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Cody Acree Class of 1994

Cody Acree, a senior equity research analyst for Drexel Hamilton, was named by TIPRANKS in March 2017 as one of the 25 top analysts in the technology sector who generated the highest returns to investors in 2016.

Posted 2017

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Ben Adams Class of 2000

Ben Adams was promoted to interactive editor at the Odessa American newspaper in October 2015.

Posted 2016

Michael Adeyemo Class of 2017

Michael Adeyemo was hired as coordinator of informal recreation at Sam Houston State University in the summer of 2017.

Posted 2017

Shane Adkins Class of 1993

Shane Adkins was named Secondary Teacher of the Year at the Iowa Park Chamber of Commerce Banquet in January 2016. He teaches at Iowa Park High School.

Posted 2016

Isabel Albritton Class of 2017

Isabel Albritton joined the news team at KARD/KTVE-TV in West Monroe, La., as a reporter in June 2019.

Posted 2019

Dr. Kim Alexander Class of 1976

Dr. Kim Alexander, superintendent of the Roscoe (Texas) Collegiate Independent School District, was recognized by Marquis Who’s Who Top Educators for his dedication, achievements and leadership in educational administration in August 2019.

Posted 2019

Ronny Alexander Class of 1974

Ronny Alexander (1974) was reappointed to another term on the Upper Colorado River Water Authority Board of Directors by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in August 2018.

Posted 2018

Alexandra Allard Class of 2010

Alexandra Allard was named head volleyball coach for Hastings College in Hastings, Neb., in May 2019.

Posted 2019

Cody Allen Class of 2007

Cody Allen, a special agent with the Texas Department of Public Safety, received the DPS’ William P. Clements Excellence Award for outstanding service in February 2017.

Posted 2017

Alix Allison Class of 2011

Alix D. Allison was hired by the Thompson & Knight LLP law firm in the firm’s Fort Worth office as an associate in the Trial Practice Group in July 2017.

Posted 2017

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Adrian Alonso Class of 2010

Adrian Alonso (2010) was named the new director of bands for the Palestine (Texas) Independent School District in May 2018.

Posted 2018

Dr. Clayton Alred Class of 1973

Dr. Clayton Alred (1973) announced his retirement in September 2017 after eight years as president of Eastern New Mexico University-Ruidoso.

Posted 2018

Tina Alvey Dale Class of 1991

Tina Alvey Dale was hired as the metro reporter for the Talk Business & Politics news magazine in Fort Smith, Ark., in November 2018.

Posted 2019

Jackie Anderson Class of 2006

Jackie Anderson was hired as the executive director of human resources at Praxis Packaging in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in February 2019.

Posted 2019

Carmen Antu-Montemayor Class of 1991

Carmen Antu-Montemayor was named 2016-17 Secondary Teacher of the Year for the San Angelo Independent School District in April 2017.

Posted 2017

Erin Armstrong Class of 1986

Eric Armstrong joined the newly rebranded National United Bank in Copperas Cove as president and loan officer in July 2017.

Posted 2017

Lauren Ashley Class of 2003

Lauren Ashley was hired as a diagnostician for the Katy (Texas) Independent School District in May 2019.

Posted 2019

Clint Askins Class of 2003

Clint Askins (2003) was named the new superintendent for the Miles (Texas) Independent School District in May 2018. His appointment was effective in June.

Posted 2018

Andrew Atterbury Class of 2012

Andrew Atterbury was hired as the education policy reporter for POLITICO Florida, an online news magazine dedicated to Florida politics and business, in October 2018.

Posted 2019

Shay Avants Class of 2006

Shay Avants was named the new head football coach and athletic director at Eden (Texas) High School. He held those same positions for the last 10 years at nearby Robert Lee High School.

Posted 2019

Rosa Avendaño Class of 1996 & 2004

Rosa Avendaño was named the new principal at Keyes Elementary School in the Irving Independent School District in June of 2015.

Posted 2015

Adrienna Bagley Class of 2015

Adrienne Bagley (2015) was welcomed into the International Nurses Association for her publication in the Worldwide Leaders in Healthcare in November 2017.

Posted 2018

Mark Baker Class of 1988

Mark Baker, assistant athletic director for the San Angelo Independent School District, was named the 2019 Region 2 Athletic Administrator of the Year by the Texas High School Athletic Directors Association in March 2019.

Posted 2019

Stephanie J. Baker Class of 1998

Stephanie J. Baker was appointed director of marketing for the Omni Barton Creek Resort & Spa in Austin in December 2018.

Posted 2019

Gary L. Banks Class of 1981

Gary L. Banks was appointed first associate judge of Child Protection Court for the Concho Valley in September 2015.

Posted 2016

Jason Bannowsky Class of 1993

Jason Bannowsky was named president of the Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers’ Association during the 104th Annual Convention in July 2019. He is a wool buyer for Lempriere USA Inc. and for SAMIL Pty in South Africa.

Posted 2019

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Brandi Barber Class of 2014

Brandi Barber has been named the first-ever head volleyball coach at Klondike High School. She graduated from ASU in May with a Bachelor of Science in teacher education.

A Sterling City native, Barber was a regular on the ASU Dean’s List and was a member of the Kappa Delta Pi international honor society for education.

Posted Fall 2014

Brandon Barker Class of 1987

Brandon Barker was named co-manager of First Financial Brokerage Services at First Financial Bank in Abilene in January 2017, along with fellow ASU alum Rick Howard.

Posted 2017

Dr. Mike Barrera Class of 1993

Dr. Mike Barrera (1993) was named the new superintendent of the Ben Bolt – Palito Blanco Independent School District in Ben Bolt, Texas, in August 2018.

Posted 2018

Meg Barrett Class of 2009 & 2012

Meg Barrett was named the head girls basketball and track coach and girls athletic coordinator at Coleman (Texas) High School in May 2019.

Posted 2019

Lori Barton Class of 1999 and 2005

Lori Barton (1999 & 2005), principal of Fort Concho Elementary School in San Angelo, was named the Rhosine Fleming Campus Administrator of the Year by the Texas School Counselor Association in January 2018. She was also named a 2018 Woman of Distinction by the Girl Scouts of Central Texas in March 2018.

Posted 2018

Jim Batchelor Class of 2016

Jim Batchelor was appointed by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to the State Independent Living Council in June 2019. A U.S. Army retiree, he is a member of the Texas Traumatic Brain Injury Council. He also serves with the Civil Air Patrol and as historian for American Legion Post 483.

Posted 2019

Nate Bayless Class of 2010

Nate Bayless (2010) was named vice president of lending services at First State Bank in Decatur in March 2018.

Posted 2018

Shawn Bearden Class of 2013

Shawn Bearden won second place in San Angelo’s 2016 Business Plan Competition and took home $10,000 in April 2016. His plan was for his new business, Concho Valley Tactical Supply.

Posted 2016

Claudia Becerra Class of 2009

Claudia Becerra was named the new principal of the Carver Learning Center in the San Angelo Independent School District in July 2019.

Posted 2019

Chris Beene Class of 1993

Chris Beene was named head girls track and field and cross country coach at Lubbock (Texas) Coronado High School in June 2019.

Posted 2019

Valerie Beesley Class of 2004

Valerie Beesley (2004) was hired as a public relations account supervisor at Bloom Communications in Austin in October 2017.

Posted 2018

James Berscheidt Class of 1990

James Berscheidt was appointed vice president for marketing and communications at the University of North Texas in May 2019.

Posted 2019

Blake Bien Class of 2009

Blake Bien (2009), an eighth-grade math teacher, won the SAISD Teacher of the Year Award for Glenn Middle School in May 2018.

Posted 2018

Casey Bills Class of 1991

Casey Bills (1991) was hired as the business manager for the Sweetwater (Texas) Independent School District in July 2018. She previously served as the business manager for the Merkel ISD.

Posted 2018

Rikke Black Class of 1993

Rikke Black was named the new principal at the San Angelo Central High School Freshman Campus in April 2019.

Posted 2019

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Larry Blair Class of 1968 & 1976

Larry Blair was named interim superintendent of the Mineral Wells Independent School District in March 2016.

Posted 2016

Wendy Boatright Class of 2002

Wendy Boatright (2002) took a job as a fifth-grade teacher at Mt. Eccles Elementary School in Cordova, Alaska, in July 2018.

Posted 2018

Lori Loomis Boies Class of 2006

Lori Loomis Boies, an instructor of biological sciences at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, was installed as the president of the Bexar County Medical Society Alliance in January 2017. She also serves as the vice president of communications for the Texas Medical Association Alliance.

Posted 2017

Whitney Bownds Class of 2003

Whitney Bowndswas promoted to loan officer at the Commercial Bank in Mason in January of 2015.

Posted 2015

Dr. Mark Boyle Class of 2000

Dr. Mark Boylewas named medical director of First Choice Emergency Room’s Houston-Jones Road facility in Houston in October of 2014.

Posted 2015

Colt Bradford Class of 2006

Colt Bradford (2006) was hired as the new football defensive coordinator and girls’ powerlifting coach at Bullard (Texas) High School in July 2018.

Posted 2018

Laura Brandenburg Class of 2007

Laura Brandenburg was named dean of the School of Languages and Literature at Wayland Baptist University in October 2016.

Posted 2017

Dr. Merl Brandon Class of 1992

Dr. Merl Brandon was named the new superintendent of the Stanton Independent School District in December 2016.

Posted 2017

Will Brewer Class of 2008

Will Brewer was hired as the new superintendent of the Stamford (Texas) Independent School District in the spring of 2019.

Posted 2019

Cody Bridges Class of 2012

Cody Bridges is the new Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service agriculture and natural resources agent for Mason County. He previously served as the AgriLife Extension agent in Schleicher County.

Bridges earned his bachelor’s degree in animal science/range and wildlife management at ASU in 2012. He also holds an associate degree in golf course and landscape technology from Western Texas College.

Posted Fall 2014

Lane Brinson Class of 1989

Lane Brinson (1989) was promoted to director of purchasing for the University of Texas at San Antonio in June 2018. He started his UTSA career as purchasing manager in 2007 and has also served as assistant and associate director of purchasing prior to his promotion.

Posted 2018

Jason Brock Class of 2008

Jason Brock was named head football coach at Charlotte (Texas) High School near San Antonio in June 2019.

Posted 2019

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Angela Brooks Class of 2000

Angela Brooks, owner of San Angelo Broadway Academy, was named one of San Angelo’s 2019 Women of Distinction by the Girl Scouts of Central Texas in March 2019.

Posted 2019

Dr. Mary Liz Brooks Class of 2002

Dr. Mary Liz Brooks, an assistant professor of media communication at West Texas A&M University, was selected for the Scripps Howard Foundation Visiting Professors in Media Ad Sales Program in the fall of 2018. The accompanying grant allowed her to study advertising sales that support social media and digital marketing for two weeks at the Scripps Corporate Headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Posted 2019

Cheryl Brown Class of 1979

Cheryl Brown was hired as senior vice president and internal auditor for Centennial Bank in Lubbock in September 2018.

Posted 2019

Drew Brown Class of 2014

Drew Brown (2014) was hired as a multimedia journalist at WGEM-TV in Quincy, Ill., in January 2018.

Posted 2018

Alexander Bryant Class of 2014

Alexander Bryant was profiled as a BE Modern Man by Black Enterprise magazine in May 2019. Bryant is the social media manager for ACM SIGGRAPH, one of the world’s largest computing societies.

Posted 2019

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Jessica Buren Class of 2012

Jessica Buren was recognized by Continental Who’s Who as a Pinnacle Professional in the field of Rehabilitation and Safety Training in August 2016. She is the office manager/accounts receivable at Reeves Rehab Inc. in San Angelo.

Posted 2016

Brad Burnett Class of 1986

Brad Burnett was named chief financial officer (CFO) for the City of Weatherford in November 2015.

Posted 2016

Yvonne Busenlehner Class of 2011

Yvonne Busenlehner was named the 2018-19 Teacher of the Year at San Angelo’s Carver Learning Center in April 2019.

Posted 2019

Debbie Bynum Class of 1987

Debbie Bynum was named the new professional development director for the Ector County Independent School District in Odessa in July 2017.

Posted 2017

Kirk Byrd Class of 2004

Kirk Byrd was named the new head coach and athletic director at Crane High School in April of 2015.

Posted 2015

Steve Byrns Class of 1978

Steve Byrns retired in September 2018 after 36 years with the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service. He previously worked as the agriculture writer for the San Angelo Standard-Times.

Posted 2019

Deborah Campbell Class of 1996

Deborah Campbell was named the 2017 Texas Secondary Teacher of the Year by the Texas Association of School Administrators.

Posted 2017

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James B. Campbell Class of 2006

James B. Campbell, director of Robert Massie Funeral Home in San Angelo, was named the 2016-17 Funeral Director of the Year by the West Texas Funeral Directors Association in June 2017.

Posted 2017

Alan Carlos Class of 2006

Alan Carlos was appointed assistant director of information technology for the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, in August 2019.

Posted 2019

Lindsay Carr Class of 2009 & 2011

Lindsay Carr was named the new principal at Belaire Elementary School in the San Angelo Independent School District in July 2016.

Posted 2016

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Justin Carrigan Class of 2002

Justin Carrigan was named the first-ever head football coach at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin in Odessa in January of 2015.

Posted 2015

Mike Carter Class of 1991

Mike Carter was named superintendent of the May Independent School District in September 2016.

Posted 2017

Creta L. “Spanky” Carter II Class of 1982

Creta L. “Spanky” Carter II (1982), county judge in Fannin County, Texas, won the Better Leader Award for Fannin County from the Texoma Council of Governments in September 2017.

Posted 2018

Colby Carthel Class of 2000

Colby Carthel was named the new head football coach at Stephen F. Austin State University in December 2018. He previously led Texas A&M-Commerce to the 2017 NCAA Division II national title in the midst of four straight playoff appearances.

Posted 2019

Horacio Casillas Class of 2014

Horacio Casillas was named the first-ever Artist-in-Residence at The Epic community center in Grand Prairie, Texas, in September 2018.

Posted 2019

Steve Castle Class of 1974

Steve Castle, owner of the Cowboys Resources energy company in Midland, Texas, became president of the Permian Basin International Oil Show in September 2018. Close to 75,000 people attended the show in October 2018.

Posted 2019

Harvey Castoreno Class of 2007

Harvey Castoreno was promoted to the position of compliance officer with First Financial Bankshares Inc. in Abilene, Texas, in June 2019.

Posted 2019

Isaac Castro Class of 1977

Isaac Castro was appointed to the Texas Judicial Compensation Commission by Gov. Greg Abbott in April 2017. The JCC is a body that recommends the salaries for justices and judges of the state Supreme Court, Court of Criminal Appeals, Courts of Appeals and state district courts.

Posted 2017

Sherri “Jaye” Chasteen Class of 2014

Sherri “Jaye” Chasteen was named the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service’s new 4-H youth development agent for Tom Green County in February 2016.

Posted 2016

Daniel Chavez Class of 2013

Daniel Chavez was hired as a senior vice president for the McKinney (Texas) Economic Development Corp. in May 2019. For the past four years, he had been a vice president for business development with the San Antonio Economic Development Foundation.

Posted 2019

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Morgan Chegwidden Class of 2005

Morgan Chegwidden was promoted to director of animal services for the City of San Angelo in June 2017. She had previously served as the city’s budget manager. She was also named a “20 Under 40” honoree by the San Angelo Standard-Times for 2016.

Posted 2017

Betsy Choate Class of 1986

Betsy Choate (1986), a sixth-grade teacher at Gilbert Intermediate School in Stephenville, was inducted into Tarleton State University’s Crystal Apple Society during a ceremony in May 2018. The Crystal Apple Society was formed by the TSU College of Education in 2012 to honor educators who have made a positive impact on the lives of students.

Posted 2018

Deok Hwan Choi Class of 2014

Deok Hwan Choi, an ASU international alum from Ulsan, South Korea, landed a job as a user experience designer at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Wash., in April 2016.

Posted 2016

Austin Clarkson Class of 1995

Austin Clarkson was named the 2016-17 Secondary School Teacher of the Year for the Kerrville Independent School District in June 2017.

Posted 2017

Rebecca Cline Class of 1998 & 2006

Rebecca Cline was named the new principal at Lincoln Middle School in the San Angelo Independent School District in July of 2015.

Posted 2015

Eric Cole Class of 1993

Eric Cole won national titles in the Weight Throw and Super Weight Throw events and placed second in the Shot Put, all in the 45-49 age bracket, at the 2019 U.S.A. Track & Field Masters Indoor Championships in Winston-Salem, N.C., in March 2019. Then in July 2019, Cole won national titles in the Shot Put, Discus, Hammer Throw and 35-Pound Weight Throw events and placed third in the Javelin Throw at the USATF Masters Outdoor Championships in Ames, Iowa. Cole is a former All-American thrower for the Rams.

Posted 2019

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Steven Cole Class of 1995

Dr. Steven Cole was named one of the “Best Immunologists in Dallas” by the KevsBest.com consumer services website in August 2019. Cole is an allergist at the Park Lane Allergy and Asthma Center.

Posted 2019

Dora Colvin Class of 2016

Dora Colvin (2016), director of student recruitment for Texas State Technical College’s South Texas Region, received a 2018 Chancellor’s Excellence Award from TSTC in March 2018. It’s the second such award for Colvin who also won in 2010.

Posted 2018

Gregory Conaway Class of 1998

Gregory Conaway was named vice president and chief accounting officer at Carizzo Oil & Gas Inc. in Houston in September of 2014.

Posted 2015

Rachel Conover Class of 2001

Rachel Conover (2001), a faculty member at Eastern New Mexico University, received a 2018 Teaching Excellence Award from the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development in April 2018.

Posted 2018

Rob Cook Class of 2002 & 2004

Rob Cook (2002 & 2004), pasture and range consultant for the Noble Research Institute, was named the Texas Section Society for Range Management’s 2017 Outstanding Young Range Professional at the organization’s annual meeting in October 2017.

Posted 2018

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Lorrie Coop Class of 1993

Lorrie Coop, the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service’s family and community health agent in Knox County, was named the 2018 Educator of the Year by the National Extension Association of Family and Consumer Sciences in October 2018.

Posted 2019

Dana Cooper Class of 2000

Dana Cooper, an associate professor of history at Stephen F. Austin State University, was featured in the documentary “Million Dollar Princesses” on the Smithsonian Channel that aired in January of 2015. She was also named to Nerdwallet.com’s list of “40 Under 40: Professors Who Inspire” for 2015 in March.

Posted 2015

Timothy Tait Cooper Class of 2015

Timothy Tait Cooper was named the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service agriculture and natural resources agent for Schleicher County in September 2015.

Posted 2016

Leslie Cope Class of 1995

Leslie Cope was elected to the Board of Directors of the Commercial Bank in Mason in March of 2015.

Posted 2015

Everett Corder Class of 2018

Everett Corder, assistant sports information director at Lubbock Christian University, was part of the LCU staff named the 2018-19 Scott Puryear Sports Information Department of the Year for the Heartland Conference in June 2019.

Posted 2019

Jeff Corean Class of 2013

Jeff Corean was named head football coach at Paint Rock High School in the summer of 2016.

Posted 2016

Benny Cox Class of 1975

Benny Cox, sheep and goat sales manager at Producer’s Livestock Auction in San Angelo, was named president of the American Sheep Industry Association in January 2019.

Posted 2019

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Ty Crooks Class of 2015

Ty Crooks was hired as Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service state sheep and goat assistant in October 2015. He is headquartered in San Angelo.

Posted 2016

Delia Cullins Class of 2002

Delia Cullins was promoted in February of 2015 to assistant vice president of operations at TexasBank in Brownwood.

Posted 2015

Jenelle Cunningham Class of 2019

Jenelle Cunningham was hired as an assistant women’s soccer coach at Florida International University in Miami in July 2019.

Posted 2019

Pam Cunningham Class of 1987

Pam Cunninghamwas named executive vice president of Southside Bank in Tyler in September of 2014.

Posted 2015

Eric Daniels Class of 2010

Eric Daniels (2010) was named the defensive coordinator at Briar Cliff University in Sioux City, Iowa, in December 2017.

Posted 2018

Kayla Davidson Class of 2004

Kayla Davidsonpublished a children’s book titled “The Ride” through Virtuous Books for Kids in February of 2015. She is also the author of “Daddy’s Little Squirrel.”

Posted 2015

Rachel Davis Class of 2004

Rachel Davis, a lawyer with the Haynes and Boone LLP international law firm, was promoted to the position of counsel in January 2019. Davis is a member of the Intellectual Property Practice Group in the Richardson, Texas, office of Haynes and Boone.

Posted 2019

Amy Dennis Class of 2008 & 2010

Amy Dennis was named director of the new West Texas Teacher Training Residency Program at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin in March 2016.

Posted 2016

Isaac Denson Class of 1998

Isaac Denson was named a multi-site pastor for the CrossRoads Fellowship regional church, as well as pastor of its new West Odessa (Texas) Campus, in the spring of 2019.

Posted 2019

Fred Dietz Class of 2008

Fred Dietz was hired as the new head football coach and athletic director at Coahoma High School in July of 2015.

Posted 2015

Michael Dietzel Class of 2001

Michael Dietzel and his wife, Becky, opened a new location of CPR Cell Phone Repair, the largest and fastest growing mobile repair franchise in North America, in Victoria, Texas, in April 2019.

Posted 2019

Marta Diffen Class of 1994

Marta Diffen was hired as the new director of development for Schreiner University in Kerrville in August 2017.

Posted 2017

Dr. Elaine Dispo Class of 2006

Dr. Elaine Dispo graduated with her Ph.D. in leadership from Our Lady of the Lake University in the fall of 2015.

Posted 2016

Derrick Drury Class of 2013

Derrick Drury has been named the new Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service agriculture and natural resources agent for Medina County. He previously served as an agricultural science teacher at Marion High School and Medina High School and as a farm manager at Fleming Livestock in San Angelo.

Drury earned his bachelor’s degree in agricultural science and leadership at ASU in 2013.

Posted Fall 2014

Dale Dunlap Class of 1994

Dale Dunlap was named the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Services District 3 administrator for the Rolling Plains region in January 2017.

Posted 2017

Dr. Jeffrey Durgin Class of 1997

Dr. Jeffrey Durgin was appointed the new owner of Medical Spa of Midland, a leading provider of medical facial aesthetics, in August 2017. Durgin is a cosmetic surgeon with over 10 years of experience as a surgeon and educator. He graduated summa cum laude from ASU and then went to medical school at the University of Texas Health Science Center.

Posted 2017

Tucker Durham Class of 2017

Tucker Durham (2017) was named the assistant superintendent for finance and operation for the Alpine (Texas) Independent School District in June 2018.

Posted 2018

Katharine Eagan Class of 1997

Katharine Eagan was named chief executive officer of the Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority (HART) in Tampa, Fla., by the company’s board of directors in November of 2014. In August of 2015, she was nominated for the U.S. White House “Champion of Change” program as an innovator in transportation for the future.

Posted 2015

Monica Ebert Class of 2015

Monica Ebert (2015) was hired as the national brand developer for BKB and Core Merino wool marketing and clothing companies in South Africa in March 2018.

Posted 2018

Steve Eggleston Class of 1986

Steve Eggleston was appointed city manager for Andrews, Texas, in September 2018.

Posted 2019

Chad Ellis Class of 2001

Chad Ellis was selected as the Society for Range Management’s 2015 Young Range Professional Award at the society’s annual meeting in February of 2015.

Posted 2015

Ben Ely Class of 2012

Ben Ely (2012) was hired as the new director of communications and publications for the international Delta Chi Fraternity based in Iowa City, Iowa, in August 2018.

Posted 2018

Delta Emerson Class of 1973

Delta Emerson was promoted to president of global shared services at Ryan, an award-winning global tax services firm based in Dallas, in December of 2014.

Posted 2015

David Etheredge Class of 1985

David Etheredge, professor of biology at South Plains College, received SPC’s 2014 Faculty Excellence Award for his efforts in teaching, supporting and inspiring students.

An SPC faculty member since 1988, Etheredge earned his bachelor’s degree in biology from ASU in 1985 and his master’s in biology from ASU in 1987. He also holds an associate degree from Western Texas College.

Posted Fall 2014

Chris Evans Class of 2001

Chris Evans was named the new head football coach at Wheeler High School, the Class 2A high school for Wheeler in the Texas panhandle, in June 2017. He left San Angelo Lake View High School after being on the Chiefs coaching staff since 2009.

Posted 2017

Darian Evans Class of 2017

Darian Evans was named the new head boys basketball coach at Sonora High School in West Texas in May 2019.

Posted 2019

Johnnie Fair Class of 2002

Johnnie Fair was named head football coach at Killeen Shoemaker High School in April 2016.

Posted 2016

Amanda J. Fawver Class of 2002

Amanda “A.J.” Fawver (2002) was named the new director of planning for the City of Lubbock in May 2018. She previously served as the director of planning for the City of Amarillo.

Posted 2018

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Quinda Feil-Duncan Class of 1994

Quinda Feil-Duncan was hired as the new executive director of the Concho Valley Workforce Development Board in November 2018.

Posted 2019

Sercan Fenerci Class of 2007

Sercan Fenerci was named the new head coach of the boys’ basketball team at Acton-Boxborough High School in Acton, Mass., in December 2019.

Posted 2019

Mariah Fernandez Class of 2017

Mariah Fernandez (2017) was hired as a weekend anchor/reporter at San Angelo’s NBC affiliate, KSAN-TV, in November 2017.

Posted 2018

Tristan Fielder Class of 2018

Tristan Fielder (2018) was one of only eight students in his class of 220 at the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano-Long School of Medicine in San Antonio to be named a 2018 Long Scholar. As a Long Scholar, he will have all his tuition and fees paid in full for the entirety of his four-year medical degree.

Posted 2018

Joshua Fielek Class of 1988

Joshua Fielek joined Shaw Systems in Richmond, Va., as a software architect in September 2018.

Posted 2019

David Finn Class of 1981

David Finn (1981) was appointed as the first-ever vice president of strategic innovation for CynergisTek, a leading health care cybersecurity and information management company, in October 2017.

Posted 2018

Stacy Fischer Class of 2011

Stacy Fischer was named 2018-19 Teacher of the Year at San Angelo’s Bowie Elementary School and was also named the San Angelo Independent School District’s 2018-19 Elementary Teacher of the Year in April 2019. She was then named Texas Region 15 Elementary Teacher of the Year in July 2019.

Posted 2019

Kent Flanagan Class of 1968

Kent Flanagan, a long-time journalist for the Associated Press and Shelbyville (Tenn.) Times-Gazette, was elected in August of 2015 to the Tennessee Journalism Hall of Fame.

Posted 2015

Gena Fleming Class of 2006

Gena Fleming was named the new principal at Camacho Elementary School in the Leander Independent School District just north of Austin in June 2017.

Posted 2017

Anthony Fletcher Class of 1999 & 2001

Anthony Fletcher, head coach of the Eastfield College Harvesters men’s basketball team, recorded his 300th career victory when his team beat the Cedar Valley Suns, 112-76, in January 2019.

Posted 2019

Darius Flowers Class of 2015

Darius Flowers was named the new principal at San Angelo’s Bowie Elementary School in June 2019. He previously served as assistant principal at San Angelo Lake View High School.

Posted 2019

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Brice Foster Class of 2002

Brice Foster was named vice president of First United Bank in Lubbock in January 2016.

Posted 2016

Sam Fowler Class of 2017

Sam Fowler was hired as the sports editor of the Pleasanton (Texas) Express in July 2019.

Posted 2019

Wayne T. Franke Class of 1972

Wayne T. Franke received an Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award from the Marquis Who’s Who organization in November 2018.

Posted 2019

Dr. Stephanie Free Class of 2002

Dr. Stephanie Free was named executive director of federal and state programs for the San Angelo Independent School District in June 2019. She previously served as SAISD executive director of special programs.

Posted 2019

Grant Freeman Class of 2006

Grant Freeman was named the head football coach at Wichita Falls High School in April 2017.

Posted 2017

Kyle Freeman Class of 1990

Kyle Freeman was named head football coach and athletic director at Ozona High School in April 2016.

Posted 2016

Jennifer Frias Class of 2014 & 2017

Jennifer Frias was named the new assistant director of student activities at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, in January 2019.

Posted 2019

Judge E. Scott Frost Class of 1984

Judge E. Scott Frost was nominated by President Obama to serve on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas in March 2016. He has served as a magistrate judge for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas since 2011. 

Posted 2016

Callie Fuchs Class of 2013

Callie Fuchs was named the 2018-19 Teacher of the Year at San Angelo’s Alta Loma Elementary School in April 2019.

Posted 2019