and travel. She has two children, both boys, and a granddaughter and grandson. She has been the Chair of the University of Texas LAMP organization, Democrat Precinct Chairman, State Delegate for Hillary Clinton. She plays duplicate bridge.

 

Cahill, Frank

Frank Cahill was born and raised in Kingston, New York, where he attended public schools. After service in Army in Korea during the war in that country, he graduated from State University of New York at New Paltz and received a master’s degree from Cornell University.  He had a 32-year career in Warner Lambert, now part of Pfizer.  During the last nine years he was President and CEO of Warner Lambert operations in Mexico.  He retired to Austin in 1991.  He has 2 sons and 2 granddaughters living in Denver.  He is married to Bonnie Cahill and they are active in Adult Education and enjoy traveling.

 

Cain, Joe

Joe was born in Houston, Texas. He attended the University of Virginia and University of Texas at Austin, where he received his BA in English.  He received his JD from the University of Texas Law School.  Joe has practiced business law in Austin for 46 years and is almost retired.  Joe has two daughters and two grandchildren, all in Austin.  He lives alone since the death of his wife.  Joe is a member of First English Lutheran Church and tries to behave like it.  He has an interest in poetry and mathematics.  He enjoys flying his small airplane and spending time with people dear to him.

 

Carpenter, Christy

Christy Carpenter assists non-profit organizations, drawing on more than three decades of experience as a senior executive in both the for-profit and non-profit sectors. Prior to relocating to Austin in 2013, she served as the CEO of the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute in Arkansas, a center for thought leadership on significant state, national, and international issues. From 2003–2011, Carpenter served in New York City as the EVP & COO of The Paley Center for Media—the premier institution dedicated to advancing the understanding of media—its artistic value, business dynamics, and cultural impact.   Previously, Carpenter held senior-level management positions with the State Bar of California, the Wine Institute, Hill & Knowlton, and Warner Cable. In 1998, President Clinton appointed Carpenter to the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, where she was elected vice chair. Subsequently, she served on the board of KCET (PBS) in Los Angeles. Currently, she serves as secretary of Board of Austin/PBS (formerly KLRU) and its executive committee as well as on the Advisory Board of UT Press.  Carpenter received her B.A. from Brown University and J.D. from the Washington College of Law at American University. Raised in Washington, DC, by two Texan parents, Liz and Les Carpenter, Carpenter is a sixth-generation Texan.  She lives in Austin with her husband, Robert Walden, an accomplished actor, director, and acting teacher.

 

Cecil, Grayson

Grayson is from Beaumont, Texas. She received a BA, MPH, and JD from the University of Texas. From 1989-1993, Cecil served as Special Counsel for Natural Resources for the Department of Commerce and was in private practice until her retirement in 2000.  She has three sons and ten grandchildren and is a private pilot, potter, and enthusiastic traveler.

 

Chan, Adelaida Annabella

Native to Manila with a mixture of bloodlines and having resided and worked on 5 continents, Annabella Chan has enjoyed a career that has spanned several industries from Agriculture to Travel, from International Trading to organizing Conferences on National Security and Energy in SouthEast Asia, from Documentary Production to Steel Fabrication. Currently involved in the recycling of houses entailing relocating them from Austin TX properties purchased for the land to outlying communities. This allows for helping save the planet while providing affordable housing. Most proud of her two decades of Off Grid home in a remote Pacific Island, she has been known for constructing an Intelligent Home in 1980 on Lake Austin with solar panels, water-based heat pumps, berms and computer-controlled dampers that are finally being adopted in construction 4 decades later. Acknowledged for introducing Qi Gong in the mid ‘80s to Austin, she is a recipient of several awards, and continues to explore and invest in new directions that are kinder to Mother Earth.

 

Chisholm, Barbara

Barbara Chisholm is one of Austin, Texas’ most visible and lauded actors, with appearances in more than 50 stage productions and numerous film and television roles. Most notably she had a supporting role in the Oscar-nominated film Boyhood, a recurring role in the Emmy nominated ABC drama American Crime, created by Oscar-winning screenwriter John Ridley, and an appearance in the beloved and critically acclaimed Friday Night Lights. Onstage, Ms. Chisholm starred in the world premiere, one-woman play Erma Bombeck: At Wit’s End at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. and at The Cincinnati Playhouse, both under the direction of Broadway director David Esbjornson. Additional credits include Misery at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; ¾ Inches of Sky at The Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis; Keep Your Forks at Berkeley Rep; The Women at San Diego Rep; Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins at Austin’s Zach Theatre. She has been voted Best Actor three times in the Austin Chronicle’s annual Best of Austin Readers Poll and has won multiple acting honors from the Austin Critics Table, the B. Iden Payne Theatre Awards and Drama Logue. As producer, she is responsible for three highly successful runs (two in Austin, one at the New Orleans Shakespeare Festival) of a one-man adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry V, and the solo play in which she starred, When Something Wonderful Ends. She teaches acting at the University of Texas at Austin; is married to journalist, director, and actor Robert Faires; and is the proud parent of early career director and UT Honors graduate, Rosalind Faires.

 

Christian, Elizabeth

Elizabeth Christian, a fourth generation Austinite and journalism graduate of the University of Texas, is CEO of Elizabeth Christian Public Relations, one of Austin’s oldest and largest PR firms.  Christian has a four-decade career in public relations, journalism and political affairs. In addition to running an award-winning PR firm, which serves such clients as Google and Google Fiber, St. David’s HealthCare, Texas Mutual Insurance, the Austin Board of Realtors, the Downtown Austin Alliance, and others, she is active in the community.  She is a vice chair of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation and past president of the Headliners Club and of the Austin Area Research Organization. She is an active member of the board of trustees of the Greater Austin Crime Commission and the Covenant Presbyterian Foundation.  She has long been active with the Austin Chamber of Commerce, having served at various times as chair of the transportation, education and communications committees. She has attended (and helped underwrite) virtually every Chamber intercity trip and has made numerous visits to Washington with Chamber delegations to lobby for Central Texas interests.  Christian and her late husband, former Austin Mayor Bruce Todd, have two grown children.

 

Clifton, Dr. Guy

Dr. Clifton was founding Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston where he served for 22 years, holding the Runnells Distinguished Chair in Neurosurgery.  Dr. Clifton was awarded a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowship from 2006-2007 in the office of Senator Orrin Hatch.  In 2009 Dr. Clifton, authored Flatlined: Resuscitating American Medicine, Rutgers University Press, which proposed aligning provider payment with the quality and efficiency of care.   From 2010-2012 Clifton acted as a consultant to the Texas Health and Human Services Commission and acted as advisor to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs. He has served as a Presidential appointee to the Defense Health Board and a trustee of the Vivian L. Smith Foundation for Neurological Research. Dr. Clifton is CEO and founder of ACTIN Care Groups which provides an ACA-compliant health plan to self-insured employers in the Chicago area.  Actin Care Groups is committed to improving our community’s healthcare and wellness by access to attentive care and health education.  We drive the highest quality of care while lowering cost by partnering with best-in-class healthcare systems.

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Clifton, Karen

Karen Clifton is currently the founding Executive Coordinator of the Catholic Prison Ministries Coalition (CPMC). The goal of CPMC is to promote, recruit, train and empower all people who are called to minister to those affected by incarceration/detention. They also strive to create a more just and merciful carceral system that upholds the dignity of every human person and advance restorative justice. This coalition was an offshoot of 10 years as the founding Executive Director of Catholic Mobilizing Network (CMN) in Washington, DC. CMN is the national faith based organization working to end the use of the death penalty and promote restorative justice. She began her work against the death penalty in 1996 in Houston, Texas, when her social justice and advocacy projects intersected with those of Sr. Helen Prejean, CSJ (Dead Man Walking). Karen holds a BS in Physical Therapy and a Masters in Divinity from University of St. Thomas, St. Mary’s School of Theology, and has worked in spiritual direction since 1996. She is the mother of five adult children and grandmother to ten grandchildren. Karen was awarded the Standard of Christ Award from Jesuit Volunteer Corps, Houston in 2003 and the 2011 Servitor Pacis Award by the Path to Peace Foundation, the Mission of the Vatican to the United Nations to promote peace.

 

Connor, Hon. Geoff

Geoff is an attorney, board-certified in administrative law.  He served as general counsel of the Texas Department of Agriculture and then the Texas Environmental Quality Commission before entering private practice.  He is a National Security Fellow with the Clements Center at the University of Texas, and a JAG officer in the Texas State Guard. He has been an appointee of three Texas Governors, including a term as Texas Secretary of State 2002-2005.  He has a BA in International Studies from Texas State University (Distinguished Alumnus 2013), a graduate certificate in Intelligence from Texas A&M, and a JD and PhD both from the University of Texas.  He is a member of the Texas Lyceum, the Texas Philosophical Society, the Explorers Club of New York, the Knights of the Symphony, the Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem (Knights Templar), the Venerable Order of St. John, the Dallas Safari Club, Travelers Century Club, and the Austin Council on Foreign Affairs.  He is the author of the forthcoming book The Rise of Houston as a Global City (Texas A&M University Press 2020).

 

Conti, Salvatore (Sal)

Born and raised in New York City, Sal graduated from the City College of New York with a degree in civil engineering.  His career specializing in structural engineering was spent in California, New Jersey and Texas.  He arrived in Houston in 1972 spending most of his career there.  In 1981 he was a founding partner in the structural engineering firm of Conti Jumper Gardner (later known as CJG). CJG expanded to Austin in 2005. Sal moved to Austin in 2005 to marry Susie Dudley.  In 2013 he retired and sold his ownership in CJG.  He now practices as an independent structural consultant.  Susie and Sal have children and grandchildren in Houston and Los Angeles. 

 

Cook, Matt

Matt Cook is a screenwriter, director, and producer of various studio and independent films and television. His work includes feature films The Duel, Triple Nine, and Patriot’s Day. Matt broke into the industry in 2009 and has since written for Warner Bros, Fox, New Regency, DreamWorks, Sony, Studio 8, Paramount, and CBS Films. After graduating from college, Cook enlisted in the U.S. Army. His first day of basic training was 9/11. He served two combat tours in Iraq with the prestigious 1st Battalion, 187th Infantry (Rakkasans), 101st Airborne, and has written several articles for Texas Monthly about his experiences. He was honorably discharged at the rank of Staff Sergeant in January of 2007. He also served as a correspondent in Afghanistan in 2012. Cook was raised in the tiny three stoplight town of Castroville, Texas, and attended the University of Texas at Austin, where he majored in Radio/Television/Film and minored in Theater. He currently lives in Austin with his wife Lauren and two young sons.

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Crook, Elizabeth

Elizabeth Crook is the author of five historical novels, including The Night Journal, which received the Spur Award from Western Writers of America; Monday, Monday, awarded the Jesse H. Jones Award from The Texas Institute of Letters and named a Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of 2014; and, The Which Way Tree, currently under option for film. Elizabeth has written for The Southwestern Historical Quarterly and Texas Monthly and is co-writer, with Stephen Harrigan, of the screenplay for The Which Way Tree.  She has served on the council of the Texas Institute of Letters, the Board of the Texas Book Festival, the advisory council of the Harry Ransom Center, and currently serves on the board of Humanities Texas. 

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Crowley, Berry

A fourth generation Texan, Berry grew up in Alpine, spent 4 years in California at Mills College (BA 1969), and returned to Texas to attend UT law school (JD, December 1971).  After two years in Brenham, she and her husband, returned to Austin in 1974.  By then she had two daughters and a third would soon follow in 1976.  She took a job at the Austin firm of Small, Craig and Wekenthin (now Jackson Walker), where she was the first female lawyer, and in 1981 the first female partner.  She was elected President of the Texas Young Lawyers Association in 1983, being the first female to win a state-wide bar election, then serving as the first female in that position. In 1984 she married Michael J. Crowley, who died in 2000.  In 1994 she left her law firm and took a position as the Executive Director of the Texas Center for Legal Ethics which grew to national leadership under her direction.  In 2006 she again changed careers and has been practicing as a solo practitioner at her home office since.  She has won several awards, the most prominent of which is the Distinguished Lawyer Award from the Austin Bar in 2015.  She has been a member of the Headliners Club since 1987, a longtime member of Tuesday Club, and is currently enjoying the Texana Book Club.  She is Grandberry to her nine grandchildren, ranging in age from 6 to 20.

 

Dealey, Mandy

A longtime community advocate, Mandy Dealey has been actively involved in both nonprofit organizations and City efforts for thirty years.  She has served on the Austin Arts Commission, the 1993 Charter Revision Task Force, the Austin/Travis County Indigent Health Care Task Force, the Waterfront Overlay Task Force, the Downtown Commission and the Planning Commission. In addition to her extensive service in city government, she has been active in community and other organizations, having chaired the boards of Planned Parenthood of Austin, Preservation Austin, the Texas Lyceum and the Austin Area Mental Health Association.  Also, she has served as a board member of the Austin Community Foundation, the Girls Scouts, PeopleFund, the Austin Symphony Orchestra, Austin Lyric Opera.  A graduate of Leadership Austin’s Essential Class 1985-1986, she also served on the board 2008-2010.  Currently, she serves on the Advisory Council of the Harry Ransom Center, the boards of Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas and the James Dick Foundation/Festival Institute at Round Top, Texas. In addition, she is the board chair of KMFA-Classical Radio and president of Town and Gown Club.  She is also a member of the Philosophical Society of Texas.  Having grown up in Dallas, Mandy moved with her family to Austin in 1982.  A fourth generation Texan, she loves spending time with her son Christopher who manages the family ranch in San Saba. 

 

Dudley, Susan Sanford

Born and lived in Tucson, Arizona until I was 12 when we moved to Fairfield, Conn. Attended Eastern schools and college; studied in Paris; worked in New York City and several schools on the East coast.  Moved to Austin in 1974 and was Dean of Girls at St. Stephen’s Episcopal School for a year. I experienced a variety of jobs including A Growing Concern-landscaping; St. Michael’s Academy first Director of Development; sold Volvo’s for Import Motors. From 1989-2014 I joined Amelia Bullock Realtor’s and was blessed to be learn the business from Amelia, herself! Kuper Sotheby’s International Realty acquired the company in 2014. For the last six years I have been a referral agent with Sotheby’s.  I helped to start the Austin Gladney Auxilary in 1976.  Austin Natural Science Center; Junior League of Austin; Fleur de League Garden Club and KLRU- Producer’s Circle, Board Member and Austin City Limits have been my community involvement over the years.  Salvatore (Sal) Conti and I are about to celebrate our 15th Anniversary. We love to read, travel, entertain and attend talks at the LBJ Friends Program and spend time with our 3 grandchildren.

 

Ellmer, Mindy

Mindy Ellmer provides strategic counsel on legislative and regulatory policy, political engagement and grassroots deployment. With over twenty years of practical experience before the Texas Legislature and state agencies, boards and commissions, Mindy provides effective counsel to Fortune 500 Companies and local government organizations and non-profit organizations. Mindy began her career inside the Texas Capitol, working for the Governor’s Office and in both the Texas House and Senate. She launched her lobby career at the Texas Dental Association and then moved to Bracewell, LLP before opening her own firm. Mindy is a member of the Texas Taxpayers and Research Association, Chancellor’s Council, University of Texas System and the Downtown Austin Alliance. She also serves as the Advocacy Chairman on the Board of Trustees for the Texas Cultural Trust, is on the executive committee and is a past President of the Board of Trustees of ZACH Theatre, is on the board of the National Council for the American Theatre and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Headliners Club.

 

Emanuel, Victor

Victor Emanuel attended Rice University from 1958-1960 and the University of Texas from 1960-63, where he received a B.A. He received his M.A. in Government from Harvard University from 1963-69 and was Resident Tutor in Government from 1965-69. Mr. Emanuel taught Political Science at Rice University; managed political campaigns, including Mike Andrews for U.S. Representative and Mickey Leland for U.S. Representative; and founded VICTOR EMANUEL NATURE TOURS in 1976, where he is currently the CEO. He is involved in Westcave, Travis Audubon, the Texas Nature Conservancy, the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, and the American Bird Conservancy. He has received the Arthur A. Allen Award from Cornell University and the Roger Tory Peterson Award from the American Birding Association. Mr. Emanuel has been doing birding and nature observation all over the world for over 50 years and enjoys visiting sites of classical Greece.

 

Enniss, Lucy

Lucy and her husband Steve moved to Austin in 2013 from Washington DC. She grew up in Georgia and went to Converse College in South Carolina. Lucy is employed with The University of Texas System Office of External Relations. In her spare time, she’s an animal welfare advocate and enjoys the visual and performing arts.

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Enniss, Stephen

Dr. Stephen Enniss is Director of the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin.  He has held previous appointments at the Folger Shakespeare Library and at Emory University’s Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library.  His research interests are in twentieth century poetry, and he has written on Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and Seamus Heaney, among other figures.  He co-curated the award-winning Grolier Club exhibition “No Other Appetite”: Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, and the Blood Jet of Poetry.  He is past recipient of a Leverhulme Fellowship from the University of London, and he is the author of After the Titanic: A Life of Derek Mahon (Gill and Macmillan, 2014).  He is currently at work on a collective biography of the Belfast Group poets.

 

Faires, Robert

Robert Faires is Arts Editor for The Austin Chronicle, where he has been covering the city’s cultural scene for 35 years. In 2011, American Theatre Magazine named him to a list of 12 of the nation’s most influential theatre critics, and in 2019, he was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters. His writing and criticism have also been recognized with awards from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. In addition to his work as an arts journalist, he is a practicing theatre artist, and since 1980, he has worked on more than 75 theatrical productions across the city as an actor, director, and writer. In 2009, he realized a 20-year dream by performing a solo version of Shakespeare’s Henry V that he conceived and adapted. The project was produced by his wife, the accomplished actress Barbara Chisholm, and their daughter, Rosalind, who is a UT honors graduate and working as a theatre director and freelance writer. He is a graduate of the College of Fine Arts at the University of Texas at Austin.

 

Fason, Maydelle

Maydelle Fason grew up in San Antonio and graduated Valedictorian from Alamo Heights High School. She attended Sweet Briar College in Virginia for two years and then transferred to UT Austin where she completed a degree in Chemistry.  She was elected Queen of San Antonio Fiesta in 1962 while employed as a research chemist in Dallas. She married Sam in 1963 and they moved to Misawa, Japan where their son Drake was born. While she was in Japan, she taught English to Japanese high school students. She and Sam moved to Austin in 1970 where she started a women’s employment program with funding from the city.  She is a committed environmentalist and served on the city’s Zero Waste Commission. She loves the theatre and when she was on the Paramount Board, she led theatre trips to London and New York for 10 years; she still spends time in NYC to visit daughter Maydelle.

 

Fason, Dr. Sam

Dr. Sam Fason grew up in Waco and attended Waco High School.  After high school, he moved to Austin, where he graduated from UT with a degree in Biology. He met Maydelle in German class and they were married in 1963. Sam received his DDS from Baylor Dental School and completed his Oral-Maxillo Facial Surgery 4 year residency at Parkland Hospital, Dallas. He and was stationed in Japan for 3 years where he completed his Air Force obligation. Sam and Maydelle traveled extensively in the Orient and to this day remain avid travelers. They have two children: Dr. Drake Fason, Anesthesiologist, living in Austin, and Maydelle Fason Liss, living in New York City and a practicing RN. Sam retired after practicing Oral Surgery for 47 years.  He began in 1970 as a solo practitioner but over the years he grew his practice, Austin Oral-Maxillo Facial Surgery, to 14 oral surgeons.

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Flake Chapman, Carol

Carol Flake Chapman has worked as a writer and editor for several leading newspapers and magazines, including Vanity Fair, The Boston Globe, The New Republic and Texas Monthly. She has covered religion and spirituality, culture, politics, travel and nature. She has written five nonfiction books, and she has published poems in a number of journals. Her most recent book, Written in Water: A Memoir of Love, Death and Mystery, tells of her pilgrimage from grief to consolation after the sudden death of her husband Gary Chapman on a wild river in Guatemala.

 

Flawn, Tyrrell

A cum laude graduate of The University of Texas at Austin and MBA graduate with honors from Rice University, Tyrrell Flawn has a life-long commitment to non-profit organizations. Most recently, in Washington DC, she served as Executive Director of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel at the U.S. Department of Education. Prior to that she was Executive Director of the Children’s Inn at the National Institutes of Health. In Austin, she served as Executive Director of the RGK Foundation, and at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston she was Director of Volunteer Services which included responsibility for the gift shops, beauty shop, endowment and the Children’s Art Project. She is a member of the Advisory Council of The University of Texas College of Natural Sciences and a member of the Advisory Council of The University of Texas Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. For more than thirty years, she has been a member of the Advisory Council for the School of Human Ecology at The University of Texas at Austin where she has served on the Executive Committee and as chair.   She and her husband John Howe have four surviving children–in Austin and Southern California—and nine wonderful grandchildren.

 

Free, Jolynn

Jolynn Free is a Senior Vice President – Financial Consultant with Stephens Inc.  Before joining the firm in 2012, she began her investment career in 1980, serving in the former Austin offices of Rotan Mosle, Kidder Peabody and RBC Wealth Management.  She holds BFA and MFA degrees from The University of Texas at Austin.  She is an Accredited Investment Fiduciary (AIF) Designee.  Jolynn’s community involvement has encompassed service on numerous boards, foundations and capital campaign committees including the Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Huntington Gallery, Conspirare, Pathfinders and All Saints’ Church.  She served as founder and Chair of the RBC Dain Rauscher Association of Women Brokers, the Music Umbrella, the Seton Forum, the Quin Foundation of the Diocese of Texas, the Foundation for Religious Studies at the University of Texas, Seton Cove, and Austin Community Foundation.  She has served as a Community Advisor for the Junior League of Austin and as Senior Warden at All Saints’ Church. Jolynn has also served as a member of the Board of Advisors of the Settlement Club Home, Austin Children’s Shelter, Conspirare, Lifeworks, Director’s Council of the Department of Theatre & Dance at the University of Texas and has served as Special Guest Lecturer and Convener of a Senior Colloquy of The Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest.   Currently, Jolynn is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for Expanding Horizons, Chair of the Church Corporation of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas, member of the Board of Trustees of St. Stephens Episcopal School and The Seton Fund, member of the Women’s Fund of the Austin Community Foundation (former Chair), and former President of the Headliners Club Board of Trustees.  She is Board Member Emeritus of SafePlace.  Jolynn and her husband, Gregg, live in central Austin.  They have one daughter and one grandson.

 

Frick, Laurie

Laurie Frick uses data to examine what we can know about ourselves. In her hand-built art installations, drawings and small works she experiments with how we will consume the mass of data increasingly captured about us. Evidence of her engineering background and long-history in high-tech are seen in the deep data analysis and detailed explanations of how this future will unfold. Her work about the future of data were recently featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, Atlantic and Wired Magazine; she has been invited to talk at Google, SXSW, Stanford and TEDx. Recipient of numerous residencies and awards, including Samsung Research, Yaddo, Bemis and Facebook. She holds an MFA from the New York Studio School, an MBA from University of Southern California and studied at NYU’s ITP program that melded art and technology into her current data work. Recent installations include public art in downtown Austin, CapitalOne, Facebook, Texas A&M and Michigan State University. Represented by Margaret Thatcher Projects in New York, she has shown at numerous galleries with inclusion in an ongoing exhibition at the Musee de Civilization in Quebec. Born in Los Angeles, she lives and works in Austin, Texas.

 

Frick, Mark P.

I read macro-economic and global finance for fun and hum along to heavy metal while I do my taxes. I eventually found the right profession and care about how my clients save, spend and invest their money. After completing degrees in Political Science and Sociology from University of California, Santa Barbara, and post graduate work in Computer Science, I embarked on a long career in the Technology Industry, holding executive positions at Hewlett-Packard, Compaq Computer and Siebel Systems.  With a passion for investing, I made the career change in 2002, as a Financial Advisor, CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ [2005] and Certified Investment Management Analyst™ [2008].  I am currently a partner in the Frick & Solka Wealth Management Group, working with a range of individual families and businesses, providing strategic financial planning and investment management. The consultative approach from my technology career and my background in sociology translate well to developing and implementing lifelong financial/investment/planning strategies with a deep understanding of my clients’ needs.

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Galbraith, Jamie

James K. Galbraith holds the Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and a professorship in Government at The University of Texas at Austin.  Galbraith holds degrees from Harvard University (BA) and Yale University (MA, M.Phil, PhD).  He was Executive Director of the Joint Economic Committee of the United States Congress in the early 1980s and has advised the State Planning Commission of P.R. China and the Greek Finance Ministry. He chaired the board of Economists for Peace and Security from 1996 to 2016 (www.epsusa.org) and directs the University of Texas Inequality Project (http://utip.lbj.utexas.edu).   He is a managing editor of Structural Change and Economic Dynamics.  In 2010, he was elected to the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.  In 2014 he was co-winner with Angus Deaton of the Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economics.  In 2020 he received the Veblen-Commons Award of the Association for Evolutionary Economics.  Galbraith’s recent books include Welcome to the Poisoned Chalice: The Destruction of Greece and the Future of Europe (2016); Inequality: What Everyone Needs to Know (2016); The End of Normal:  The Great Crisis and the Future of Growth (2014); Inequality and Instability:  A Study of the World Economy Just Before the Great Crisis (2012); The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too (2008).

 

Greig, Brian

Brian Greig is attorney in Austin, Texas, where he devotes his time to community service.  He is currently the Chairman of the Headliners Club of Austin, a downtown business club, and Capital Academies, Inc., a non-profit organization coordinating career and technical education programs for high school students and young adults in Central Texas.  Greig practiced law with Norton Rose Fulbright US LP for nearly forty years before retiring from the partnership at the end of 2015.  He headed the Firm’s Employment and Labor Practice and served as an elected member of management.  His practice involved trials in both state and federal courts around the United States, as well as providing counselling and advice on all aspects of the employment relationship.  Much of his work involved trade secret, restrictive covenant, and similar litigation relating to efforts to protect employers’ assets and expertise possessed by departing employees.  He remains Of Counsel to the Firm.  He is a native Austinite and graduated from Stephen F. Austin High School.  Greig then attended Washington & Lee University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in economics and was elected President of Fancy Dress.  Subsequently, at the University of Texas School of Law he received his JD.  While in law school he was editor of the American Journal of Criminal Law and a member of the Phi Delta Phi honor society.  Prior to joining what was then Fulbright, Crooker, Freeman, Bates & Jaworski he clerked for the Honorable Joe J. Fisher, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.  In the early 1980s, while still with the law firm, he served as Special Counsel to the Attorney General of Texas in the landmark Ruiz v. Estelle prison conditions case.  He has been named one of the top ten attorneys in Texas.  Civic and professional associations past and present include: Chancellor’s Council, The University of Texas, Austin Area Research Association, Headliners Foundation of Texas, Executive Committee of Texas Association of Business, former President of Capital of Texas Public Communications Council (KLRU-TV), former Chair of Laguna Gloria Art Museum, former President of Austin Museum of Art, former Vice-President, Zachary Scott Theater, Board of Directors of Institute of Texan Cultures, Board of Trustees for St. Andrews Episcopal School, and Board of Trustees for St. Stephens Episcopal School.  Brian is married to retired newspaper columnist Jane Greig, and he has two children and three grandchildren.  He enjoys fishing, hunting, and spending time in the mountains of Western North Carolina at NoBears.

 

Guiberteau, Milton J. (Jeremy)

Dr. Milton J. (Jeremy) Guiberteau is Professor of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine Emeritus at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), and retired Professor of Clinical Radiology at the University of Texas Health Science Center - Houston. He is a native of Texas who earned his undergraduate degree at Rice University and a Doctorate of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. After serving an internship at the University of Chicago Pritzker Medical School/Argonne Cancer Research Hospital, he completed his residency in diagnostic radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School in Boston. He practiced Radiology and Nuclear Medicine in Houston for over 35 years and is past-President and CEO of Greater Houston Radiology Associates.  Dr. Guiberteau has served as President and a Chancellor of the American College of Radiology (ACR) and is recipient of the ACR Gold Medal for distinguished contributions to the profession of Radiology; President and recipient of the Gold Medal of the Texas Radiological Society; President of the Houston Radiological Society and recipient of its Lifetime Achievement Award; Chair of the Texas Medical Association (TMA) Section of Nuclear Medicine; President of the Southwestern Chapter of the Society of Nuclear Medicine; Member and Chairman of the Texas Radioactive Waste Authority; elected-member of Committee Three of the International Commission on Radiation Protection (ICRP); elected member of the National Council of Radiation Protection; Vice-Chair of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Medical Advisory Committee (ACMUI). In 2011, he was named Distinguished Alumnus in the Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School on the 200th anniversary of the hospital’s founding. He is immediate past-President and Chairman of the Board of Governors of the American Board of Radiology.   Dr. Guiberteau is the co-author of a widely employed textbook of nuclear medicine now in its 7th edition and author of numerous scientific and editorial articles published in peer-reviewed literature.

 

Hatfield, Carol

Carol has lived in Austin nearly all her life, attended Austin public schools from elementary through high school, and graduated from the University of Texas at Austin.  She has been married to Tom Hatfield for fifty-eight years; they have two daughters and five grandchildren.  She was editor of the award-winning University of Texas research magazine, Discovery, for twenty-six years, and retired in August 2002 after working thirty years at the University of Texas. And she has been president of family investment and real estate properties since 1973.  She enjoys reading, cultural events, community activities, and church association.

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Hecht, Hon. Nathan

Nathan L. Hecht is the 27th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas. He has been elected to the Court six times, first in 1988 as a Justice, and most recently in 2014 as Chief Justice. He is the longest-serving Member of the Court in Texas history and the longest-tenured Texas judge in active service. Throughout his service on the Court, he has overseen revisions to the rules of administration, practice, and procedure in Texas courts, and was appointed by the Chief Justice of the United States to the federal Advisory Committee on Civil Rules. He is also active in the Court’s efforts to assure that Texans living below the poverty level, as well as others with limited means, have access to basic civil legal services.  Chief Justice Hecht was appointed to the district court in 1981 and was elected to the court of appeals in 1986. Before taking the bench, he was a partner in the Locke firm in Dallas. He holds a B.A. degree with honors in philosophy from Yale University, and a J.D. degree cum laude from the SMU School of Law, where he was a Hatton W. Sumners Scholar. He clerked for Judge Roger Robb on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and was a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy Reserve Judge Advocate General Corps. He is President of the national Conference of Chief Justices, Chair of the National Center for State Courts, a Life Member of the American Law Institute and a member of Council, and a member of the Texas Philosophical Society.

 

Hilgers, David

David has a B.A. with honors from Swarthmore College and a J.D. with honors from University of Texas at Austin School of Law.  With more than 40 years of experience, David counsels healthcare providers on all their corporate and administrative legal issues, from peer review to billing issues to regulatory compliance.  Currently he sits on the Board of Directors for the James Dick Foundation and on the Board of Directors for Patient Privacy Rights.  He is an advisor to Texas Planned Parenthood and on the Board of Directors for the Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid.  He is married to fellow member Joan Hilgers.

 

Hiott, Debbie

Debbie Hiott is the former editor of the Austin American-Statesman newspaper. She is a 1992 graduate of Southwest Texas State University who started at the newspaper as an intern, then worked as a reporter for eight years before moving into editing and management and working her way up through the leadership ranks in the newsroom to become editor in 2011. Under her leadership, the Statesman was named Texas Newspaper of the Year three times in the past four years, as well as earning several national journalism accolades. Debbie has served as a Pulitzer juror and is currently a board member for the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas, Texas State University School of Journalism advisory board, and past board member of the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors. A member of the Tuesday Club since 2013, she lives in Northwest Austin with her husband Jason Merlo, a software engineer, and their children Violet and Jasper.  

 

Hitchcock, Joanna

Joanna Hitchcock served as Director of the University of Texas Press from 1992 to 2011. She grew up in Dorset, England, and holds an M.A. degree in modern history from Oxford University. She began her publishing career at Oxford University Press in London before crossing the Atlantic to work at Princeton University Press: she held a variety of positions in the marketing and editorial departments there, including those of staff editor, managing editor, executive editor for the humanities, director of development, and assistant director. As a sponsoring editor, she was responsible for Press’s programs in archaeology, classics, European history, and film and media studies, a program she initiated when the academic study of the cinema was in its infancy. At the UT Press, she formed an advisory council with whose help the Press created 24 endowed book series to support key areas of the publishing program and initiate new ones. After retiring in 2011, she joined an international team of Middle Eastern experts and business people to launch Al-Monitor, the online site for reporting from the Middle East.

 

Hitchcock, Martyn

Martyn Hitchcock grew up in London, England; he worked for a year in Germany before earning a degree in Modern and Medieval languages at Cambridge University. Sacrificing his philological to his typographical interests, he found employment on the production side of book publishing, joining Joanna in New Jersey after their marriage in 1969. By 1974 he was the University of Georgia Press’ design and production manager; returning to New Jersey in 1981, he continued to work in all aspects of book and journal production, from translation, editing, proofreading, indexing and design to production management. He also spent three years in computer programming before following Joanna to Austin when she was appointed director of the UT Press.

 

Howard, Linda

Ms. Howard is the retired Director of Planning & Programming for the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) Aviation Division. She was with TxDOT and its predecessor agencies, the Texas Department of Aviation and the Texas Aeronautics Commission for almost twenty-one years, primarily involved in airport system planning and general aviation airport planning and programming. Ms. Howard was responsible for development of the Texas Airport System Plan and the Texas Aviation Facilities Development Program. Prior to her employment with the state, Ms. Howard worked in the private sector as an airport and environmental planner for over twelve years. Ms. Howard served two terms as the Chair of the Transportation Research Board Aviation System Planning Committee and as a member of the Committee on Intergovernmental Relations in Aviation in addition to being actively involved on several Airport Cooperative Research Program panels. She is also an Emeritus member of AV020 and served as an ACRP Ambassador for the FAA Southwest Region.  Ms. Howard received a BS in Environmental Studies from St. Edward’s University and an MS in Community and Regional Planning from the University of Texas at Austin.

 

Howe III, Dr. John P.

After a medical and public health career including 14 years as President and CEO of Project HOPE, an international health education and humanitarian assistance foundation with offices in over 30 countries on 5 continents, he continues to provide active leadership in a variety of health-related organizations. Before coming to HOPE, he held the Distinguished Chair in Health Policy at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and served as the Center’s President. He currently is its President Emeritus. He helped in the founding of the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where he was its Academic Dean and the Vice Chancellor of its Medical Center. His university appointments have also included serving as Vice Chair of the Boston University Board of Trustees and Chair of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College Committee to visit the Medical School and the School of Dental Medicine. He has honorary degrees from the University of Massachusetts, Boston University and Jefferson University. He is board certified in both internal medicine and cardiovascular diseases. He has served on numerous boards including BB&T Bank, MAXIMUS Federal Services, Millendo Therapeutics, Beverly Enterprises and the United States Air Force Scientific Advisory Board. He has served a term as President of the Texas Medical Society. He is a board member of Boston University and the Texas Biomedical Research Institute (Hon). He has also served as a doctor for the Boston Red Sox and for President Ford during a visit to Hawaii. He is a graduate of Amherst College, Boston University School of Medicine and Harvard Business School’s Program in Health Systems Management. He is married to Tyrrell Flawn and has nine grandchildren.

 

Howell, Jeffrey

Jeffrey Howell has held a variety of positions in the business, banking, and higher education sectors.  An MPPM and MBA graduate of Yale University, she served on the board of Los Alamos National Bank and its parent company, ultimately overseeing its sale to a larger bank.  A longtime gardener and outdoor enthusiast, her volunteer service in Austin has included chair of the Advisory Council of the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center.  Earlier, Jeffrey was assistant dean for financial operations at Harvard, executive manager in Stop and Shop Supermarkets, Inc., and consultant at Coopers and Lybrand. Jeffrey loves all things canine, and she was for some years the human half of a K9 wilderness search and rescue team.  She is married to Bill Press.

 

Hull, Meredith

Meredith Hull is originally from Tarboro, NC. She graduated from the University of Alabama with a degree in Interior Design and later received a degree as an Art Director from the Portfolio Center for Advertising in Atlanta, GA. After living in eight states all around the country, Ms. Hull is happy to call Austin home. She works as a professional organizer and stylist. She serves on the board of the Metropolitan Breakfast Club and is on the Programs Committee. Her son is a civil engineering student at the University of Texas and her daughter is majoring in Communications at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah. 

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Jackson, Daniel (Dan) W., III

Dan Jackson is a native of Houston, Texas who earned a B.A. in history from the University of Texas at Austin and a MEd degree from the University of St Thomas, Houston. He served as faculty in social sciences in the Spring ISD for 20 years prior to joining John Daugherty Realtors in Houston as an agent in residential sales. He has served or is serving on the Board of St. Stephen’s Episcopal School in Houston, the Directors Council of Texas Performing Arts at the University of Texas Austin, the UT Forum Excellence Fund Committee, and the Board of Trustees of the Zach Theatre.  In addition to Tuesday Club, his social and community affiliations include Westwood Country Club, Headliners Club, UT Forum, Human Rights Campaign Federal Club Council, UT Performing Arts Benefactor Circle, Zach Theatre’s Great Scott Director’s Circle, the UT Ex-Students’ Association (Texas Exes) - Life Member, the UT Littlefield Society and the UT Chancellor’s Council.

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Kadison, Carol

Carol Kadison has lived in Austin for 38 years.  In that time, she has served on several boards including the boards of Congregation Beth Israel, the American Diabetes Association, Girl Scouts, and Planned Parenthood.  She has been married since 1972 and has two sons, Bret (1977) and Zak (1980). Bret lives in Austin and is an executive with Mitratech. Zak lives in West Hollywood, California and is a Producer with Blacklight Transmedia.

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Kadison, Douglas

Douglas Kadison graduated from the University of Wisconsin 1970 with a BBA in Finance. He then attended NYU, where he received an MBA. Since 1971, he has been in the commercial mortgage banking or commercial banking business. He moved to Austin in 1978 to work with Investors, Inc. He started United Austin Mortgage in 1984 and Horizon Bank & Trust in 1987 where he was Chairman, President and CEO. The company went public in 1995 and was sold to Compass Bank in 1997. He was area President for Compass in 1997 and 1998. He started Merchant Banking and Opportunity Funds in 1998 to present. Douglas and his wife Carol have been married since 1972 and have two sons. Have been actively involved or major supporter of the YMCA (co-Chairman), Habitat for Humanity (Fundraising Co-Chairman), JCCA Board member), AmericanYouthWorks (Board member), The100 Club (Board Member), Life member University of Wisconsin Alumni with endowed scholarship, Planned Parenthood.

 

Kelly, William (Bill)

William R. Kelly is a Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Criminology and Criminal Justice Research at the University of Texas at Austin.  He has taught and conducted research in criminology and criminal justice for over twenty-five years and has published extensively on a variety of justice matters. . He has written four books on reforming the American criminal justice system. Criminal Justice at the Crossroads: Transforming Crime and Punishment was published by Columbia University Press in May of 2015.  The Future of Crime and Punishment: Smart Policies for Reducing Crime and Saving Money was published by Rowman and Littlefield in July of 2016. From Retribution to Public Safety: Disruptive Innovation of American Criminal Justice was published by Rowman and Littlefield in June of 2017.  A fourth book on plea negotiation and criminal justice reform Confronting Underground Justice was written with Judge Robert Pitman. He is currently writing another book on reforming the criminal court system. He serves on the City of Austin Public Safety Commission and the Federal Magistrate Merit Selection Panel for the Western District of Texas.

 

Kemp, William F. “Bill”

William Franklin Kemp was born and reared in Austin, Texas.  He attended the University of Texas and was on the Cactus staff.  He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree with Honors and was elected to Beta Gamma Sigma.  After completing the NROTC, he entered the U.S. Navy on active duty in Athens, Georgia and New Orleans, Louisiana where he served with the Industrial Manager/Supervisor of Shipbuilding.  He continued to serve his country in the U. S. Naval Reserve until his retirement as a Lt. Commander.  He entered Tulane Law School in New Orleans, Louisiana and attended George Washington University Law School in Washington, D. C. before returning to the University of Texas Law School where he graduated.  He has practiced law in Texas for over fifty-eight years. The Austin Symphony Orchestra Society has been a focus of his interest, where he served as Legal Counsel for 46 years, and a member of the Austin Symphony Board of Directors, and former member of the Executive Committee since 1971.  In 1967, he, along with John G. Adams and J. Chrys Dougherty were charter organizers of the Knights of the Symphony---the men’s organization supporting the Austin Symphony Society.  He has been active on the Chancery of the Knights for over fifty years, serving both as Lord Chancellor VI and as King Brio XIV, and currently, Lord of the Privy Seal.  He served the Austin Bar Association’s Lawyer Referral Service as its founder and chairman.  He completed 22 years’ perfect attendance with the West Austin Rotary Club.  In 1964, he married Suzon Spiller at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Austin.  Following their marriage, he took his bride to Europe.  Today, he is the proud father of five (5) grown children and nine (9) grandchildren including a set of triplets born to his eldest daughter.

 

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