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Trustee Profiles
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Lloyd "Skip" Jenkins is currently serving his third term on
the board, having first been elected in 2002 and then again
in 2005 and 2008. Prior to being elected by trustees as board president in 2008, he served as board secretary for three consecutive years.
He has been a practicing CPA (certified public accountant) for 30 years
in the Plano area. He holds a bachelor's degree
in accounting and a master's degree
in finance from Michigan State University.
He has served as a member and past president of the Plano ISD Education Foundation
and past president of the Plano Rotary Club. He has also
served on the board of directors of the Plano Children's Medical Clinic,
Rotary District 5810 vocational service chair, board member and counselor
for Rotary Camp RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Award), Journey of Hope facilitator, and is a graduate
of Leadership Plano, Leadership TASB (Texas Association of School Boards),and the Plano Citizen's Police Academy. In addition, he has earned the designation of "Master Trustee" from the Texas Association of School Boards and is a charter Fellow with The Center for Reform of School Systems.
In 2005, he was honored with the Leadership Plano Executive Board's Distinguished Leadership Award.
(469) 752-8282
lloyd.jenkins@pisd.edu
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Brad Shanklin
Vice-president - Place 4
Brad Shanklin is serving his second term as a member of the board of trustees,
having been re-elected in May, 2008. Mr. Shanklin is currently the President/CEO
of the Plano Chamber of Commerce and has more than 20 years of experience
in the not-for-profit sector. Prior to coming to the Chamber, he
spent 14
years with the American Heart Association’s National Center, New
Mexico and Houston offices. Before that, he worked for the late Senator
John Tower in Austin.
Mr. Shanklin’s current volunteer work includes time devoted to Plano
ISD including service on the Blue Ribbon Boundary Committee and as
co-chair of the 2004 Facilities & Technology Bond Task Force, the Education
Foundation Board, the Taste of Plano Committee and the Teacher of
the Year Selection Committee. He has served on two school based improvement
committees
and most recently started a Dads Club at Schimelpfenig Middle School.
He is a long-standing member of PTA at Mathews Elementary, Schimelpfenig
Middle School and Jasper High School and is the recipient of a PTA Life Membership Award. In 2004, he was named as one of “21 Leaders for the 21st Century” by "Inside Collin County Business." He is a member
of the Plano Rotary Club, a graduate of Leadership Plano and is active
in his church.
Mr. Shanklin is a graduate of the University of Texas in Austin where
he received his bachelor of science degree in communication studies.
He and his wife Julia are natives of Texas and have lived in Plano
since 1997.
They have two children, Natalie and Connor, who attend school in Plano
ISD.
(469) 752-8993
brad.shanklin@pisd.edu
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Missy Bender
Secretary - Place 7
Missy Bender was elected in May 2006 and is serving her first term on the school board. She moved to Plano in 1975 and graduated from Plano East Senior High as a member of its charter class.
Missy received a bachelor’s degree in Marketing from Southern Methodist University and began her career as a management consultant specializing in solving business problems and implementing technology solutions for large distribution and manufacturing clients in North America and Europe. She has worked for Champion International, Amdahl and IBM. At IBM, she received the Golden Circle Award, the company's highest honor.
Missy has served on the Board of Directors for the Junior League of Plano, Plano Metro Rotary Club, and Forrest Outreach Foundation. She is also a graduate of Leadership Plano Class 23, Leadership St. Andrew, and Leadership TASB. She has earned the designation of “Master Trustee” from the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) and is a Fellow with the Center for Reform of School Systems. In 2006 she was named as one of “21 Leaders for the 21st Century” by "Inside Collin County Business."
Missy has served as a member of the TASB Legislative Advisory Council, the district delegate to the TASB annual conference, the school board liaison to Practical Parent Education and to Head Start Parent Policy Council. She served on Plano ISD's District Based Improvement Committee, a School Based Improvement Committee, as a Plano ISD Key Communicator, a member of the PISD Head Start Task Force, and as 2nd vice-president of PTA Membership at Daffron Elementary School. She has also served as the PTA directory co-chair and the PTA office coordinator.
(469) 752-8264
missy.bender@pisd.edu
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Mary Beth King
Place 2
Mary Beth King was elected to serve her fifth board term in 2007. Her peers
on the board elected her to serve as president of the board from
2001 to 2005. At the state level, she serves as a member of the board
for the Texas Association of School Boards, on which she
is currently serving as chair of the member services committee, chair of the superintendent of the year committee and as a member of the nominations committee. She is the recipient
of the 2001 Distinguished Leadership Award presented by Leadership
Plano and the Community
Leadership
Association. She hails from Xenia, Ohio, and has lived in Plano since
1977.
(469) 752-8278
marybeth.king@pisd.edu
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John Muns
Place 3
John Muns is the sole Trustee to claim Plano as his home town. He is
firmly rooted in Plano ISD, having attended Plano schools and graduated
from Plano Senior High School. Re-elected in 2007, he is currently
serving his fifth term on the board. He has been a partner with Muns
Enterprises since 1990, formerly working for
eight
years as vice-president
of real
estate and construction for Wyatt Cafeterias.
He holds a bachelor’s
degree in Business Administration from Abilene Christian University.
His civic service has included serving
on the
boards of the Volunteer Center of Collin County, Civic Center Advisory
Board,
Plano YMCA, Plano Sports Authority, Children’s Medical Center and
Leadership Plano.
(469) 752-8917
john.muns@pisd.edu
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Melody Timinsky
Place 6
Melody Timinsky is currently serving her third term on the board, during which time her fellow trustees elected her to serve as
board vice-president for three consecutive years. She is currently Chief
Operating Officer for Big
Thought, a non-profit arts learning
organization, and has more than 25 years of diversified professional
experience in both the
corporate and non-profit environments.
Her civic involvement has included serving as president
of the board of directors for The Classics and as an advisory
director for the
Head Start Policy Council. She has mentored Plano ISD students
in three schools and served as a Girl Scout assistant leader. As
a school leader, Melody has served as president of the Aldridge Elementary
School PTA (whose board was nominated for the 1998 Collin
County Volunteer Group of the Year), and is currently a member
of the Bowman PTA and Williams High School PTSA.
She has chaired the Arts
in Education programs for
the Plano ISD Council of PTAs, served as an advisory director
for Practical Parent Education and as a Plano ISD Key Communicator.
She is a graduate of the Leadership Texas Class of 1996 and the
Leadership Plano Class of 2002.
Melody
received her undergraduate degree in theoretical
mathematics from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville,
and her master's degree in business administration from the University
of Dallas in Irving.
She has been a resident of Plano ISD since 1991.
(469) 752-8283
melody.timinsky@pisd.edu
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Duncan Webb
Place 1
Duncan Webb, principal of the law firm Webb & Webb, P.C.,
is currently serving his fourth term on the board. During his tenure as a trustee, he has held the offices of president, vice-president and secretary of the board. He has had a
successful career as an attorney in Dallas and Plano since
1980. In fact,
during the three years "Inside Collin County Business" conducted
its annual awards, Duncan was voted "Best Business Lawyer" in
Collin Country all three years and "Best Business Tax Consultant" one
year. He is a Sustaining Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation
and the Collin County Bar Foundation and serves on the District
1A
Grievance Committee of the State Bar of Texas. Duncan is
also a member of numerous national, state and local bar associations
and legal organizations. He received his Bachelor of Business
Administration and Juris Doctor degrees from Southern Methodist
University.
Duncan has earned the designation of “Master Trustee” from the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB). He is a graduate of Leadership Plano Class 10, and he has been recognized with a Texas PTA Lifetime Award. Duncan
has served on community boards including Leadership Plano,
City of Plano Library Advisory Board (chair for two years),
Assistance Center of Collin County (chair for one year),
The Classics (president),
Plano Family YMCA and Christ United Methodist Church. Duncan
is currently on the Board of Trustees for Medical Center
of Plano. He
has been a resident of Plano since 1983.
(469) 752-8284
duncan.webb@pisd.edu
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Dr. Douglas Otto
Superintendent of Schools
Dr. Douglas Otto is widely acknowledged as one of the nation's leaders in educational technology, school administration and school finance. He has led the 54,000-student Plano Independent School District since 1995 overseeing its rapid growth in student enrollment in a challenging school finance system.
The American Association for School Administrators recognized his accomplishments with its Leadership for Learning Award in 2000 for the total integration of technology into the elementary curriculum. He was named by eSchool News as one of 12 Tech-Savvy Superintendents from across the nation and was also selected as the Region 10 Service Center's nominee for Texas Superintendent of the Year in 2001. He was inducted into the Illinois State University College of Education Hall of Fame in 2002. And, in the year 2008, Dr. Otto was named as one of “21 Leaders for the 21st Century” by "Inside Collin County Business."
Doug Otto serves as president of the Texas Schools Finance Coalition and has also served on school finance reform panels in Indiana and Minnesota. In addition, he is on the national advisory board for Practical Parent Education and the Horace Mann League. He is sought as a presenter at state and national conferences and also shares his expertise as an adjunct professor at the University of North Texas and the University of Texas.
Prior to joining Plano ISD, he served as superintendent of schools in the Anoka-Hennepin school district in Minnesota for five years. He previously led the Metropolitan School District of Warren Township in Indianapolis, Indiana, from 1987 to 1990; the North Scott School Community District in Eldridge, Iowa; and the Rockridge Community Unit School District in Taylor Ridge, Illinois.
His previous experience includes three years as a high school principal in Taylor Ridge, Illinois, and experience as a business education teacher in Dundee, Illinois.
Dr. Otto completed his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois. He has a bachelor's degree in business education and master's and doctorate degrees in educational administration.
(469) 752-8122
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