Advisory Council
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2024-2025
The College of Liberal Arts Advisory Council is a dedicated group of volunteers who all share a passion for the liberal arts. Members are made up of both alumni and friends of the college. Together with the dean, the Advisory Council works to further the college’s initiatives, both academic and philanthropic.
Leadership
Kim Monday, Chair
Rob Addy
Denver, CO
BA, Plan II Honors, 2000
Fields Alexander
Houston, TX
BA, English, 1987
JD 1992
Gordon Appleman
Fort Worth, TX
BA, Economics, 1959
JD, Harvard, 1962
Michael G. Appleman
Fort Worth, TX
BA, Plan II, 1990
JD 1993
Margaret Arrington
Dallas, TX
BA, Mathematics, 1961
Morton W. Baird, II
San Antonio, TX
BA, Plan II, 1971
JD 1975
Stephen P. Ballantyne
San Antonio, TX
BA, Economics, 1972
MBA, Finance, 1974
JD 1977
Steve Baron
Dallas, TX
BBA, 1986
JD 1988
Hailey Bechtol
Houston, TX
BA, History 1992
Peggy A. Beckham
Abilene, TX
BA, Plan II, 1956
Katy Burk-Cheema
Houston, TX
BA, History, 2011
Stephen R. Butter, Jr.
Austin, TX
BA, Plan II, 1993
BBA, Accounting, 1993
JD 2003
Cindy M. Carter
Dallas, TX
BBA 1973
Coby C. Chase
Austin, TX
BA, Government, 1986
Jim Cook
Austin, TX
BA, Economics, 1982
Christi L. Craddick
Austin, TX
BA, Plan II, 1991
JD 1995
Christina Melton Crain
Dallas, TX
BA, Government, 1988
JD 1991
Scott Crutchfield
Beaumont, TX
BA, Economics, 1989
JD, St. Mary's, 1991
Hilda and Greg Curran
Houston, TX
BA, Economics, 1990
Barry Dauber
New York, NY
BA, Economics, 2005
William C. Davidson, Jr.
Austin, TX
BA, Plan II, 1960
JD 1963
Clarice M. Davis
Dallas, TX
BA, Government, 1962
MA, Government, 1964
JD 1968
Sallie Carroll Davis
Houston, TX
BA, Plan II, 1965
Maureen H. Decherd
Dallas, TX
BA, English, 1973
Carolyn Denham
Pasadena, CA
BA, Plan II, 1966
Adrienne S. Draper
Houston, TX
BA, Plan II, 1988
Robert B. Dupree
Fort Worth, TX
BA, Government, 1986
Mary Jane Edwards
Fort Worth, TX
Robert B. Egan
Sugar Land, TX
BA, Economics, 1963
Craig Fisher
Austin, TX
BA History 1992
Becky Baskin Ferguson
Midland, TX
BS, Radio-TV-Film, 1976
Richard Frankel
Bellaire, TX
BA, Law, 1980
JD 1983
Mary Ann Frishman
Austin, TX
BA, Government, 1988
David Garza
Gonzalez, TX
BS, Pharmacy, 1970
Lawrence L. Germer
Austin, TX
BA, Plan II, 1963
JD 1966
Michael Gilbert
New York, NY
BA, Government 1996
Julius Glickman
Houston, TX
BA, Plan II, 1962
JD 1966
Bianna Golodryga
New York, NY
BA, Post-Soviet and East European Studies, 2000
Jerry R. Grammer, Ph.D.
Austin, TX
BA, Sociology, 1969
MA, SMU, Psychology, 1972
PhD, UT Southwestern Medical School Dallas, Psychology, 1982
Erika Griffith
Odenton, MD
BA, Linguistics, 1992
Michael and Courtney Grigsby
Austin, TX
BA, Government, 1992
Bachelor of Journalism, 1993
Katy Hackerman
Austin, TX
BA, English, 1980
Choquette Hamilton
Round Rock, TX
BA, Ethnic Studies, 2003
Mary Dell Harrington
Larchmont, NY
BA, Plan II, 1978
MBA, Harvard Business School, 1982
Judye G. Hartman
Houston, TX
BA, Math, 1964
Jeff Hayes
Port Arthur, TX
BBA 1962
Lisa C. Henken Ramirez
Austin, TX
BA, Psychology, 1998
Barbara Nelson Hinds
Houston, TX
BA, Plan II, 1962
Stephen Houston
Old Greenwich, CT
BA, Economics, 1989
MBA, Columbia University, 1992
Nomi Husain
Houston, TX
BA, Government, 1994
JD, South Texas College of Law, 1997
Sylvia Jabour
Austin, TX
BA, Plan II, 1990
JD/MBA, University of Houston, 1993
Melinda Nelson Jackson
Houston, TX
BA, Plan II, 1989
MBA 1993
William J. Jackson
Houston, TX
BA, Government, 1989
JD 1992
Vaishali Jadhav
Austin, TX
BA, Sociology, 1999
William E. Joor, III
Houston, TX
BA, Plan II, 1961
LLB, Harvard Law School, 1966
Lenoir M. Josey, II
Houston, TX
BA, Plan II, 1964
LLB/JD, 1966
MBA, Harvard, 1968
Patricia Kelso
San Francisco, CA
Suzon S. Kemp
Austin, TX
BA, Psychology, 2000
John C. Kerr
San Antonio, TX
JD, 1972
James Key
Houston, TX
BA, History, 1966
Shirley F. Kline
San Antonio, TX
BA, History, 1951
Sue Ellen Knolle, M.D.
Austin, TX
BA, Plan II, 1961
MD, UTMB Galveston, 1969
Richard Krumholz
Dallas, TX
BA, Psychology, 1989
Adam Lampert
Dallas, TX
BA, Plan II Honors, 1988
Ryan Latham
Midland, TX
BA, Plan II, 2005
JD, Baylor Law School, 2009
Sergio Leal
Bellaire, TX
BA Economics 2003
James Lehmann
San Antonio, TX
BA, Plan II, 1997
MD, UT Health San Antonio, 2001
Gregory O. Lipscomb
Austin, TX
BA, Liberal Arts, 1964
LLB/JD 1966
MPA, Harvard, Public Administration, 1978
MA, Johns Hopkins, Creative Writing, 2000
Patrick S. Lutts
San Antonio, TX
BA, Economics, 1962
Paul Martin
San Antonio, TX
Plan II, 1971-73
BA, St. John's College, 1980
Dan Matheson
Austin, TX
BA, American Civilization, 1971
Charles Matthews
Dallas, TX
BA, Government, 1967
JD, University of Houston, 1970
Tara G. McCown
Dallas, TX
BA, Liberal Arts, 1971
Kent McGaughy
Dallas, TX
BA, Plan II, 1994
MBA, Harvard, 1998
Brian T. McLaughlin
Midland, TX
BA, Plan II, 1983
JD 1986
Richard T. McMillan II
Fort Worth, TX
BA, History, 2003
JD 2006
Christopher Martin Meekins
Austin, TX
BA, Plan II, 1993
MBA 1997
JD 1997
Max K. Miller, Ph.D.
Austin, TX
BS, Physics, 1957
MA, Mathematics, 1963
PhD, Mathematics, 1966
Mildred (Mimi) Rose Miran, Ph.D.
Aldie, VA
BA, History and International Studies, 1959
MA, Linguistics and Japanese, 1970
PhD, Lingusitics, 1975
Kim Monday, M.D.
Houston, TX
BA, Plan II, 1988
MD, Baylor College of Medicine, 1992
Damon Munchus
New York, NY
BA, Plan II Honors, 1992
Luke Musselman
Midland, TX
BA, History, 1983
Fulton Murray
Fort Worth, TX
BA, Stanford University, Economics, 1988
MBA 1993
Al Nance
Houston,TX
BA, English, 1987
Brad Nes
Washington, D.C.
BA, Government, 2001
MSt, Oxford University, 2002
JD 2005
Milam Newby
Austin, TX
BA, Government, 2000
JD 2003
Dudley Oldham
Houston, TX
BA, Chemistry, 1964
LLB/JD 1966
Susan Palombo
Austin, TX
BA, Plan II, 1980
MBA, Minnesota, 2001
Robert L. Patton, Jr.
Fort Worth, TX
BBA, Finance, 1985
JD, St. Mary's University, 1988
LLM, SMU, 1989
Jeane H. Pendery
Dallas, TX
BA, German, 1967
Carrie J. Phaneuf
Dallas, TX
BA, Spanish, 1995
Marshall Phaneuf
Dallas, TX
BA, Economics, 1995
Mr. Robert E. Phaneuf
Tulsa, OK
BA, Psychology, 1968
MBA, Finance, 1972
Russell Post
Houston, TX
BA, Plan II, 1991
MA, History, Stanford University, 1992
JD, University of Virginia, 1996
Bethel Quander
Bellaire, TX
BA, History, 1993
Vasu Raja
Dallas, TX
BA, Humanities, 1998
Bill Reynolds
San Antonio, TX
BA, Architecture, 1972
MBA, Texas A&M Corpus Christi, 1983
Matthew R. Ridewood
San Antonio, TX
BA, Government, 2007
MA, UTSA, Political Science, 2015
Nancy Beth Roberts
Dallas, TX
BA, Plan II & History, 1961
Whit Roberts
Dallas, TX
BA, Plan II, 1988
MBA, University of Kent, 1989
JD 1992
Brett Robertson
Dallas, TX
BBA, Finance, 1987
MBA 1989
Amy Robinson
San Antonio, TX
BA, Plan II, 1989
MBA 1996
CIMA, Wharton, 2004
Melanie Rubin
Dallas, TX
BA, Plan II, 1989
MPA, LBJ, 1991
Tolly Salz
Dallas, TX
BA, Plan II, 1992
MLA, SMU, 2006
Lawrence Sampleton
Austin, TX
BA, St. Edward's University, 1991
Laura Sands
Dallas, TX
Lisa Sarvadi
Houston, TX
BBA, Engineering, 1989
Stefanie Scott
Austin, TX
Bachelor of Journalism, 1987
Leslie Shaunty
Houston, TX
BA, Government, 1990
Aaron Simpson
New York, NY
BA, Government, 1997
JD, UVA, 2002
Sandra E. Snyder
Dallas, TX
BA, Plan II, 1961
Will Snyder
Dallas, TX
BA, Plan II, 1989
JD 1992
Stuart Stedman
Houston, TX
BA, Plan II, 1979
MBA/JD 1985
Steven H. Stodghill
Dallas, TX
BA, Government, 1983
JD 1987
John Tatum
Dallas, TX
BA, Economics, 1989
Louann A. Temple
Austin, TX
BA, English, 1956
MA, American Civilization, 1990
Linda Ryan Thomas
Longview, TX
BA, English, 1958
John P. Thompson, Jr.
Dallas, TX
BA, SMU, Economics & Political Science, 1983
Peyton L. Townsend
Dallas, TX
BA, Government & History, 1962
Carl Tricoli
Houston, TX
BA, Psychology, 1977
Linda Van Bavel
Austin, TX
BA, Plan II Honors, 1990
Richard Vigness, M.D.
Fort Worth, TX
BA, History, 1977
Allison E. Wagner
Fort Worth, TX
BA, English, 1983
Tom Ward
Washington, DC
BA, Government, 1954
Marilyn M. White
Plano, TX
BA, Mathematics, 1959
Patrick Williams
Fort Worth, TX
BA, Psychology, 1997
Don Wukasch
Austin, TX
M.D. Baylor College of Medicine, 1962
MFA, Poetry, Vermont College of Fine Arts, 1999
Ph.D. (Honorary) United States Sports Academy, 2013
BA, History (Plan II, 1955-1958) 2017
James C. Wynne III
Tyler, TX
BA, English, 1993
Traci and John Young
Houston, TX
Traci - BA Spanish 1993
John - Plan II 1991
Karin Zaner
Dallas, TX
BA, Plan II, 1991
JD 1994
- Advisory Council Members A - Da
Fields Alexander
Houston, TX
BA, English, 1987
JD 1992Gordon Appleman
Fort Worth, TX
BA, Economics, 1959
JD, Harvard, 1962Michael G. Appleman
Fort Worth, TX
BA, Plan II, 1990
JD 1993Margaret Arrington
Dallas, TX
BA, Mathematics, 1961Morton W. Baird, II
San Antonio, TX
BA, Plan II, 1971
JD 1975Stephen P. Ballantyne
San Antonio, TX
BA, Economics, 1972
MBA, Finance, 1974
JD 1977Steve Baron
Dallas, TX
BBA, 1986
JD 1988Peggy A. Beckham
Abilene, TX
BA, Plan II, 1956Philip Benson
San Antonio, TX
BA, Government, 1963
JD, St. Mary's, 1968Ann B. Brinkerhoff
Houston, TX
BA, Sociology, 1949Gary E. Bushell
Austin, TX
BA, Economics, 1964
JD 1967Stephen R. Butter, Jr.
Austin, TX
BA, Plan II, 1993
BBA, Accounting, 1993
JD 2003Cindy M. Carter
Dallas, TX
BBA 1973Coby C. Chase
Austin, TX
BA, Government, 1986Jim Cook
Austin, TX
BA, Economics, 1982Christi L. Craddick
Austin, TX
BA, Plan II, 1991
JD 1995Christina Melton Crain
Dallas, TX
BA, Government, 1988
JD 1991Scott Crutchfield
Beaumont, TX
BA, Economics, 1989
JD, St. Mary's, 1991Hilda and Greg Curran
Houston, TX
BA, Economics, 1990Barry Dauber
San Francisco, CA
BA, Economics, 2005William C. Davidson, Jr.
Austin, TX
BA, Plan II, 1960
JD 1963Clarice M. Davis
Dallas, TX
BA, Government, 1962
MA, Government, 1964
JD 1968Sallie Carroll Davis
Houston, TX
BA, Plan II, 1965 - Advisory Council Members Da - H
Kathleen Dawson
Houston, TX
BA, English, 1987Barry Dauber
San Francisco, CA
BA, Economics, 2005Maureen H. Decherd
Dallas, TX
BA, English, 1973Carolyn Denham
Pasadena, CA
BA, Plan II, 1966Adrienne S. Draper
Houston, TX
BA, Plan II, 1988Robert B. Dupree
Fort Worth, TX
BA, Government, 1986Mary Jane Edwards
Fort Worth, TXRobert B. Egan
Sugar Land, TX
BA, Economics, 1963Becky Baskin Ferguson
Midland, TX
BS, Radio-TV-Film, 1976Richard Frankel
Bellaire, TX
BA, Law, 1980
JD 1983Mary Ann Frishman
Austin, TX
BA, Government, 1988David G. Genecov, M.D.
Dallas, TX
BA, Plan II, 1985
MD 1990Lawrence L. Germer
Austin, TX
BA, Plan II, 1963
JD 1966Julius Glickman
Houston, TX
BA, Plan II, 1962
JD 1966Jerry R. Grammer, Ph.D.
Austin, TX
BA, Sociology, 1969
MA, SMU, Psychology, 1972
PhD, UT Southwestern Medical School Dallas, Psychology, 1982Katy Hackerman
Austin, TX
BA, English, 1980Mary Dell Harrington
Larchmont, NY
BA, Plan II, 1978
MBA, Harvard Business School, 1982Judye G. Hartman
Houston, TX
BA, Math, 1964Jeff Hayes
Port Arthur, TX
BBA 1962Lisa C. Henken Ramirez
Austin, TX
BA, Psychology, 1998Barbara Nelson Hinds
Houston, TX
BA, Plan II, 1962Stephen Houston
Old Greenwich, CT
BA, Economics, 1989
MBA, Columbia University, 1992Robert C. Hunter
Houston, TX
BA, Plan II, 1963
MBA, Stanford, 1965Nomi Husain
Houston, TX
BA, Government, 1994
JD, South Texas College of Law, 1997 - Advisory Council Members J - McG
Sylvia Jabour
Austin, TX
BA, Plan II, 1990
JD/MBA, University of Houston, 1993Melinda Nelson Jackson
Houston, TX
BA, Plan II, 1989
MBA 1993William J. Jackson
Houston, TX
BA, Government, 1989
JD 1992William E. Joor, III
Houston, TX
BA, Plan II, 1961
LLB, Harvard Law School, 1966Lenoir M. Josey, II
Houston, TX
BA, Plan II, 1964
LLB/JD, 1966
MBA, Harvard, 1968Patricia Kelso
San Francisco, CASuzon S. Kemp
Austin, TX
BA, Psychology, 2000John C. Kerr
San Antonio, TX
JD, 1972James Key
Houston, TX
BA, History, 1966Shirley F. Kline
San Antonio, TX
BA, History, 1951Sue Ellen Knolle, M.D.
Austin, TX
BA, Plan II, 1961
MD, UTMB Galveston, 1969Whitney Lancaster
Darien, CT
BA, Economics, 1995
MBA, Columbia, 2002Ryan Latham
Midland, TX
BA, Plan II, 2005
JD, Baylor Law School, 2009James Lehmann
San Antonio, TX
BA, Plan II, 1997
MD, UT Health San Antonio, 2001Gregory O. Lipscomb
Austin, TX
BA, Liberal Arts, 1964
LLB/JD 1966
MPA, Harvard, Public Administration, 1978
MA, Johns Hopkins, Creative Writing, 2000Patrick S. Lutts
San Antonio, TX
BA, Economics, 1962Paul Martin
San Antonio, TX
Plan II, 1971-73
BA, St. John's College, 1980LaVonne Mason
Austin, TX
BS, Howard University, General Home Economics, 1969
MEd, Prairie View A&M University, Guidance & Counseling, 1974Dan Matheson
Austin, TX
BA, American Civilization, 1971Bill Matthews
Houston, TX
Plan II, Law 1963Charles Matthews
Dallas, TX
BA, Government, 1967
JD, University of Houston, 1970James W. McBride
Washington, DC
BA, Plan II, 1961
JD 1962Tara G. McCown
Dallas, TX
BA, Liberal Arts, 1971Kent McGaughy
Dallas, TX
BA, Plan II, 1994
MBA, Harvard, 1998 - Advisory Council Members McI - Ro
Virginia L. McIntyre
Houston, TX
BA, Computer Science, 1977Brian T. McLaughlin
Midland, TX
BA, Plan II, 1983
JD 1986Richard T. McMillan II
Fort Worth, TX
BA, History, 2003
JD 2006Christopher Martin Meekins
Los Angeles, CA
BA, Plan II, 1993
MBA 1997
JD 1997Max K. Miller, Ph.D.
Austin, TX
BS, Physics, 1957
MA, Mathematics, 1963
PhD, Mathematics, 1966Mildred (Mimi) Rose Miran, Ph.D.
Aldie, VA
BA, History and International Studies, 1959
MA, Linguistics and Japanese, 1970
PhD, Lingusitics, 1975Kim Monday, M.D.
Houston, TX
BA, Plan II, 1988
MD, Baylor College of Medicine, 1992Fulton Murray
Fort Worth, TX
BA, Stanford University, Economics, 1988
MBA 1993Luke Musselman
Midland, TX
BA, History, 2006Brad Nes
Washington, D.C.
BA, Government, 2001
MSt, Oxford University, 2002
JD 2005Milam Newby
Austin, TX
BA, Government, 2000
JD 2003Dudley Oldham
Houston, TX
BA, Chemistry, 1964
LLB/JD 1966Susan Palombo
Austin, TX
BA, Plan II, 1980
MBA, Minnesota, 2001Robert L. Patton, Jr.
Fort Worth, TX
BBA, Finance, 1985
JD, St. Mary's University, 1988
LLM, SMU, 1989Jeane H. Pendery
Dallas, TX
BA, German, 1967Robert E. Phaneuf
Broken Arrow, OK
BA, Psychology, 1968
MBA, Finance, 1972Russell Post
Houston, TX
BA, Plan II, 1991
MA, History, Stanford University, 1992
JD, University of Virginia, 1996Bethel Quander
Bellaire, TX
BA, History, 1993Bill Reynolds
San Antonio, TX
BA, Architecture, 1972
MBA, Texas A&M Corpus Christi, 1983Matthew R. Ridewood
San Antonio, TX
BA, Government, 2007
MA, UTSA, Political Science, 2015Nancy Beth Roberts
Dallas, TX
BA, Plan II & History, 1961Whit Roberts
Dallas, TX
BA, Plan II, 1988
MBA, University of Kent, 1989
JD 1992Brett Robertson
Dallas, TX
BBA, Finance, 1987
MBA 1989Amy Abbey Robinson
San Antonio, TX
BA, Plan II, 1989
MBA 1996
CIMA, Wharton, 2004 - Advisory Council Members Ru - Z
Melanie Rubin
Dallas, TX
BA, Plan II, 1989
MPA, LBJ, 1991Tolly Salz
Dallas, TX
BA, Plan II, 1992
MLA, SMU, 2006Lawrence Sampleton
Austin, TX
BA, St. Edward's University, 1991Lisa Sarvadi
Houston, TX
BBA, Engineering, 1989Kimberly Schmid
Austin, TX
BA, English, 1998
JD 2001Aaron Simpson
New York, NY
BA, Government, 1997
JD, UVA, 2002David P. Smith, Sr.
Dallas, TX
BA, Plan II, 1967
JD 1968Sandra E. Snyder
Dallas, TX
BA, Plan II, 1961Will Snyder
Dallas, TX
BA, Plan II, 1989
JD 1992Stuart Stedman
Houston, TX
BA, Plan II, 1979
MBA/JD 1985Steven H. Stodghill
Dallas, TX
BA, Government, 1983
JD 1987John Tatum
Dallas, TX
BA, Economics, 1989Louann A. Temple
Austin, TX
BA, English, 1956
MA, American Civilization, 1990Linda Ryan Thomas
Longview, TX
BA, English, 1958John P. Thompson, Jr.
Dallas, TX
BA, SMU, Economics & Political Science, 1983Peyton L. Townsend
Dallas, TX
BA, Government & History, 1962Richard Vigness, M.D.
Fort Worth, TX
BA, History, 1977Allison E. Wagner
Fort Worth, TX
BA, English, 1983Patrick P. Walker
Dallas, TX
BA, Plan II, 1994
BBA Finance, 1994
MBA, Stanford, 1999Tom Ward
Washington, DC
BA, Government, 1954Marilyn M. White
Plano, TX
BA, Mathematics, 1959Patrick Williams
Fort Worth, TX
BA, Psychology, 1997Don Wukasch
Austin, TX
M.D. Baylor College of Medicine, 1962
MFA, Poetry, Vermont College of Fine Arts, 1999
Ph.D. (Honorary) United States Sports Academy, 2013
BA, History (Plan II, 1955-1958) 2017James C. Wynne III
Tyler, TX
BA, English, 1993Karin Zaner
Dallas, TX
BA, Plan II, 1991
JD 1994