Advisory Council
Val Beard
County Judge, Brewster
County
Valarie Bristol
Former Director
of External Affairs, The Nature Conservancy
Denise Davis
Parliamentatian, Texas House of Representatives
John Fainter
President, Association
of Electric Companies of Texas
Joseph Hart
Mediator/Arbitrator,
Former Travis Co. District Judge
James R. Hine
Former Commissioner,
Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services
Robert J. Huston
Consultant, Former
Chair, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Karen Johnson
President/CEO, United
Way of Texas
Representative Lois Kolkhorst
Texas
House of Representatives, District 13
Cyndi Taylor Krier
Consultant,
Former University of Texas System Regent
Barry McBee
Vice Chancellor for
Governmental Relations, The University of Texas
System
Steve Nelson
President, SureTec
Information Systems, Inc.
Karen Norris
Executive Director,
Texas Association of Counties
Honorable Harriet O’Neill
Justice,
Texas Supreme Court
Shelia Bailey Taylor
Former Chief
Administrative Law Judge, State Office of Administrative
Hearings
Senator Jeff Wentworth
Texas Senate,
District 25
Luis Wilmot
Vice President of
Community Development & Legal Counsel, Texas
Dow Employees Credit Union
