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W. Magness

W. Bonham Magness Class of 1952

Dr. W. Bonham Magness, clinical professor at the University of Texas School of Dentistry (UTSD) in Houston, has been honored by the Orthodontic Foundation, which donated $100,000 to UTSD to create the W. Bonham Magness Endowed Professorship in Orthdontics.

After earning his D.D.S. from UTSD in 1956, Magness spent two years in the U.S. Air Force before returning to the UTSD graduate orthodontic program. He graduated again in 1960 and immediately joined the UTSD faculty.

Magness completed his pre-dental education at San Angelo College in 1952.

Posted Fall 2014
Grant Teaff

Grant Teaff Class of 1952

Grant Teaff was named the recipient of the 2016 National Football Foundation Outstanding Contribution to Amateur Football Award in May 2016. He will be honored at the 59^th NFF Annual Awards Dinner on Dec. 6 at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City.

Posted 2016
Kent Flanagan

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
Jim Slaughter

Jim Slaughter Class of 1968

Jim Slaughter retired in July of 2015 after a long career in Texas high school athletics. He spent the last four years as athletic director for the San Angelo Independent School District.

Posted 2015
Larry Blair

Larry Blair Class of 1968 & 1976

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

Posted 2016
Edward Walraven

Edward Walraven Class of 1970

Edward Walraven retired following the spring 2017 semester after 43 years at Texas A&M University, first as a public relations writer and then a member of the journalism faculty.

Posted 2017
Ray Mayo

Ray Mayo Class of 1970

Ray Mayo retired in December 2018 after 28 years as county judge of Mitchell County (Texas).

Posted 2019
William Hood

William Hood Class of 1970

William Hood (1970) 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
Charlie Ramirez

Charlie Ramirez Class of 1972

Charlie Ramirez retired in 2015 after 40 years with the Texas Department of Public Safety.

Posted 2015
Wayne Franke

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
Dorman Moore

Dorman Moore Class of 1972

Dorman Moore retired from the faculty at Sul Ross State University in Alpine, Texas, following the spring 2019 semester.

Posted 2019
Morris Overstreet

Morris Overstreet Class of 1972

Morris Overstreet (1972), former judge on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals and the first African-American elected to a state-wide office in Texas, was the keynote speaker for the Amarillo Branch NAACP’s Dr. R.W. Jones Freedom Fund Banquet in Amarillo in November 2017.

Posted 2018
Eva Horton

Eva Horton Class of 1972

Eva Horton (1972) was reappointed to another term on the Upper Colorado River Water Authority Board of Directors and named the new chairperson by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in August 2018.

Posted 2018
Delta Emerson

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
Arnold Garcia Jr.

Arnold Garcia Jr. Class of 1973

Arnold Garcia Jr. joined Crosswind Media and Public Relations as a senior advisor in June of 2015.

Posted 2015
Dr. Clayton Alred

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
Steve Castle

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
Ronny Alexander

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
Benny Cox

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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Virgie Gerald

Virgie Gerald Class of 1975

Virgie Gerald (1975) was appointed to the Brownwood/Brown County Child Welfare Board in August 2018.

Posted 2018
Mike McKay

Mike McKay Class of 1975

Mike McKay was named co-chair of the Legislative and Advocacy Committee for the Coalition for Aging, LGBT – North Texas in April 2016. He is also southwest regional manager for the Peace Corps.

Posted 2016
Dr. Kim Alexander

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
Walter Juliff

Walter Juliff Class of 1976

Walter Juliff was hired as senior advisor to the general manager of the NFL’s Oakland Raiders in May 2019. He served the previous 31 years as a scout in the Dallas Cowboys’ personnel department.

Posted 2019
Isaac Castro

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
Dr. David Umphress

Dr. David Umphress Class of 1977

Dr. David Umphress (1977), COLSA Corporation Cyber Security and Information Assurance Professor in Auburn University’s Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, was named director of the Auburn Cyber Research Center in November 2017.

Posted 2018
Retired Air Force Lt. Gen Ronnie Hawkins

Retired Air Force Lt. Gen Ronnie Hawkins Class of 1977

Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Ronnie Hawkins (1977) received the Distinguished Citizen Award from the Texas Southwest Council of the Boy Scouts of America in March 2018.

Posted 2018
Dr. Les Plagens

Dr. Les Plagens Class of 1977 & 1979

Dr. Les Plagens in July of 2015 took over the role of director of instructional support services at Texas State Technical College in Brownwood.

Posted 2015
Drew Montgomery

Drew Montgomery Class of 1978

Drew Montgomery, who played on the Rams’ 1978 NAIA National Championship football team, was named president of the Madisonville High School Alumni Association in 2015.

Posted 2015
Steve Byrns

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
Joe Muñoz

Joe Muñoz Class of 1978

Joe Muñoz (1978), ASU’s general council and senior executive assistant to the president, was featured as a Pro Bono Champion in the April 2018 edition of the Texas Bar Journal.

Posted 2018
Michele Stevens

Michele Stevens Class of 1978

Michele Stevens (1978) was promoted to executive vice president of marketing and advertising at First Financial Bankshares Inc. in Abilene in March 2018.

Posted 2018
Dr. Brian Shannon

Dr. Brian Shannon Class of 1979

Dr. Brian Shannon, the Charles “Tex” Thornton Professor of Law at Texas Tech University, was named a Horn Professor by the TTUS Board of Regents in March of 2015. The professorship recognizes scholarly achievement and outstanding service to Texas Tech.

Posted 2015
Victor Pyle

Victor Pyle Class of 1979

Victor Pyle was named head cross country coach at Millsap High School in September 2016.

Posted 2017
Cheryl Brown

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
Vance Jones

Vance Jones Class of 1979

Vance Jones (1979) was elected executive vice president and manager of First Financial Bank’s River Oaks branch in February 2018.

Posted 2018
Kenneth Gully

Kenneth Gully Class of 1979

Kenneth Gully was named Conservation Farmer of the Year by the Tom Green County Soil and Water Conservation District and runner-up Conservation Farmer of the Year for Natural Resources Conservation Service Administrative Zone 2 – in March 2016.

Posted 2016
Dr. Mark McFarland

Dr. Mark McFarland Class of 1980

Dr. Mark McFarland retired on Aug. 31, 2015, after 35 years with the Texas A&M University System. His final posts were Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service soil fertility specialist in College Station, Extension Service water quality coordinator, and associate head of the Soil and Crop Sciences Department at Texas A&M.

Posted 2015
Mike Millegan

Mike Millegan Class of 1980

Mike Millegan was named to the Board of Directors of Portland General Electric in Oregon in January 2019. PGE serves approximately 885,000 energy customers in 51 cities.

Posted 2019

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Lloyd “Dee” Kirkpatrick

Lloyd “Dee” Kirkpatrick Class of 1980

Lloyd “Dee” Kirkpatrick was appointed the new road administrator for Uvalde County, Texas, by the Uvalde County Commissioners Court in February 2019.

Posted 2019
Cindy Musick

Cindy Musick Class of 1980

Cindy Musick (1980) was elected vice president and controller for Citizens National Bank in Brownwood during the annual shareholders meeting in March 2018.

Posted 2018
Saundra Paschal

Saundra Paschal Class of 1980

Saundra Paschal, a mathematics teacher at San Angelo Lake View High School, was inducted into the International Association of Top Professionals Hall of Fame in March 2019. She was also named the IATP’s 2019 Top Educator of the Year and 2019 Empowered Woman of the Year.

Posted 2019

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Dr. Brian May

Dr. Brian J. May Class of 1980 & 1982

Dr. Brian J. May, president of ASU, was appointed to the NCAA Division II Presidents Council in August 2017.

Posted 2017
Deb Hollingsworth

Deb Hollingsworth Class of 1981

Deb Hollingsworth was named principal of Jackson Elementary School in the Abilene Independent School District in May 2016.

Posted 2016
Edwin Miranda

Edwin Miranda Class of 1981

Edwin Miranda (1981) was named vice president of quality for Cytovance Biologics Inc. in January 2018. Cytovance Biologics is a leading biopharmaceutical contract manufacturer of mammalian and microbial biologics.

Posted 2018

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Doug Kuhlmann

Doug Kuhlmann Class of 1981

Doug Kuhlmann resigned as head football coach and athletic director at San Angelo Lake View High School to take an assistant coach position at Class 6A Austin Westlake High School in July 2017.

Posted 2017
David Finn

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
Gary Banks

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
Judy Parker

Judy Parker Class of 1982

Judy Parker, a county court-at-law judge in Lubbock County, was appointed to the 7th Court of Appeals by Gov. Greg Abbott in August 2017.

Posted 2017
Creta Carter II

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
Ricky Williams

Ricky Williams Class of 1982

Ricky Williams (1982) was named Administrator of the Year by the New Mexico Superintendents Association in August 2018. He currently serves as superintendent of Hagerman Municipal Schools in Hageman, N.M.

Posted 2018
Dr. J. Moring

Dr. J. Bruce Moring Class of 1982 & 1986

Dr. J. Bruce Moring, an assistant professor of biology at East Central University in Oklahoma, was one of five ECU faculty members chosen for inaugural Summer Research Opportunity Awards for the Oka’ Institute. He participated in an eight-week sessions as a research professor at the institute.

Posted 2017
Petra (Pat) Trevino

Petra (Pat) Trevino Class of 1983

Petra (Pat) Trevino was named the customer service manager for the City of San Angelo Water Utilities Department in April 2017.

Posted 2017
Colleen Gilchrist

Colleen Gilchrist Class of 1983

Colleen Gilchrist (1983) received a Mirabeau B. Lamar Award in April 2018 from the Salado Masonic Lodge as the 2018 Teacher of the Year for the Salado Intermediate School in Salado, where she is a sixth-grade math teacher.

Posted 2018
Linda Stephens

Linda Stephens Class of 1983, 1991 & 2001

Linda Stephens was named chief nursing officer at Memorial Hermann Katy Hospital in Katy in January of 2015.

Posted 2015
Adm. Eric Young

Adm. Eric Coy Young Class of 1984

U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Eric Coy Young received his second star and assumed command of the Navy Reserve Forces Command in Norfolk, Va., in November of 2014. He had served as deputy chief of the Navy Reserves since 2012.

Posted 2015
David Mullins

David Mullins Class of 1984

David Mullins was named general manager of the WFSU public TV and radio station at Florida State University in October 2015.

Posted 2016
Darrell Hagemann

Darrell Hagemann Class of 1984

Darrell Hagemann recorded his 500^th win as head boys basketball coach at Round Rock McNeil High School in the fall of 2015.

Posted 2016
Wallace Nichols

Wallace R. Nichols Class of 1984

Wallace R. Nichols, president of W.R. Nichols Law in Scottsdale, Ariz., was recognized as a Distinguished Professional by Expert Network, an invitation-only professional network service, in December 2015.

Posted 2016
Landel Hobbs

Landel C. Hobbs Class of 1984

Landel C. Hobbs has been appointed to the Board of Directors of ValueVision Media Inc., a multichannel electronic retailer. He will serve on the Audit Committee and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.

Currently chief executive officer of the LCH Enterprises consulting firm, Hobbs previously served as chief operating officer of Time Warner Cable and also held executive positions at AOL Tim Warner, Turner Broadcasting System and CSPAN.

Hobbs earned his Bachelor of Business Administration from ASU in 1984.

Posted Fall 2014
Shari Riley

Shari Riley Class of 1984

Shari Riley was hired to fill the new position of Fine Arts Specialist for Elementary in the Ector County Independent School District in Odessa, Texas, in July 2019.

Posted 2019
Judge E. Frost

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
Norma Jennings

Norma Jennings Class of 1984

Norma Jennings published her second romantic mystery novel, “Passenger from Greece,” in October 2015 and was named a winner in the 50 Great Writers You Should Be Reading Book Awards in December 2015.

Posted 2016
Stephen Schwartz

Stephen Schwartz Class of 1984

Stephen Schwartz (1984) was named the Kerrville Daily Times 2017 Bill Dozier Citizen of the Year at the 95^th annual Kerrville Chamber of Commerce Awards Banquet in the fall of 2017.

Posted 2018
Alvin New

Alvin New Class of 1984

Alvin New (1984) was appointed to the Texas Transportation Commission by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in February 2018. The five-member Texas Transportation Commission oversees the Texas Department of Transportation to ensure the department best serves Texas taxpayers. New is a former San Angelo mayor and former CEO of Town & Country Food Stores.

Posted 2018
Alan “A.J.” Moore

Alan “A.J.” Moore Class of 1985

Alan “A.J.” Moore was named CEO of the San Angelo YMCA in March 2017. Moore has been at the YMCA since 2004 and also served as an assistant track and field coach at ASU from 2000-04.

Posted 2017
David Etheredge

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
Sherrel Mathews

Sherrel Mathews Class of 1985

Sherrel Mathews was hired as the director of community engagement for 2INgage in Abilene, Texas, in October 2018. 2INgage was selected by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services as the contractor to oversee services for children in foster care in Region II, which includes Abilene, Brownwood and Wichita Falls.

Posted 2019
Chakkrit Parapuntakul

Chakkrit Parapuntakul Class of 1985

Chakkrit Parapuntakul was appointed the new director of RS Public Company Limited in Thailand in July 2019.

Posted 2019
Rev. Darren Skinner

Rev. Darren L. Skinner Class of 1985

Rev. Darren L. Skinner was appointed as the new pastor at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church in Las Cruces, N.M., in July 2016.

Posted 2016
Laura Keith

Laura Lynn Keith Class of 1986

Laura Lynn Keith was inducted into the International Nurses Association concurrent with her publication in the Worldwide Leaders in Nursing magazine in July 2016. She is an RN at Home Health Services of MKM in Mason.

Posted 2016
Betsy Choate

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
Brad Burnett

Brad Burnett Class of 1986

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

Posted 2016
Barry Kniffen

Barry Kniffen Class of 1986

Barry Kniffen was inducted into the Texas Tennis Coaches Association Hall of Fame in December 2015.

Posted 2016
Martha Langston

Martha Anne Langston Class of 1986

Martha Anne Langston was honored in August of 2015 by Capital Who’s Who Branding for her distinguished accomplishments and contributions in the field of religious service. Langston is the secretary and ministry assistant at Belmore Baptist Church in San Angelo.

Posted 2015
Kerry Therwhanger

Kerry Therwhanger Class of 1986

Kerry Therwhanger was hired as head football coach and athletic director for the Timpson Independent School District in January 2016.

Posted 2016
Jessica Robledo

Jessica Robledo Class of 1986

Jessica Robledo was sworn in as the new police chief of Pflugerville in February 2017. She previously served as the only female assistant chief in the Austin Police Department.

Posted 2017
Mitchell Perry

Mitchell G. Perry Class of 1986

Mitchell G. Perry was elected in July of 2015 as the 2015-16 secretary of the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Posted 2015
Erin Armstrong

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
Candis Rodgers Hicks

Candis Rodgers Hicks Class of 1986

Candis Rodgers Hicks, a longtime local educator and community volunteer, was named one of San Angelo’s 2019 Women of Distinction by the Girl Scouts of Central Texas in March 2019.

Posted 2019

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Lynne Springer

Lynne Springer Class of 1986

Lynne Springer was named Teacher of the Year at San Angelo’s Santa Rita Elementary School in April 2019.

Posted 2019
Mark McCanlies

Mark McCanlies Class of 1986

Mark McCanlies was appointed the new principal of Richland High School in the Birdville (Texas) Independent School District in May 2019.

Posted 2019
Steve Eggleston

Steve Eggleston Class of 1986

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

Posted 2019
Jeffrey McCormick

Jeffrey McCormick Class of 1986

Jeffrey McCormick (1986) was named to the Board of Trustees for the San Angelo Health Foundation in May 2018. He is a managing partner at the Oliver, Rainey and Wojtek LLP accounting firm in San Angelo.

Posted 2018
Kyle Longley

Kyle Longley Class of 1987

Kyle Longley (1987) was named director of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library in Austin in July 2018. He is just the fifth director of the LBJ Library since it opened in 1968.

Posted 2018
Mike Hayworth

Mike Hayworth Class of 1987

Mike Haworth was promoted to police chief of the Pinellas Park Police Department in Florida in April of 2015.

Posted 2015
Lonnie Hise

Lonnie Hise Class of 1987

Lonnie Hise was hired as the new superintendent for the Windthorst Independent School District near Wichita Falls in April 2017.

Posted 2017
Pam Cunningham

Pam Cunningham Class of 1987

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

Posted 2015
Ricky Peacock

Ricky Peacock Class of 1987

Ricky Peacock was named head football coach and athletic director at McCamey High School in May of 2015.

Posted 2015
Robert Hunter

Robert P. Hunter Class of 1987

Dr. Robert P. Hunter has been appointed as chief scientific officer of Parnell Inc., a pharmaceutical company that develops and manufactures innovative animal health solutions. He will direct global sales and marketing teams in 14 countries.

Prior to joining Parnell, Hunter spent 10 years as a senior research and development director for Elanco, a division of Eli Lilly and Co. He has also taught veterinary pharmacology at Kansas State University and Louisiana State University, and previously worked in the animal health division of Pfizer Inc.

Hunter earned his ASU bachelor’s degree in animal science in 1987. He also holds a master’s degree from Texas A&M University and a doctorate from Louisiana State.

Posted Fall 2014
Brandon Barker

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
Debbie Bynum

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
Karry Owens

Karry Owens Class of 1987

Karry Owens came out of retirement to be named head football coach at Robert Lee (Texas) High School in May 2019.

Posted 2019
Paul Michalewicz

Paul Michalewicz Class of 1987 & 2006

Paul Michalewicz was hired in June of 2015 as the new superintendent for the Florence Independent School District.

Posted 2015
Leroy Morales

Leroy Morales Class of 1988

Leroy Morales (1988) was hired as the new executive director of human resources for the Huntsville Independent School District in April 2018. He previously held the same position in the Bryan ISD.

Posted 2018
Tim Seymore

Tim Seymore Class of 1988

Tim Seymore (1988), the superintendent of the Breckenridge Independent School District, was nominated for Texas Association of School Board’s Superintendent of the Year Award in July 2017.

Posted 2018
Dr. Judi Whitis

Dr. Judi Whitis Class of 1988

Dr. Judi Whitis was named superintendent of the Decatur Independent School District in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex in June 2017. She previously served as superintendent of the Valley Mills ISD near Waco.

Posted 2017
Joshua Fielek

Joshua Fielek Class of 1988

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

Posted 2019
Mark Baker

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
Dr. Kevin Spiller

Dr. Kevin Spiller Class of 1988

Dr. Kevin Spiller was hired as the new head football coach at Trinity Christian School in Lubbock, Texas, in March 2019.

Posted 2019
Lane Brinson

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
Michael Rickey

Michael E. Rickey Class of 1989

Michael E. Rickey (1989) was named senior manager of Honda Marine in April 2018. In that capacity, he oversees total sales, operations and application engineering activities for the U.S. region.

Posted 2018
Steven Hall

Steven Jason Hall Class of 1989

Steven Jason Hall was elected chief financial officer of Behringer Harvard Opportunity REIT II Inc. by the company’s board of directors in October of 2014.

Posted 2015
Randy Penson

Randy Penson Class of 1989

Randy Pensonwas named the assistant director for global safety and risk management in the Global Education Office at Virginia Tech University in July of 2015.

Posted 2015
Tony Lombardi

Tony Lombardi Class of 1989

Tony Lombardi, a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel, was hired as the new director of the Gillespie County Airport in Fredericksburg, Texas, in March 2017.

Posted 2017
Lane Porter

Lane Porter Class of 1989

Lane Porterwas named president of Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers Association at the organization’s 100^th anniversary celebration in July of 2015 in Kerrville.

Posted 2015
Heather Tessmer

Heather Tessmer Class of 1989

Heather Tessmer was named a 2014 Outstanding Lawyer by the San Antonio Business Journal and was honored at a ceremony in November of 2014.

Posted 2015
Richy Womack

Richy Womack Class of 1989

Richy Womack was elected to the Board of Directors of City National Bank in Colorado City in January of 2015.

Posted 2015
Cheryl Fuller

Cheryl A. Fuller Class of 1989

Cheryl A. Fuller has been appointed by Texas Gov. Rick Perry to the Rehabilitation Council of Texas, where she will advocate in the vocational rehabilitation process for people with disabilities.

An Austin resident, Fuller is assistant commissioner of the Texas Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services (DARS) Division for Rehabilitative Services and a past director of the Texas Workforce Investment Council.

Fuller received her ASU bachelor’s degree in 1989.

Posted Fall 2014
Jaime Limas

Jaime Limas Class of 1989

Jaime Limas was named district executive for the Buffalo Mountain District of the Texas Trails Boy Scout Council in November 2016.

Posted 2017
Carolyn Mullican

Carolyn Mullican Class of 1989

Carolyn Mullican, a teacher at East Ridge Elementary School in Sweetwater, was named the Region 14 Elementary Teacher of the Year in August 2017.

Posted 2017
Dan Vera

Dan Vera Class of 1989

Dan Vera was hired as director of human resources for the Manor Independent School District just north of Austin in March 2017.

Posted 2017
Tommy Hudson

Tommy T. Hudson Class of 1989

Tommy T. Hudson retired as deputy city manager of the City of Midland in February 2017 after having served in Midland city government since 1994.

Posted 2017
John Taylor

John Taylor Class of 1989

John Taylor signed a three-year contract as the new superintendent of the Bluff Dale (Texas) Independent School District in February 2019.

Posted 2019
Rene Valeriano

Rene Valeriano Class of 1989 & 1994

Rene Valeriano was named the new principal at Reagan County High School in Big Lake, Texas, in May 2019.

Posted 2019
Kim Spicer

Kim Spicer Class of 1989 & 1995

Kim Spicerwas named the new assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction for the Wylie Independent School District in August of 2015.

Posted 2015
Dr. Ryder Warren

Dr. Ryder Warren Class of 1990

Dr. Ryder Warren was named the new superintendent of the Northwest Independent School District in the Fort Worth area in June 2016. He had served the last six years as superintendent of the Midland ISD.

Posted 2016
Michael Schooler

Michael Schooler Class of 1990

Michael Schooler was named a 2015 National Distinguished Principal by the National Association of Elementary School Principals in September 2015. He is currently the principal of the U.S. State Department-assisted International Community School of Addis Ababa in Ethiopia.

Posted 2016
Jenny McSherry

Jenny McSherry Class of 1990

Jerry McSherry (1990) was named the new head girls basketball coach at Ballinger High School in April 2018.

Posted 2018
Aaron Hargett

Aaron Hargett Class of 1990

Aaron Hargett (1990) was named executive director of the Baptist Retirement Community senior living center in San Angelo in September 2017.

Posted 2018
Julie Raymond

Julie Raymond Class of 1990

Julie Raymond (1990), former San Angelo teacher and now co-owner of Art in Uncommon Places, was named a 2018 Woman of Distinction by the Girl Scouts of Central Texas in March 2018.

Posted 2018
Kyle Freeman

Kyle Freeman Class of 1990

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

Posted 2016
James Berscheidt

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
Casey Bills

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
Col. Michael Schultz

Col. Michael Schultz Class of 1991

Col. Michael Schultz (1991) took command of the 926^th Wing, a U.S. Air Force Reserve associate unit to the Air Force Warfare Center at Nellis AFB in Nevada, during a change of command ceremony in October 2017.

Posted 2018
Derek Smith

Derek Smith Class of 1991

Derek Smith was hired as an assistant professor of chemistry at Howard Payne University in September 2015.

Posted 2016
Carmen Antu-Montemayor

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
Jack Nowlin

Jack Nowlin Class of 1991

Dr. Jack Nowlin was named the new dean of the Texas Tech University School of Law in June 2017. He previously served as the senior associate dean, professor of law and Jessie D. Puckett Jr. Lecturer at the University of Mississippi School of Law.

Posted 2017
Mike Carter

Mike Carter Class of 1991

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

Posted 2017
Tina Alvey Dale

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
James Reid

James Reid Class of 1991 & 1993

James Reid was named Angelo State University director of athletics in June 2016.

Posted 2016
Jill Ratcliffe

Jill Ratcliffe Class of 1992

Jill Ratcliffe (1992) was promoted to manager of the San Angelo West Branch of the Tom Green County Library in August 2018.

Posted 2018
Col (Ret.) Carl Jones

Col (Ret.) Carl Jones Class of 1992

Col. (Ret.) Carl Jones (1992) joined the Department of Defense and Intelligence Programs team at Lentech Inc. as senior director and strategic advisor to Air Force Multi-Domain Command and Control in February 2018. Jones recently retired from the U.S. Air Force after a 25-year career. His final assignment was as the Nuclear Operations analyst in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation. He was also named ASU’s 2017 Distinguished ROTC Alumnus

Posted 2018
Dr. Shivraj Sohur

Dr. Shivraj Sohur Class of 1992

Dr. Shivraj Sohur (1992) launched the nonprofit Global Foundation for Community Health, based in his native Mauritius, in January 2018. The GFCH is dedicated to raising funds to help curb chronic non-communicable diseases – related preventable conditions of type II diabetes, stroke and cardiovascular diseases. In July 2018, Sohur was selected to receive the 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award from the Alpha Chi National College Honor Society.

Posted 2018
Donna King

Donna King Class of 1992

Donna King was appointed judge of the 26^th Judicial District of Texas in Williamson County by Gov. Rick Perry in October of 2014.

Posted 2015
Lucy Snyder

Lucy Snyder Class of 1992

Lucy Snyder received two Bram Stoker Awards from the Horror Writers Association in May of 2015 at the World Horror Convention in Atlanta. The Stoker Award is the highest honor given by the HWA, and Snyder has now won four Stoker Awards for her writing.

Posted 2015
Amy McDaniel

Amy McDaniel Class of 1992

Amy McDaniel, a former sports editor for the ASU Rambouillet yearbook and Ram Page campus newspaper, was named the Texas Girls Coaches Association Division I Sports Writer of the Year in April 2017. Amy is a sports writer for the San Angelo Standard-Times.

Posted 2017
Del Van Cox

Del Van Cox Class of 1992

Del Van Cox was promoted to head football coach and athletic director at Abilene High School in March of 2015.

Posted 2015
Juan Villarreal

Juan Villarreal Class of 1992

Juan Villarrealwas named the principal of Gunn Junior High School in Arlington in December of 2014.

Posted 2015
Dr. Merl Brandon

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
Shane Adkins

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
Monty Gibson

Monty Gibson Class of 1993

Monty Gibson was named a Master Strength and Conditioning Coach by the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association in May 2016. He is a strength and conditioning coach at Texas A&M University.

Posted 2016
Dawn Smith

Dawn Smith Class of 1993

Dawn Smith was selected as a 2016 New York State Senate “Woman of Distinction” by Sen. Tom O’Mara on May 2016. Smith is the transition and care management program manager at the Bath VA Medical Center.

Posted 2016
Dr. Mike Barrera

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
John Mayo

John Mayo Class of 1993

John Mayo (1993) was hired as the new director of bands at Odessa, Texas, High School in July 2018.

Posted 2018
Rachel Long

Rachel Long Class of 1993

Rachel Long (1993) was named the new principal at Coronado Middle School in Plainview, Texas, on June 2018.

Posted 2018
Steven Parker

Steven Parker Class of 1993

Steven Parker (1993), principal at Grandfalls-Royalty Schools in Grandfalls, Texas, was named a Region 18 Principal of the Year in by the Texas Association of School Principals.

Posted 2018
Cody Hill

Cody Hill Class of 1993

Cody Hill (1993) was named the new Texas AgriLife extension agent for Taylor County (West Texas) in June 2018.

Posted 2018
Mario Heredia

Mario Heredia Class of 1993

Mario Heredia (1993) was named the new football defensive coordinator at Sweetwater High School in May 2018. He will also assist with the SHS powerlifting program.

Posted 2018
Robert Pritz

Robert Pritz Class of 1993

Robert Pritz (1993) was named the new agriculture and natural resources regional program leader for the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service’s West Region in December 2017. He will be based at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center in San Angelo.

Posted 2018
Stephen Lee

Stephen Lee Class of 1993

Stephen Lee was named offensive coordinator for the football team at the University of Mary Hardin Baylor in January 2016.

Posted 2016
Ross Lassiter

Ross Lassiter Class of 1993

Ross Lassiter was named head football coach and athletic director at Olton High School in January 2016.

Posted 2016
Eric Cole

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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Rikke Black

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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Tracy Meador

Tracy Meador Class of 1993

Tracy Meadorwas named principal of McNeil Elementary School in McKinney in December of 2014.

Posted 2015
Jason Bannowsky

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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Mohammad Zaki

Mohammad J. Zaki Class of 1993

Mohammad J. Zaki, a professor of computer science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, was named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) in January 2017.

Posted 2017
Kevin Harrington

Kevin Harrington Class of 1993

Kevin Harrington was profiled as one of the “52 Faces of Our Community” by the Midland Reporter-Telegram in May 2017. He is the president of the St. Vincent de Paul Society that provides financial assistant to Midland residents struggling to pay rent and utility bills.

Posted 2017
Lorrie Coop

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
Sheri Mulanax

Sheri Mulanax Class of 1993

Sheri Mulanax was named regional director of finance operations for the Benchmark global hospitality company. Benchmark develops and operates resorts, luxury hotels, conference centers and private clubs at some of the most exclusive locations in the world.

Posted 2019
Chris Beene

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
Susan Redford

Susan Redford Class of 1993

Susan Redford was named the new executive director of the Texas Association of Counties in January 2019. She is a former Ector County judge and previously served as judicial program manager for the TAC.

Posted 2019
Nelda Montemayor

Nelda Montemayor Class of 1994

Nelda Montemayor (1994), director of graduate admissions and enrollment for the Indiana University School of Public Health, received the Indiana University Latino Faculty and Staff Council’s 2018 Staff Award in April 2018.

Posted 2018
Cody Acree

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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Joseph Gillespie

Joseph Gillespie Class of 1994

Joseph Gillespie was promoted to the position of defensive coordinator for the University of Tulsa Hurricanes football team in January 2019.

Posted 2019

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Dan Harris

Dan M. Harris Class of 1994

Chief Patrol Agent Dan M. Harris has taken over as commander of the Blaine Sector of the U.S. Border Patrol in Washington.

A Border Patrol agent since 1995, Harris previously served as deputy chief patrol agent of the Grand Forks Sector covering Minnesota and North Dakota. He is a sixth-generation law enforcement officer who began his career with the San Angelo Police Department.

Harris earned his ASU bachelor’s degree in psychology in 1994. He also holds a master’s degree in joint campaign planning and strategy from the National Defense University’s Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Va.

Posted Fall 2014
Jennifer Peirson

Jennifer Peirson Class of 1994

Dr. Jennifer Peirson has been named principal of McKinney Boyd High School, where she had served as associate principal since 2008.

After earning her ASU bachelor’s degree in special education, Peirson stayed to earn her Master of Education in 1994. She began her teaching career at San Angelo Central High School and has also held teaching and administrative positions at South Garland High School, Webb Middle School in Garland and Lakeview Centennial High School.

Peirson also holds a doctorate from Texas A&M University-Commerce.

Posted Fall 2014
Marta Diffen

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
Dale Dunlap

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
Rick Howard

Rick Howard Class of 1994

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

Posted 2017
Quinda Feil-Duncan

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
Mike Fullen

Mike Fullen Class of 1994

Mike Fullen was named the new head football coach and athletic coordinator for Abilene (Texas) High School in June 2019.

Posted 2019
Butch Hulse

Butch Hulse Class of 1995

Butch Hulse (1995) was hired as a member of the Corporate Litigation Group in the San Antonio offices of Dykema, a leading national law firm, in April 2018.

Posted 2018
Mike Jinks

Mike Jinks Class of 1995

Mike Jinks was hired as the running backs coach at the University of Southern California (USC) in December 2018.

Posted 2019

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Leslie Cope

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
Stephanie Howard

Stephanie Howard Class of 1995

Stephanie Howard was named deputy superintendent of the Ector County Independent School District in Odessa, Texas, in the fall of 2018.

Posted 2019

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Austin Clarkson

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
Michelle Sipley

Michelle Sipley Class of 1995

Michelle Sipley was named the new director of financial aid at Syracuse University in September 2016.

Posted 2017
Denise Richards

Denise Richards Class of 1995

Denise Richards was named athletic director at Veribest High School near San Angelo. She is also the head volleyball coach and had been serving as interim athletic director.

Posted 2019
Steven Cole

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
Lynette Salinas

Lynette Salinas Class of 1995

Lynette Salinas was named 2018-19 Counselor of the Year for the Ector County Independent School District in Odessa, Texas, in July 2019.

Posted 2019
John Thomas

John Thomas Class of 1995

John Thomas was reappointed by Texas Gov. Greg Abbot to the Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities in June 2019. His term will expire in February 2023.

Posted 2019
Deborah Campbell

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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Jill Law

Jill Law Class of 1996

Jill Law (1996) joined Coldwell Banker Harper Realtors in Seguin in May of 2018.

Posted 2018
Lisa Taiclet

Lisa Taiclet Class of 1996

Lisa Taiclet was named the 2016-17 Elementary Teacher of the Year for the San Angelo Independent School District in April 2017.

Posted 2017
Marty Gibbs

Marty Gibbs Class of 1996

Marty Gibbs was named the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service district extension administrator for District 7 in September of 2014.

Posted 2015
Richard Minzenmayer

Richard “Rick” Minzenmayer Class of 1996

Richard “Rick” Minzenmayer retired in April of 2015 after 30 years with the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service.

Posted 2015
Tara Salisbury

Tara Salisbury Class of 1996

Tara Salisbury has been named the Education Service Center Region 15 Elementary Teacher of the Year for the 2013-14 school year and is now in the running to be named Texas Elementary Teacher of the Year.

A third-grade language arts teacher at Grape Creek Elementary School, Salisbury was also named the 2013-14 Grape Creek Intermediate Teacher of the Year. She earned her bachelor’s degree in early childhood education at ASU in 1996 and her master’s in school administration in 2012.

Salisbury is married to Dr. Micheal Salisbury, chair of the ASU Department of Agriculture.

Posted Fall 2014
Sam Robinson

Sam Robinson Class of 1996

Sam Robinson was named the head football coach at Cedar Ridge High School in Round Rock in February 2017.

Posted 2017
Jeff Hamilton

Jeff D. Hamilton Class of 1996 & 1998

Jeff D. Hamilton was hired as the new head football coach and athletic director at Bandera High School in May of 2015.

Posted 2015
Rosa Avendaño

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
Charlotte Stovall

Charlotte Stovall Class of 1996 and 2007

Charlotte Stovall (1996 & 2007), former principal at Coahoma High School and current director of curriculum and instruction for the Coahoma ISD, was named the ESC Region 18 Outstanding Principal of the Year for 2016-17 by the Texas Association of Secondary School Principals in October 2017.

Posted 2018
Dr. H.T. Sanchez

Dr. H.T. Sanchez Class of 1997

Dr. H.T. Sanchez (1997) was named the new superintendent for the Plainview Independent School District in May 2018.

Posted 2018
Katharine Kelleman

Katharine Eagan Kelleman Class of 1997

Katharine Eagan Kelleman (1997) was named the new CEO of the Port Authority of Allegheny County in Pittsburgh, Penn., in November 2017.

Posted 2018
Dr. Whitney Whitworth

Dr. Whitney Whitworth Class of 1997

Dr. Whitney Whitworth (1997) was hired as the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service family and community health agent for Llano County in August 2018.

Posted 2018
Amy Stephens

Amy Stephens Class of 1997

Amy Stephens (1997) was named the executive principal for the Monterey High School feeder pattern in the Lubbock Independent School District in May 2018.

Posted 2018
Katharine Eagan

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
Jason Hewitt

Jason Hewitt Class of 1997

Dr. Jason Hewitt was named the chief academic officer for secondary schools in the Bastrop Independent School District in May 2016. He finished out the 2015-16 school year as Bastrop HS principal.

Posted Fall 2016

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Brian Lowe

Brian Christopher Lowe Class of 1997

Brian Christopher Lowe was named the new principal at North Hopkins High School in the North Hopkins Independent School District near Sulphur Springs in Northeast Texas in March 2017.

Posted 2017
Dr. Shawn Wahl

Dr. Shawn Wahl Class of 1997

Dr. Shawn Wahl was named interim dean of the College of Arts and Letters at Missouri State University in April 2017. He previously served as chair of the ASU Communication and Mass Media Department.

Posted 2017
Dr. Jeffrey Durgin

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
Laurie Herndon

Laurie Herndon Class of 1997

Laurie Herndon was named the new principal at Alta Loma Elementary in the San Angelo Independent School District in June 2019. She previously served as assistant principal at San Angelo Lee Middle School.

Posted 2019
Juanita Ramos

Juanita Ramos Class of 1997

Juanita Ramos was named the 2018-19 Teacher of the Year at San Angelo’s San Jacinto Elementary School in April 2019.

Posted 2019
Erin O’Rourke

Erin O’Rourke Class of 1997

Erin O’Rourke was named the new assistant principal at Mary A. Brown Primary School in Smithville, Texas, in September 2018.

Posted 2019
Dr. Shawn Wahl

Dr. Shawn Wahl Class of 1997

Dr. Shawn Wahl was named dean of the College of Arts and Letters at Missouri State University in March 2019. He served the previous two years as interim dean and was head of the MSU Department of Communication from 2012-17.

Posted 2019
Sean McAuliffe

Sean McAuliffe Class of 1997

Sean McAuliffe was named the head football coach and campus athletic coordinator at Cypress Ranch High School in the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District near Houston in April 2019.

Posted 2019
Jonathan Luce

Jonathan Luce Class of 1998

Jonathan Luce was promoted to vice president of worldwide sales for RF Code in October 2015.

Posted 2016
Tanya Solsbery

Tanya Solsbery Class of 1998

Tanya Solsbery was named director of Baptist Retirement Community’s (BRC) $22 million expansion, named The Crest, in March 2016. BRC is a continuing care retirement community in San Angelo.

Posted 2016
Trish Meads

Trish Meads Class of 1998

Trish Meads (1998) won the SAISD Teacher of the Year Award for Santa Rita Elementary School in May 2018.

Posted 2018
Angela Pidgeon

Angela Pidgeon Class of 1998

Angela Pidgeon (1998), an English and Spanish teacher, won the SAISD Teacher of the Year Award for Central High School in May 2018.

Posted 2018
Gregory Conaway

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
Amanda Magallan

Amanda Magallan Class of 1998

Amanda Magallan was selected in February 2016 as the next superintendent of the Terrell County School District.

Posted 2016
Mike Peters

Mike Peters Class of 1998

Mike Peters was named head football coach and athletic director at Fort Stockton High School in February 2016.

Posted 2016
Kathryn Perez

Kathryn E. Perez Class of 1998

Kathryn Perez was named the new dean of admissions and records at South Plains College in Levelland, Texas, in January 2019.

Posted 2019

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Dr. Angel Salazar

Dr. Angel Salazar Class of 1998

Dr. Angel Salazar was named one of “Dallas’ Best General Practitioners” by the KevsBest.com consumer services website on August 2019. Salazar is a general practitioner at White Rock Family Health.

Posted 2019
Stephanie Baker

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
Ryan Mathews

Ryan Mathews Class of 1998

Ryan Mathews, head of the Fire Alarm and Fire Sprinkler Operations Department for Ener-Tel Services in San Angelo, was appointed to the board of the Texas Fire Alarm Association in February 2019.

Posted 2019
Isaac Denson

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
Rebecca Cline

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
Dr. Shawn Williams

Dr. Shawn Williams Class of 1999

Dr. Shawn Williams was presented the Non-Tenured Faculty Award at Campbellsville University (Kentucky) in October 2015.

Posted 2016
Jeff Mann

Jeff Mann Class of 1999

Jeff Mann (1999) was promoted to director of instruction and leadership development for the College Station (Texas) Independent School District in July 2018. Mann has spent his entire career in the College Station ISD, including the last three years as principal at A&M Consolidated Middle School.

Posted 2018
Christina Whetsel

Christina Whetsel Class of 1999

Christina Whetsel (1999) was hired as the new assistant athletic director for compliance at Augusta University in Augusta, Ga., in May 2018.

Posted 2018
Farrah Gomez

Farrah Gomez Class of 1999

Farrah Gomez was named assistant superintendent of human resources and professional learning for the San Angelo Independent School District in April 2019.

Posted 2019

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Rick Gray

Rick Gray Class of 1999

Rick Gray was hired as the new administrator of Culberson Hospital in Van Horn, Texas, in November 2018.

Posted 2019
Dr. Christopher Higgins

Dr. Christopher Higgins Class of 1999

Dr. Christopher Higgins, a professor of biological sciences at Tarleton State University, was selected to serve on the Communications Committee for the Organization of Biological Field Stations in February 2019.

Posted 2019
Terri Gould

Terri Gould Class of 1999

Teri Gould was named the new principal at Glenmore Elementary School in the San Angelo Independent School District in July 2019.

Posted 2019
Anthony Fletcher

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
Lori Barton

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
Crystal Parker

Crystal Parker Class of 2000

Crystal Parker, an attorney at Jackson Walker LLP in Dallas, was selected to the “Texas Super Lawyers – Rising Stars” list by Thomson Reuters. The list was published in the April 2016 issue of Texas Monthly magazine.

Posted 2016
Dana Cooper

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
Ben Adams

Ben Adams Class of 2000

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

Posted 2016
Mark Woods

Mark Woods Class of 2000

Mark Woods joined People Bank in Lubbock as vice president in January 2016.

Posted 2016
Bobby Vaughn

Bobby Vaughn Class of 2000

Bobby Vaughn was named the new director of accounting for the Rockwall Independent School District near Dallas in June 2017.

Posted 2017
Dr. Mark Boyle

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
Dr. Quentin Wright

Dr. Quentin Wright Class of 2000

Dr. Quentin Wright was named founding president of Lone Star College-Houston North in May 2019. He assumed his duties in June 2019 for the new institution that opened this fall as the seventh college in the Lone Star College System.

Posted 2019

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Colby Carthel

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
Kendra Helms

Kendra Helms Class of 2000

Kendra Helms was promoted to assistant vice president of AimBank in Abilene in September 2018.

Posted 2019
Angela Brooks

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
Jamie Robinson

Jamie Robinson Class of 2001

Jamie Robinson (2001) was named principal of the new Van Raub Elementary School in the Boerne (Texas) Independent School District in October of 2017.

Posted 2018

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Rachel Conover

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
Chad Ellis

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
Chris Evans

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
Mason Vaughan

Mason Vaughan Class of 2001

Mason Vaughan was named president of the First National Bank of Eldorado in February 2017. He first joined the FNB staff as a vice president in 2003.

Posted 2017
Michael Dietzel

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
German Torres

German Torres Class of 2001

German Torres was hired as the new band director for Bowie High School in North Texas in the summer of 2019.

Posted 2019
Kerry Robertson

Kerry Robertson Class of 2002

Kerry Robertson was named the 2018-19 Teacher of the Year at San Angelo Lee Middle School in April 2019.

Posted 2019
Dr. Stephanie Free

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
Dr. Mary Liz Brooks

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
Ryan Haverlah

Ryan Haverlah Class of 2002

Ryan Haverlah was named the new city manager for Copperas Cove, Texas, in June 2019.

Posted 2019
Brice Foster

Brice Foster Class of 2002

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

Posted 2016
Amanda Fawver

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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Wendy Boatright

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
Kristen Krager

Kristen Krager Class of 2002

Kristen Krager (2002) was named senior director of broadcast media for the Calise Partners integrated marketing agency in Dallas in May 2018.

Posted 2018
Sterlin Gilbert

Sterlin Gilbert Class of 2002

Sterlin Gilbert was named the new head football coach at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, La., in December 2018.

Posted 2019

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Johnnie Fair

Johnnie Fair Class of 2002

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

Posted 2016
Henry Gonzales

Henry Gonzales Class of 2002

Henry Gonzales was named head boys soccer coach at San Angelo Lake View High School in June 2016.

Posted 2016
Justin Carrigan

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
Delia Cullins

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
Matthew Gutierrez

Matthew Gutierrez Class of 2002

Dr. Matthew Gutierrez was hired as the new superintendent of the Seguin Independent School District near San Antonio in July 2017.

Posted 2017

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Dr. Jason Skelton

Dr. Jason Skelton Class of 2002

Dr. Jason Skeltonwas named the new principal at San Angelo’s Holiman Elementary School in July of 2015.

Posted 2015
Lara Nelson

Lara Nelson Class of 2002

Lara Nelson was named the new assistant principal at Upland Heights Elementary School in the Frenship Independent School District near Abilene in June 2017.

Posted 2017
Stacy Pierson

Stacy Pierson Class of 2002

Stacy Pierson (2002) was promoted to executive director of school operations and student success for the Cold Spring-Oakhurst Consolidated Independent School District in January 2018.

Posted 2018

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Joe Gándar

Joe Gándar Class of 2002

Joe Gándar was named the new principal at San Angelo Lincoln Middle School in April 2019.

Posted 2019
Rob Cook

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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Dr. Andrew Hart

Dr. Andrew Hart Class of 2003

Dr. Andrew Hart was named the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service’s agriculture and natural resources agent for Hale County in July 2019. He previously served as the 4-H specialist for District 2.

Posted 2019
Lauren Ashley

Lauren Ashley Class of 2003

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

Posted 2019
Chad Smith

Chad Smith Class of 2003

Chad Smith was granted tenure at Temple College (Texas) in April 2019. He teaches in the Social and Behavioral Science Department.

Posted 2019
Jennifer Yarbrough

Jennifer Yarbrough Class of 2003

Jennifer Yarbrough (2003) was named the Texas Association of Secondary School Principal’s Region 15 Outstanding Assistant Principal of the Year in September 2017. She is also an adjunct instructor in the ASU Teacher Education Department.

Posted 2018
Clint Askins

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
Angela Taylor

Angela Taylor Class of 2003

Angela Taylor (2003) joined the CBS North Carolina (WNCN-Raleigh) team as an evening news anchor in March 2018.

Posted 2018

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David Williams

David N. Williams Class of 2003

David N. Williams was appointed as an equity research associate on the Drexel Hamilton LLC brokerage firm’s Semiconductor Research Team in October 2015.

Posted 2016
Sarah Teaff

Sarah Teaff Class of 2003

Sarah Teaff was named the new chief operating officer of St. Luke Community Healthcare in Ronan, Mont., in December 2016.

Posted 2017
Tony Vu

Tony Vu Class of 2003

Tony Vu reached the 100-win mark as head boys’ soccer coach at San Angelo Central High School in January 2017. He is the first Central soccer coach to reach that mark.

Posted 2017
Whitney Bownds

Whitney Bownds Class of 2003

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

Posted 2015
Courtney Levens

Courtney Levens Class of 2003

Courtney Levens was named the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service’s new family and consumer sciences agent for Brown County in October 2016.

Posted 2017
Mary Guerra

Mary Guerra Class of 2003

Mary Guerra, medical director for Banfield Pet Hospital’s Dallas-Fort Worth Central District, was profiled in Healthy Hispanic Living magazine in January 2017.

Posted 2017
Gabriel Lopez

Gabriel Lopez Class of 2003

Gabriel Lopez was named principal of West Briar Middle School in the Houston Independent School District in July 2017.

Posted 2017
Kevin McSpadden

Kevin McSpadden Class of 2004

Kevin McSpadden was named the 2018-19 Teacher of the Year at San Angelo Central High School and the SAISD’s Secondary Teacher of the Year in April 2019.

Posted 2019
Rachel Davis

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
Crystal Stark

Crystal Stark Class of 2004

Crystal Stark was re-appointed by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to another term on the Rehabilitation Council of Texas. The council works with the Texas Workforce Commission to advocate for people with disabilities in the vocational rehabilitation process. Stark is a vocational rehabilitation counselor in College Station, Texas.

Posted 2019
Sarah Van Sickle

Sarah Van Sickle Class of 2004

Sarah Van Sickle was named the 2018-19 Teacher of the Year at San Angelo’s Glenmore Elementary School in April 2019.

Posted 2019
Terry McCutchen

Terry McCutchen Class of 2004

Terry McCutchen, principal at Henrietta (Texas) Junior High School, was named the Region 9 Principal of the Year by the Texas Association of Secondary School Principals in August 2019.

Posted 2019
Robin Graves

Robin Graves Class of 2004

Robin Graves, Miles Junior High and High School principal, was named the 2015-16 Region XV Principal of the Year by the Texas Association of Secondary School Principals in February 2016.

Posted 2016
Martha Saucedo

Martha Saucedo Class of 2004

Martha Saucedo was named the Texas Association of School Administrators’ 2016 Texas Secondary Teacher of the Year in October 2015. She teaches family consumer science in the Brady ISD. She also won a Leadership Award for secondary teachers at the 2016 H-E-B Excellence in Education Awards Ceremony in San Antonio in May 2016.

Posted 2016
Valerie Beesley

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
Doray Hill

Doray Hill Class of 2004

Doray Hill (2004) was hired as the new city administrator for Three Rivers in South Texas in August 2018. He previously served as an associate professor of government at Howard College in San Angelo.

Posted 2018
Lindsey Threadgill

Lindsey Threadgill Class of 2004

Lindsey Threadgill (2004) was named 2017-18 Teacher of the Year for Coble Middle School in the Mansfield Independent School District in March 2018. She is chair of the Special Education Department and the Content Mastery teacher at CMS.

Posted 2018
Kayla Davidson

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
Robert Moore

Robert Moore Class of 2004

Robert Moore was honored for completing the year-long Leadership Texarkana community leadership program in April 2016. He is a senior vice president with Wells Fargo Business Banking in Texarkana.

Posted 2016
Kirk Byrd

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
Scott Larrabee

Scott Larrabee Class of 2004

Scott Larrabee was hired as the new head coach of the girls’ basketball team at Sehome High School in Bellingham, Wash., in May 2017.

Posted 2017
Rene Gonzalez

Rene Gonzalez Class of 2005

Rene Gonzalez was named the 2018-19 Teacher of the Year at San Angelo’s Fort Concho Elementary School in April 2019.

Posted 2019
Lyndsey Williamson

Lyndsey Williamson Class of 2005

Lyndsey Williamson was promoted to be the new principal at Abilene (Texas) Cooper High School in May 2019. She previously served as associate principal at ACHS.

Posted 2019
Kayla Hons

Kayla Hons Class of 2005

Kayla Hons was named vice president and loan officer of Community National Bank in Mineral Wells in March 2017.

Posted 2017

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Morgan Chegwidden

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
Zach Ramirez

Zach Ramirez Class of 2005 & 2011

Zach Ramirezin July of 2015 was named the new principal at Goliad Elementary School in the San Angelo Independent School District.

Posted 2015
Jackie Anderson

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
Shay Avants

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
Alan Carlos

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
Ed Kading

Ed Kading Class of 2006

Ed Kading was hired as the new police chief for the City of Brownwood in West Texas in June 2019. He had spent more than 25 years with the San Angelo Police Department.

Posted 2019
Colt Bradford

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
Kyle Youngblood

Kyle Youngblood Class of 2006

Kyle Youngblood was hired as the Texas AgriLife Extension Service agriculture and natural resources agent for Throckmorton County in December of 2014.

Posted 2015
Jenette Spurbeck

Jenette Spurbeck Class of 2006

Jenette Spurbeck was promoted to assistant principal at Clarksville High School in Clarksville, Tenn., in July 2016.

Posted 2016
Dr. Elaine Dispo

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
Forrest Holt

Forrest Holt Class of 2006

Forrest Holt was part of the production team that produced the “Pokémon Super Bowl” commercial that ran during the NFL Super Bowl in February 2016.

Posted 2016
Grant Freeman

Grant Freeman Class of 2006

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

Posted 2017
Aaryn Valenzuela

Aaryn Valenzuela Class of 2006

Aaryn Valenzuela joined the news team at WALB-TV in Albany, Ga., as a weekend anchor and reporter in August of 2015.

Posted 2015
Lori Boies

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
James Campbell

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
Gena Fleming

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
Ben Lyons

Ben Lyons Class of 2006

Ben Lyons was promoted to defensive coordinator of the Chiefs football team at San Angelo Lake View High School in August 2017. He has coached at Lake View since 2006.

Posted 2017
Sercan Fenerci

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
Harvey Castoreno

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
Zach Reyes

Zach Reyes Class of 2007

Zach Reyes was promoted to the position of trust officer with First Financial Bank of San Angelo in July 2019.

Posted 2019
Adrien Pittman

Adrien Pittman Class of 2007

Adrien Pittman joined the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service as the Better Living for Texans (BLT) project coordinator for Tom Green County in July 2019.

Posted 2019
Ashley Gould

Ashley Gould Class of 2007

Ashley Gould was named the 2018-19 Teacher of the Year at San Angelo Lake View High School in April 2019. She was then appointed the new assistant principal at San Angelo Lincoln Middle School in May 2019.

Posted 2019

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Jayson Wilhelm

Jayson Wilhelm Class of 2007

Jayson Wilhelm was named head football coach and athletic director at Menard High School in May 2016.

Posted 2016
Kevin Pope

Kevin Pope Class of 2007

Kevin Pope (2007) was named the head boys basketball coach at Weatherford (Texas) High School in May 2018.

Posted 2018
Chelsea Smith

Chelsea Smith Class of 2007

Chelsea Smith (2007) won the SAISD Teacher of the Year Award for Austin Elementary School in May 2018.

Posted 2018
Cory Robinson

Cory Robinson Class of 2007

Cory Robinson was promoted to curator of history at San Angelo’s Fort Concho National Historic Landmark in August of 2015. He has been at Fort Concho for 13 years.

Posted 2015
Dr. Betty Murray

Dr. Betty Murray Class of 2007

Dr. Betty Murray (2007) joined Mercy Clinic in Joplin, Mo., as an internal medicine physician in September 2017.

Posted 2018
Jenna Turnage

Jenna Turnage Class of 2007

Jenna Turnage (2007) was named the new director of corporate partnerships for the Charleston (S.C.) Metro Chamber of Commerce in May 2018.

Posted 2018

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Molly McDonough

Molly McDonough Class of 2007

Molly McDonough began her second postdoctoral fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution in February 2016. While an undergraduate at ASU, she discovered a new species of bat now called Eumops Wilsoni.

Posted 2016
Alex Yarbrough

Alex Yarbrough Class of 2007

Alex Yarbrough was one of two nominees for president-elect of the Texas Young Lawyers Association in January 2016.

Posted 2016
Carolyn Zapata

Carolyn Zapata Class of 2007

Carolyn Zapata was hired as the new dean of nursing at Ranger College in September 2015. She previously taught nursing for eight years at Tarleton State University.

Posted 2016
Cody Allen

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
Laura Brandenburg

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
Megan Hastings

Megan Hastings Class of 2007

Megan Hastings was recognized with a 2016 Impact Award: Four for the Future by the Auto Care Association in September 2016. The award honors four aftermarket professionals age 40 or younger who have made remarkable contributions within the auto care industry. Hastings is the digital marketing and training manager for Aftermarket Auto Parts Alliance Inc.

Posted 2017

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Jay Immel

Jay Immel Class of 2008

Jay Immel was named the new head baseball coach at Mason (Texas) High School in May 2019.

Posted 2019
Will Brewer

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
Sol Southall

Sol Southall Class of 2008

Sol Southall was named the new head golf coach at Sweet Briar College (Virginia) in January 2019.

Posted 2019
Jessica Ray

Jessica Ray Class of 2008

Jessica Ray was named Canyon High School Teacher of the Year in February 2016.

Posted 2016
Brian Groves

Brian Groves Class of 2008

Brian Groves was promoted to the position of public information officer for the City of San Angelo in July 2019. He previously served as the city videographer.

Posted 2019
Whitney Schniers

Whitney Schniers Class of 2008

Whitney Schniers was named the 2018-19 Teacher of the Year at San Angelo’s McGill Elementary School in April 2019.

Posted 2019
Fred Dietz

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
Jason Brock

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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Holly Hartsfield

Holly Hartsfield Class of 2008

Holly Hartsfield (2008), a third-grade math teacher, won the SAISD Teacher of the Year Award for Bowie Elementary School in May 2018.

Posted 2018
Melissa McCullough

Melissa A. McCullough Class of 2008

Melissa A. McCullough was hired as director of operations planning for High Steel Structures in Lancaster, Penn., in May 2017.

Posted 2017
Amy Dennis

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
Kristyn Ward

Kristyn Ward Class of 2009

Kristyn Ward joined the City of San Angelo staff in February 2016 as healthy communities coordinator.

Posted 2016
Melissa Haderlie

Melissa Haderlie Class of 2009

Melissa Haderlie was named the new Star Valley branch manager for the Lincoln County Library System in Star Valley, Wyo., in February 2019.

Posted 2019
Amy Lemaster

Amy Lemaster Class of 2009

Amy Lemaster was named the new principal at San Angelo Lee Middle School in April 2019.

Posted 2019
Josh Neiswander

Josh Neiswander Class of 2009

Josh Neiswander joined the coaching staff of the Tampa Bay franchise in the new XFL professional football league in June 2019 as the quarterbacks coach.

Posted 2019
Justin Wolfe

Justin Wolfe Class of 2009

Justin Wolfe was hired as the new regional business manager for Manitex, an articulating crane company, in July 2019. He now oversees the company’s South-Central Region.

Posted 2019
Claudia Becerra

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
Dr. Joshua McGinty

Dr. Joshua McGinty Class of 2009

Dr. Joshua McGinty was named the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service agronomist for South Texas in September of 2014.

Posted 2015
Grant Walker

Grant Walker Class of 2009

Grant Walker (2009), a business consultant with FASTSIGNS International Inc., was one of only 36 young professionals worldwide chosen in March 2018 to join the International Sign Association’s Elite Program, recognizing the next generation of sign, graphics and visual communications industry leaders.

Posted 2018
Jourmain Matta

Jourmain Matta Class of 2009

Jourmain Matta (2009) was named the new head football coach at Bronte High School in West Texas in May 2018.

Posted 2018
Blake Bien

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
Thomas Tipton

Thomas Tipton Class of 2009

Thomas Tipton (2009) was named head football coach and athletic director at Richland Spring High School in March 2018.

Posted 2018
Lindsay Carr

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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Meg Barrett

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
Michael McLeod

Michael McLeod Class of 2010

Michael McLeod was promoted to head football coach and athletic director at Mason (Texas) High School in March 2019. He has been coaching at his alma mater since 2011, most recently as defensive coordinator.

Posted 2019
Shelly Huddleston

Shelly Huddleston Class of 2010

Shelly Huddleston was named the new executive director of schools for the San Angelo Independent School District in April 2019.

Posted 2019
Jon Ward

Jon Ward Class of 2010

Jon Ward was named the new head football coach for New Home High School in West Texas in April 2019.

Posted 2019
Alexandra Allard

Alexandra Allard Class of 2010

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

Posted 2019
Eric Daniels

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
Nate Bayless

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
Bethany Schmickle

Bethany Schmickle Class of 2010

Bethany Schmickle (2010), a kindergarten teacher, won the SAISD Teacher of the Year Award for Bonham Elementary School in May 2018.

Posted 2018
Adrian Alonso

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
Amy Salazar

Amy Salazar Class of 2010

Amy Salazar (2010) was hired as the new principal at Houston Elementary School in Mineral Wells, Texas, in July 2018. She spent the last eight years as principal of Perrin Elementary School in Perrin, Texas.

Posted 2018
John Phair

John B. Phair Class of 2010

John B. Phair (2010) was hired as an associate in the Corporate and Securities Practice Group in the Dallas office of the Thompson & Knight LLP law firm in April 2018.

Posted 2018
Laura Lewis

Laura Lewis Class of 2010

Laura Lewis was promoted to vice president of member relations for the San Angelo Chamber of Commerce in January 2017.

Posted 2017
Antuan Washington

Antuan Washington Class of 2010

Antuan Washington, interim head track and field coach and director of recreational sports at Sul Ross State University, was presented the first Lobo Leadership Award at Sul Ross’ annual faculty-staff awards program.

Washington joined the Sul Ross coaching staff in 2013 after seven years at ASU working in University Recreation. He earned his Bachelor of Business Administration at ASU in 2010 and his Master of Education in 2012.

Posted Fall 2014
Alix Allison

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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Yvonne Busenlehner

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
Samantha Johnstone

Samantha Johnstone Class of 2011

Samantha Johnstone was named the 2018-19 Teacher of the Year at San Angelo Lincoln Middle School in April 2019.

Posted 2019
Jennifer Perkins

Jennifer Perkins Class of 2011

Jennifer Perkins, the college and career advisor at Odessa (Texas) Permian High School, was recognized by the College Board Counselor Recognition Program in June 2019.

Posted 2019
Stacy Fischer

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
Kaycee Taylor

Kaycee Taylor Class of 2011

Kaycee Taylor (2011), a former All-American softball player at ASU, was hired as assistant softball coach at Pittsburg State University in October 2017.

Posted 2018

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Michael Wilkinson

Michael Wilkinson Class of 2011

Michael Wilkinson was promoted to director of student life and services at the University of Houston-Victoria in August of 2015.

Posted 2015
Britt Lusk

Britt Lusk Class of 2011

Britt Lusk (2011) was named the city manager of Tucumcari, N.M., in May 2018. He previously served as director of administrative services for the City of Hobbs, N.M.

Posted 2018
Cassi Sultemeier

Cassi Sultemeier Class of 2011

Cassi Sultemeier (2011) was named the Secondary Teacher of the Year for the Marble Falls (Texas) Independent School District in May 2018. She is a sixth-grade Language-arts teacher at Marble Falls Middle School.

Posted 2018
Sharon Lane

Sharon Lane Class of 2011

Sharon Lane was named the new principal at Lamar Elementary School in the San Angelo Independent School District in July 2016.

Posted 2016
Justin McGriff

Justin McGriff Class of 2011

Justin McGriffwas hired in March of 2015 as the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service’s new agriculture and natural resources agent for Fisher County.

Posted 2015
Andrew Atterbury

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
Courtney Killian

Courtney Killian Class of 2012

Courtney Killian was hired as media/public relations director for the Owen Group Advertising Agency in Lubbock, Texas, in September 2018. She is in charge of traditional media buying, planning and strategy, and public relations management.

Posted 2019
Morgan Sutton

Morgan Sutton Class of 2012

Morgan Sutton was named the 2018-19 Teacher of the Year at San Angelo’s Austin Elementary School in April 2019.

Posted 2019
Ben Ely

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
Brenna Riddle

Brenna Riddle Class of 2012

Brenna Riddle (2012) was promoted to operations officer and branch manager of First Financial Bank in San Angelo in September 2017.

Posted 2018
Jessica Buren

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
Cathy Tanguma

Cathy Tanguma Class of 2012

Cathy Tanguma (2012) won the SAISD Teacher of the Year Award for Crockett Elementary School in May 2018.

Posted 2018
Alexa Nichols

Alexa Nichols Class of 2012

Alexa Nichols was sworn into the Texas State Bar Association as an attorney by U.S. Congressman Mike Conaway in a special ceremony at San Angelo’s O.C. Fisher Federal Building in November 2016.

Posted 2017
Reagan Noland

Reagan Noland Class of 2012

Dr. Reagan Noland was hired as the new agronomist specializing in crop management at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center in San Angelo in November 2018.

Posted 2019

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Cody Bridges

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
Carlea Ulrich

Carlea Ulrich Class of 2012 & 2014

Carlea Ulrich (2012 & 2014) was hired as the academic coordinator and enhancement academic program director at Northwestern State University in Louisiana in December 2017.

Posted 2018
Shawn Bearden

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
Callie Fuchs

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
April Johnson

April Johnson Class of 2013

April Johnson was named the 2018-19 Teacher of the Year at San Angelo’s Bradford Elementary School in April 2019.

Posted 2019
Daniel Chavez

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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Jeff Corean

Jeff Corean Class of 2013

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

Posted 2016
Beth Pulliam

Beth Pulliam Class of 2013

Beth Pulliam (2013) joined the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce as vice president of investor relations in May 2018. She took her new position after serving three years as associate director of employer relations at Texas Christian University’s Neeley School of Business Graduate Career Service Center.

Posted 2018
Kendall Samuelson

Kendall Samuelson Class of 2013

Kendall Samuelson, a postdoctoral research fellow with the Texas AgriLife Extension Service in Amarillo, received a 2017 Young Scholar Award from the Western Section, American Society of Animal Science in June 2017.

Posted 2017
Derrick Drury

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
Jason Mangold

Jason Mangold Class of 2013

Jason Mangold is the new Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service agent for 4-H and youth development in Bastrop County. Prior to joining AgriLife Extension, he was an agricultural science teacher at Comanche High School.

Mangold was also a student worker at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center in San Angelo while earning his bachelor’s degree in agricultural science and leadership at ASU in 2013.

Posted Fall 2014
Joshua Smartt

Joshua Smartt Class of 2013 & 2015

Joshua Smartt was hired as the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service’s new agriculture and natural resources agent for Archer County in April 2019.

Posted 2019
Deok Choi

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
Sherri Chasteen

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
Emily Stout

Emily Stout Class of 2014

Emily Stout was named the 2018-19 Teacher of the Year at San Angelo’s Crockett Elementary School in April 2019.

Posted 2019
Sha’Tara Robinson

Sha’Tara Robinson Class of 2014

Sha’Tara Robinson was named the program associate director for a new office opened by Adoption Choices of Texas in Katy in March 2019. Adoption Choices of Texas is a full-service, licensed adoption agency.

Posted 2019
Horacio Casillas

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
Ren Jones

Ren Jones Class of 2014

Ren Jones opened Rennovate, Dallas’ first writing and editing company that specializes in technical writing, in October 2018. He previously worked as a training editor for Southwest Airlines.

Posted 2019
Scott MacNaughton

Scott MacNaughton Class of 2014

Scott MacNaughton, a sergeant investigator in Bexar County, Texas, was appointed to the Texas Crime Victims’ Institute Advisory Council by Gov. Greg Abbott in July 2019.

Posted 2019
Travis Jones

Travis Jones Class of 2014

Travis Jones was named the new athletic director and head boys basketball coach, as well as a secondary math teacher, at Sam Rayburn High School in Ivanhoe, Texas, in April 2019.

Posted 2019
Julie Meza

Julie Meza Class of 2014

Julie Meza was named the 2018-19 Teacher of the Year at San Angelo’s Holiman Elementary School in April 2019.

Posted 2019
Drew Brown

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
Staci Winders

Staci Winders Class of 2014

Staci Winders (2014) was hired as the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service family and community health agent for Nolan County in August 2018.

Posted 2018
Brandi Barber

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
Alexander Bryant

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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Krystal Gabriel

Krystal Gabriel Class of 2014

Krystal Gabriel was named principal of Cedar Creek Intermediate School in the Bastrop Independent School District near Austin in June 2017.

Posted 2017
Nathan Ray

Nathan Ray Class of 2014

Nathan Ray was hired as the large swine sales account manager at TechMix Global in September 2016.

Posted 2017
Garrett Silva

Garrett Silva Class of 2014

Garrett Silva received his certification as a game warden with the New Mexico Department of Fish and Game after graduating from a 16-week training course at the San Juan County Criminal Justice Training Authority Law Enforcement Academy in Farmington, N.M., in November 2016.

Posted 2017
Jennifer Frias

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
Timothy Cooper

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
Ty Crooks

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
Donavon Roberts

Donavon Roberts Class of 2015

Donavon Roberts was hired onto the sales force of Principle Transport Group in Willow Park in March 2015 as the first participant in the company’s innovative Training and Mentorship Program.

Posted 2016
Darius Flowers

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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Emily Yanez

Emily Yanez Class of 2015

Emily Yanezwas hired by the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service in June of 2015 as the county family and consumer sciences agent for Glasscock County.

Posted 2015
Trisha Ruiz

Trisha Ruiz Class of 2015

Trisha Ruiz was named director of the new Veteran Success Center at the University of St. Thomas in Houston in October 2018.

Posted 2019
Margaret Marshall

Margaret Marshall Class of 2015

Margaret Marshall was named the 2018-19 Teacher of the Year at San Angelo’s Reagan Elementary School in April 2019.

Posted 2019
Adrienna Bagley

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
Caitlin Williams

Caitlin Williams Class of 2015

Caitlin Williams joined KSWO-TV in Lawton, Okla., as a news anchor in December 2016.

Posted 2017
Monica Ebert

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
Seohyun Sanchez

Seohyun Sanchez Class of 2015

Seohyun Sanchez was hired as an intern at KPM CPAs & Advisors in Springfield, Mo., in March 2017.

Posted 2017
Jessica Riddle

Jessica Riddle Class of 2015 & 2019

Jessica Riddle was named the 2018-19 Teacher of the Year at San Angelo’s Goliad Elementary School in April 2019.

Posted 2019
Katelyn MacLeay

Katelyn MacLeay Class of 2016

Katelyn MacLeay was named a Distinguished Fremont Scholar and received the top scholarship award from the James M. and Erma T. Freemont Foundation in May 2016. She is now in medical school at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.

Posted 2016
Ryan Odom

Ryan Odom Class of 2016

Ryan Odom, in partnership with his wife, Tabitha, won first place in San Angelo’s 2016 Business Plan Competition in April 2016. Their plan was for an offshoot of their existing business, OdomRD, a dietician consulting firm

Posted 2016
Jackie Umphres

Jackie Umphres Class of 2016

Jackie Umphres was hired as the new afternoon deejay on Active Rock KKBA 92.7 FM in Corpus Christi in July 2019.

Posted 2019
Cameron Massengill

Cameron Massengill Class of 2016

Cameron Massengill was promoted to head baseball coach at San Angelo Lake View High School in June 2019.

Posted 2019
Jim Batchelor

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
Walter Reed

Walter Paden Reed Class of 2016

Walter Paden Reed, a graduate student at the University of Houston, was part of a five-member UH team that won the 2017 Imperial Barrel Award Program for the Gulf Coast Section of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.

Posted 2017
Dora Colvin

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
Arquimides Reyes

Arquimides Reyes Class of 2016

Arquimides Reyes (2016), a Ph.D. student in animal science at Colorado State University, received a 2018-19 W.D. Farr Scholarship from the National Cattlemen’s Foundation in February 2018. The $15,000 scholarship recognizes superior achievement in academics and leadership, and is designed to allow students to further their study in fields that will benefit the cattle and beef industry.

Posted 2018
Kelli Pritchard

Kelli Pritchard Class of 2016

Kelli Pritchard joined the Stamford Healthcare System as a family nurse practitioner in October 2016 to provide primary care to patients at Stamford Health Clinic and Stamford Walk-In Clinic.

Posted 2017
Darian Evans

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
Stephanie Infante

Stephanie Infante Class of 2017

Stephanie Infante was named the new orchestra director at San Angelo Lake View High School in June 2019.

Posted 2019
Sam Fowler

Sam Fowler Class of 2017

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

Posted 2019
Isabel Albritton

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
Michael Adeyemo

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
Devon Wilde

Devon Wilde Class of 2017

Devon Wilde was hired as aquatics/facilities manager at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi in July 2017.

Posted 2017
Tucker Durham

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
Mariah Fernandez

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
Deakin Stokes

Deakin Stokes Class of 2017

Deakin Stokes (2017) was hired as a sales representative by Americot Inc., a leading supplier of premium cottonseed, in April 2018. He will serve growers and customers in the Southwest Region based in Lubbock.

Posted 2018
Justin Klinksiek

Justin Klinksiek Class of 2017

Justin Klinksiek was named the Texas AgriLife Extension Service’s new agent for agriculture and natural resources in McCulloch County in August 2017.

Posted 2017
Paul Keeton

Paul Keeton Class of 2017 & 2019

Paul Keeton was promoted to serve as the veteran service director for West Texas Counseling and Guidance in July 2019. He previously served as WTCG military veteran peer network coordinator.

Posted 2019
Jacob Scott

Jacob Scott Class of 2018

Jacob Scott was hired as the theater arts teacher at Ballinger (Texas) High School in September 2018.

Posted 2019
Kevin Rodriguez

Kevin Rodriguez Class of 2018

Kevin Rodriguez was named the head strength and conditioning coach at Delta State University in Cleveland, Miss., in January 2019.

Posted 2019
Stewart Hohensee

Stewart Hohensee Class of 2018

Stewart Hohensee joined the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center in San Angelo as a research associate in the agronomy and ecosystem management programs in April 2019.

Posted 2019
Taryn Titsworth

Taryn Titsworth Class of 2018

Taryn Titsworth was hired as the new Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service agent for Kimble County in May 2019. He serves as the agency’s agriculture and natural resources contact and 4-H and youth development contact for the county.

Posted 2019
Everett Corder

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
Jordan Gibson

Jordan Gibson Class of 2018

Jordan Gibson was hired as the new intermediate P.E. teacher and high school coach for the Glen Rose (Texas) Independent School District in August 2019.

Posted 2019
Landon Sullivan

Landon Sullivan Class of 2018

Landon Sullivan was hired as an instructor of animal science at Buena Vista University (Iowa) in August 2019.

Posted 2019
Tristan Fielder

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
Amy Gryder

Amy Gryder Class of 2019

Amy Gryder was hired as the new choir director for San Angelo’s Lake View High School and Lincoln Middle School in 2019.

Posted 2019
Jenelle Cunningham

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

Class Notes

W. Bonham Magness Class of 1952

Grant Teaff Class of 1952

Kent Flanagan Class of 1968

Jim Slaughter Class of 1968

Larry Blair Class of 1968 & 1976

Edward Walraven Class of 1970

Ray Mayo Class of 1970

William Hood Class of 1970

Charlie Ramirez Class of 1972

Wayne T. Franke Class of 1972

Dorman Moore Class of 1972

Morris Overstreet Class of 1972

Eva Horton Class of 1972

Delta Emerson Class of 1973

Arnold Garcia Jr. Class of 1973

Dr. Clayton Alred Class of 1973

Steve Castle Class of 1974

Ronny Alexander Class of 1974

Benny Cox Class of 1975

Virgie Gerald Class of 1975

Mike McKay Class of 1975

Dr. Kim Alexander Class of 1976

Walter Juliff Class of 1976

Isaac Castro Class of 1977

Dr. David Umphress Class of 1977

Retired Air Force Lt. Gen Ronnie Hawkins Class of 1977

Dr. Les Plagens Class of 1977 & 1979

Drew Montgomery Class of 1978

Steve Byrns Class of 1978

Joe Muñoz Class of 1978

Michele Stevens Class of 1978

Dr. Brian Shannon Class of 1979

Victor Pyle Class of 1979

Cheryl Brown Class of 1979

Vance Jones Class of 1979

Kenneth Gully Class of 1979

Dr. Mark McFarland Class of 1980

Mike Millegan Class of 1980

Lloyd “Dee” Kirkpatrick Class of 1980

Cindy Musick Class of 1980

Saundra Paschal Class of 1980

Dr. Brian J. May Class of 1980 & 1982

Deb Hollingsworth Class of 1981

Edwin Miranda Class of 1981

Doug Kuhlmann Class of 1981

David Finn Class of 1981

Gary L. Banks Class of 1981

Judy Parker Class of 1982

Creta L. “Spanky” Carter II Class of 1982

Ricky Williams Class of 1982

Dr. J. Bruce Moring Class of 1982 & 1986

Petra (Pat) Trevino Class of 1983

Colleen Gilchrist Class of 1983

Linda Stephens Class of 1983, 1991 & 2001

Adm. Eric Coy Young Class of 1984

David Mullins Class of 1984

Darrell Hagemann Class of 1984

Wallace R. Nichols Class of 1984

Landel C. Hobbs Class of 1984

Shari Riley Class of 1984

Judge E. Scott Frost Class of 1984

Norma Jennings Class of 1984

Stephen Schwartz Class of 1984

Alvin New Class of 1984

Alan “A.J.” Moore Class of 1985

David Etheredge Class of 1985

Sherrel Mathews Class of 1985

Chakkrit Parapuntakul Class of 1985

Rev. Darren L. Skinner Class of 1985

Laura Lynn Keith Class of 1986

Betsy Choate Class of 1986

Brad Burnett Class of 1986

Barry Kniffen Class of 1986

Martha Anne Langston Class of 1986

Kerry Therwhanger Class of 1986

Jessica Robledo Class of 1986

Mitchell G. Perry Class of 1986

Erin Armstrong Class of 1986

Candis Rodgers Hicks Class of 1986