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Trustee Profiles
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Tammy Richards
President ~ Place 1
Ms. Richards was elected in May 2010 to serve her first term on the school board. Her fellow trustees elected her to serve as board president for the 2011-12 school year. She is associate dean of the Lyle School of Engineering at Southern Methodist University. She has also held executive positions at Texas Instruments, including vice president of marketing and customer service for the educational technology business. Ms. Richards is a Texas registered professional engineer.
Throughout her career, Ms. Richards has worked with a number of local, state and national educational organizations, including the Texas Education Agency, the Texas State Board of Education, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, the Texas Business Education Coalition, the Texas High School Project, the Texas Workforce Commission, the National Council Teachers of Mathematics and the National Science Teachers Association.
Ms. Richards received her bachelor of science degree in industrial engineering from Texas A&M University (summa cum laude) and a master of business administration degree from Harvard University. Ms. Richards and her family have lived in Plano for twenty-three years. She and her husband Mike Douglass have two children attending Plano ISD schools.
(469) 752-8917
tammy.richards@pisd.edu
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Nancy Humphrey
Vice President ~ Place 3
Ms. Humphrey was elected to serve her first term on the school board in May 2010. Her fellow trustees voted to elect her to serve as board vice president for the 2011-12 school year. Since 2002, she has been an active PTA volunteer and officer, having served as president and treasurer of Murphy Middle School PTA and treasurer, vice president/ways & means, and vice president/membership at Stinson Elementary PTA, as well as having chaired several committees. She became a Texas PTA Honorary Life Member in 2006.
In her community, Ms. Humphrey has been involved with a number of organizations including Canyon Creek Presbyterian Church, Bentwood Trail Presbyterian Church, Boy Scouts of America, Heritage Farmstead Museum, Austin St. Centre, Operation Kindness and SPCA. She has also been selected to serve on the Board of Directors of the Plano Rotary Club.
Ms. Humphrey is a graduate of the University of North Texas with bachelor's and master's degrees in accounting. She has fifteen years of experience in both public accounting and private industry. Ms. Humphrey is a native Texan and has been a resident of Plano ISD for eighteen years. She and her husband Jim have two children attending school in the district.
(469) 752-8284
nancy.humphrey@pisd.edu
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Marilyn Hinton
Secretary ~ Place 6
Ms. Hinton was elected to serve her first term on the school board in 2009. Her fellow trustees elected her to serve as secretary of the board for the 2011-12 school year. She is a former teacher in Plano ISD's Head Start program and a 17-year resident of the Plano ISD community.
In addition to teaching, Ms. Hinton has professional experience in serving as a youth director for a nonprofit agency for homeless and transitional families, as a visiting scholar teaching early childhood education at Brookhaven College and as a counselor and adjunct professor at Richland College. Ms. Hinton earned a bachelor’s degree in speech and drama at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, and a master's degree in education at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
Ms. Hinton currently mentors several students throughout the school district and is a member of the Meadows Elementary School PTA. She also chairs the Family Services Committee for South Collin County Habitat for Humanity, a member of the Plano Symphony Orchestra Virtuoso Society, is a graduate of Leadership Plano Class 27, volunteers with the Children's Advocacy Center and teaches Sunday School.
Ms. Hinton's former community service includes serving on the board of directors of the Plano Metro Rotary Club, Plano ISD Diversity Advisory Committee, on two School Based Improvement Committees and as a member of Jack and Jill, Inc.
She has been married to her husband, Jim, a family practice physician, for 31 years. They have resided in the Plano area since in1994. Their two daughters graduated from Plano West and their oldest daughter graduated from Smith College in Northampton, MA and received a PhD in Clinical Psychology from UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. She currently does testing and evaluations for the Dallas County Juvenile Detention Center. Their youngest daughter graduated from Princeton University in NewJersey and went on to receive a Masters Degree in Education from Harvard University in MA. She is employed by the Children's Defense Fund in Washington, D.C., as a child welfare policy associate.
(469) 752-8283
marilyn.hinton@pisd.edu
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Missy Bender
Place 7
Ms. Bender was elected to serve a second term in May 2009. She held the office of board secretary from 2008 to 2011. Ms. Bender graduated from Plano East Senior High School as a member of its charter class. She received a bachelor’s degree in marketing from Southern Methodist University and began her career as a management consultant specializing in strategic planning and technology solutions for Fortune 500 clients in North America and Europe. She has worked for Champion International, Amdahl and IBM. At IBM she was honored with the Golden Circle Award, the company’s elite recognition.
Ms.
Bender has served on the Boards of Directors for the Junior League of
Plano, Plano Metro Rotary Club, Harrington Homeplace Homeowners
Association, Practical
Parent Education and Forrest Outreach Foundation. She currently serves
as a member of the Chairman’s Council for Texas Health Resources Plano,
Conner Harrington Republican Women and National Charity League. Ms.
Bender is a graduate of Leadership Plano, Leadership
St. Andrew and Leadership TASB (Texas Association of School Boards).
She was recently selected as a member of Leadership Texas in addition to
being appointed by the Texas Education Agency to its Accountability
Policy Advisory Committee. Ms.
Bender earned the prestigious designation of "Master Trustee" from
TASB, is a Fellow with the Center for Reform of School Systems and was
named one of "21 Leaders for the 21st Century" by Inside
Collin County Business.
She is a co-founder of Trustees for Texas, an organization whose purpose is to create a unified and powerful voice to transform education in Texas. She is also a frequent presenter at school board conferences with other trustees and superintendents across Texas. Ms. Bender has served on the TASB Legislative Advocacy Committee and frequently testifies to the legislative education committees on behalf of Plano ISD and all Texas school districts. Ms. Bender has also represented the district as a member of the Federal Relations Network in Washington, DC.
Before her service as a trustee, Ms. Bender served the district as a member of Plano ISD’s District Based Improvement Committee, a School Based Improvement Committee, Plano ISD Key Communicator, member of the Plano ISD Head Start Task Force and as a PTA board officer at Daffron Elementary School. Ms. Bender has lived in Plano for 23 years. She and her husband Doug have been married for 24 years. Their daughter attends Robinson Middle School.
(469) 752-8264
missy.bender@pisd.edu
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Michael Friedman
Place 4 Mr. Friedman was elected to serve his first term on the board in May, 2011. A senior vice president of retail brokerage services for CB Richard Ellis, Inc., Mr. Friedman earned his bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of North Texas and his master's degree in design studies from Harvard University.
Born In Dallas, Mr. Friedman is a graduate of Hillcrest High School in Dallas ISD. His recent accomplishments include capturing the Stemmons Service Award - the highest honor bestowed in the commercial real estate industry in Dallas - as well as being named a recent national honoree of the Hebrew Free Loan Association. He also earned the rank of Eagle Scout in the late 1960s.
His community service has included performing as "Smiley the Clown" for terminally ill children at Children’s Medical Center of Dallas and Medical City Dallas; serving on the board of directors for the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation of Dallas, the Jewish Federation of Dallas, the Bicentennial Lions Club (past president), UNT Alumni Association, Harvard Real Estate Academic Initiative, Cancer Foundation for Life, Jewish Family Services and Legacy Senior Communities Plano/Dallas (chairman). He also served two terms as president of his college fraternity.
Mr. Friedman and his wife Terry, a former Dallas ISD teacher and current Plano ISD substitute teacher, have three children. Their two daughters are graduates of Plano West Senior High School, and their son attends Frankford Middle School.
(469) 752-8993
michael.friedman@pisd.edu
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Carrolyn Moebius
Place 2
Ms. Moebius was elected to serve her first term on the school board in May
2010. She and her husband Jim run a family-owned veterinary hospital
where she serves as the administrator. She has previously
worked as an auditor for Ernst and Young in Houston and Doll, Karahal and
Company in Dallas.
Ms. Moebius served as treasurer and president of
the Martha Hunt Elementary School PTA. She has also served as vice president of volunteers at
Murphy Middle School
and as a member of the Murphy School Based Improvement Committee. She is a member of Plano Rotary International and a graduate of Leadership Plano Class 28.
Ms. Moebius attended the
University of St. Thomas and earned a bachelor of arts degree from
Trinity University in San Antonio. She has three children attending Plano ISD schools, at which she has served as a PTA member for 10 years. She has also served on the Plano ISD Council of PTAs'
Legislative Committee and was honored with the PTA Life Membership Award
in 2009.
(469) 752-8278
carrolyn.moebius@pisd.edu
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David Stolle
Place 5
David Stolle was elected in 2011 to serve in his first term on the school board. For the past decade, he has worked at Jackson Walker L.L.P., where he is now a partner with a practice in finance. He formerly served as a high school English teacher in Palestine, Texas. Mr. Stolle has earned a bachelor's degree in English from Texas A&M University, a master's degree in English from the University of Texas at Tyler, and a law degree from St. Mary’s University School of Law.
Mr. Stolle has served as co-chair of the Jackson Walker L.L.P. United Way campaign and has spent a number of years coaching his children's youth sports. During the past eight years, he and his wife have been members of the PTAs at Jackson Elementary School, Frankford Middle School and Shepton High School. He has also served as videographer for the Frankford and Shepton football teams.
During law school, Mr. Stolle served as a staff writer and as the executive editor of the St. Mary's Law Journal while earning his JD from the university. He was named by Thomson Reuters in 2010 as a "Rising Star" in Texas - attorneys who are either 40 years old and under or who have been practicing law for ten or fewer years. Plano ISD residents for the past nine years, Mr. Stolle and his wife Cristy have three children attending Plano schools.
(469) 752-8282
david.stolle@pisd.edu
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