Four law school alumni elected to serve on UT Law School Foundationboard of trustees

June 2, 1997

AUSTIN, Texas — Four new members have been elected to the board oftrustees of The University of Texas Law School Foundation. Thefoundation was established in 1952 to supplement funding provided tothe UT School of Law by the Legislature and the University with privatefunds in support of legal education, legal research and the progress ofthe law. Donations to the foundation provide financial assistance todeserving students and are used to establish or assist professorshipsand scholarships at the law school.

Joining the 23-member board are

• John Castle, executive vice president of EDS Corporation, was graduatedfrom UT Austin with honors in 1964 and from the UT School of Law in1967. Castle serves on the executive council of EDS, where hisresponsibilities include legal affairs, corporate communications,community affairs, government affairs and public relations. He hasserved as president of the UT Law School Alumni Association andcurrently is a member of the American, Texas and Dallas barassociations and is a fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation.

• TomLoeffler, vice chairman of the board of regents of the University ofTexas System, received a bachelor of business administration degreefrom UT Austin in 1968 and a law degree from the UT School of Law in1971. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1979 to 1986and was a Texas gubernatorial candidate in 1986. A resident of SanAntonio, Loeffler is a partner in the national law firm of Arter &Hadden.

• Myra McDaniel, a former Texas secretary of state, is agraduate of the University of Pennsylvania and received a law degreefrom the UT School of Law in 1975. She has served as general counselto the governor, assistant special counsel to the Railroad Commissionof Texas and assistant attorney general and chief of the taxationdivision within the Attorney General's Office. She currently ismanaging partner in the law firm of Bickerstaff, Heath, Smiley, Pollan,Kever & McDaniel in Austin.

• John Newton, vice chairman of AmericanGeneral Corporation of Houston, received a bachelor of arts degree fromUT Austin in 1963 and a law degree from the UT School of Law in 1965. He served as president of the UT Ex-Student's Association in 1992 andreceived an award for distinguished service from the State Bar of Texasin 1975 and the Outstanding Young Texas Exes Award from UT in 1980. Newton served three terms in the Texas House of Representatives and wasappointed to the UT System Board of Regents in 1979, serving aschairman from 1983 to 1985.

"We are enormously encouraged by theaddition of these four new trustees, each a distinguished leader intheir professional lives and each offering new strengths to a boardthat has been the great engine for the law school's achievement ofexcellence," said M. Michael Sharlot, dean of the UT School of Law."With their help, we expect to remain among the best of America's lawschools, while implementing innovations that will enhance the educationwe provide our students and, thus, the quality of the services andleadership that they provide the state and nation."