Foundation Board

Business & Professional Information: Owner, Social Graces by Mindy Wendele

Education: Economic Development Institute – University of Oklahoma

Community Activities & Involvement:
• Executive Board of the Kerrville Area Chamber of Commerce (Current)
• Chairman – Kerrville Convention & Visitor Bureau (Current)
• Vice Chair – City of Kerrville TIRZ Board (Current)
• Kerrville City Council
• President – Women’s Chamber & Executive Women’s Club
• Trustee – Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country
• Regional Council for LCRA
• Executive Board – Texas Downtown Association
• Board – Hill Country Youth Ranch
• Board – Habitat for Humanity
• Kerrville Rotary
• Kerrville Chalk Festival
• Leadership roles in many civic, social, church and school groups

Favorite Quote or Saying: “Be pure of heart in everything you do. Work hard, keeping your standards high, while giving thanks for the endless possibilities awaiting.” – Marj Nicholson, my mother & founder – PRMC Auxiliary

Business & Professional Information: Owner/Publisher, Hill Country Community Journal

Community Activities & Involvement:
• Rotary Club of Kerrville since 2005
• Texas Press Association 2005
• Kerrville Area Chamber of Commerce since 1999
• Chamber of Commerce Member
• Tivy Athletic Booster Club past member
• Notre Dame Catholic Church since 1993
• Kerrville Little League (coach 3 years)
• YMCA Basketball (coach 3 years)
• KerrEDC Top 40 recipient – 2021
• Rotary Club of Kerrville President 2020-2021
• Rotarian of the Year – 2018

Favorite Quote or Saying: “We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.” – Ronald Reagan

Business & Professional Information: Retired teacher, social worker, non-profit manager, and special education tutor, former Mayor and Councilmember, Port Arthur, Texas; Headwaters Groundwater Conservation District Board, Precinct 2, and Kerrville City Council member.

Education: BA English – Abilene Christian College, MPA, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Community Activities & Involvement:
• First Presbyterian Church, Elder
• Guatemala Partnership of Mission Presbytery, Member
• Kerr Konnect, Driver
• Secretary of the Hill Country Chapter for Texas Democratic Women
• Member of the Hill Country Chapter for League of Women Voters
• Kerr County Democratic Party, 212 Precinct Chair

Favorite Quote or Saying: “None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody – a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony, or a few nuns – bent down and helped us pick up our boots.” – Thurgood Marshall

Business & Professional Information: Owner, Moore’s Home Furnishings

Education: MBA – University of Texas at Austin

Community Activities & Involvement:
• President, Kerrville Public School Foundation
• Adjunct Business Professor, Schreiner University
• Mentor, Kerrville ISD
• Board of Directors, Upper Guadalupe River Center
• Sunday School Teacher, Kerrville First United Methodist Church
• PTO Volunteer, Nimitz Elem.; BT Wilson School; Peterson Middle School; & Tivy High School

Favorite Quote or Saying: From my father, “Live boldly and be significant.”

Business & Professional Information: Owner, John W. Miller, Jr., Co. Inc.

Education: University of Texas

Community Activities & Involvement:
• Past President Hill Country Crisis Council
• Past President Partners in Ministry
• Founding member of Christian Men’s Job Corpse
• Past President Zion Lutheran Church Council
• Past President of River Hill Board of Directors
• Kerrville Daily Times Citizen of the Year 2012
• Peterson Health Foundation Board of Directors

Favorite Quote or Saying: “Whatever you did for he least of these you did for me” – Matthew 25:40

Business & Professional Information: Community Volunteer, City of Kerrville

Education: BA in Communications – Baylor University

Community Activities & Involvement:
• Kerrville United Methodist Church
• Kerrville Public School Foundation
• Parent Teacher Organization (Tivy, Peterson, BT Wilson, Nimitz)
• Kerrville Area Aggie Mom’s Club
• Kerrville Junior Service Guild

Favorite Quote or Saying: “The more grateful I am, the more beauty I see.” – Mary Davis

Business & Professional Information: Physician Consultant for Quality & Utilization Management (Retired), Peterson Health

Education: MD – UTHSCSA

Community Activities & Involvement:
• Peterson Health Board of Directors 2013-2022
• American Heart Association, Past President & Honoree
• EMS Advisory Board 1994-1996, ACLS instructor
• Kerr Country Young Life Steering Committee & Co-chair
• Kerrville Youth Soccer, Basketball, Little League Coach, Sponsor, Referee
• Salvation Army Medical Clinic Volunteer Physician & Director
• Tivy HS Volunteer Instructor & Sponsor of Debate, Mock Trial, Soccer, Project Graduation

Favorite Quote or Saying: “Success is the consequence of attention to detail being supported by excellent communication and dedication.” – Tim Caris, MD, at 1974 Medical School Graduation

Business & Professional Information:
• Physician currently practicing at Peterson Regional Medical Center
• Director, Department of Radiology, Peterson Regional Medical Center
• Former Chief of Staff, Sid Peterson Memorial Hospital
• Member, The American Board of Radiology
• Member, Texas Medical Association

Education: M.D. – University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, Radiology Residency – Scott & White Hospital, MRI Fellowship – Baylor College of Medicine

Communities Activities & Involvement:
• Kerrville Youth Soccer Association, Coach and Sponsor
• Ingram Little Dribblers Basketball, Coach and Sponsor
• Raphael Community Free Clinic

Favorite Quote or Saying: “Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” – Theodore Roosevelt

Business & Professional Information: Financial Coordinator, Risinger Orthodontics

Education: Bachelor of Business Administration – Angelo State University

Community Activities & Involvement:
• Tivy Antler Football & Volleyball, Team Parent
• Tivy Project Graduation
• Sisterhood For Good
• Parent Teacher Organization Officer and Volunteer (Tally Elementary, BT Wilson School, Peterson Middle School, Tivy High School)
• Kid’s Advocacy Place
• Hill Country Charity Ball Association

Favorite Quote or Saying: “Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love.” – Mother Teresa

Business & Professional Information: Owner (Retired), Falling Rock Ranch

Education: Bachelor’s Degree – Texas A&M

Community Activities & Involvement:
• West Kerr Current reporter
• Hill Country Telephone Director
• Founder of the Hill Country Breast Cancer Support Group
• Member, Past Board of Director and President’s Award Recipient with the West Kerr Chamber of Commerce
• Hunt Garden Club member
• First Thursday Group member
• 2022 Kerr County GOP State Convention Delegate
• Past Member of the Board of Directors for the Frontier Times Museum in Bandera
• Member of the Hill Country Kappa Alumna
• Owner of a public relations company and contributing writer for Houston Lifestyle Magazine

Favorite Quote or Saying: “You have two hands: One to help yourself, the second to help others.” – Audrey Hepburn

Business & Professional Information: Broker/Owner – Brinkman Commercial Properties, LLC. and Mountain Street Real Estate Company

Community Activities & Involvement:
• Member of Kerrville’s TIRZ#1 Board and Development Services Community Group
• Peterson Health Foundation Board
• Member of the National Association of Realtors
• Active participant in City Council, Economic Improvement Corporation, and Planning and Zoning Commission meetings

Favorite Quote or Saying: “The hardest thing in the world is to simplify your life. It is so easy to make it complex.” – Yvon Chouinard

Business & Professional Information: President/CEO, Texas Hill Country Bank

Education: B.B.A. in Finance (Real Estate) – Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

Community Activities & Involvement:
• Member of the Kerrville Noon Rotary Club
• Past Chairman of Kerrville Economic Development Foundation
• Past President of the Kerrville Area Chamber of Commerce
• Past President and Board Member of the Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country
• Founding member of the Young Men’s Business League
• Member of the First United Methodist Church

Favorite Quote or Saying: “What you consciously do, you do better.” – Unknown Author

Business & Professional Information: Retired Senior Partner & former Managing Partner, Jackson Walker LLP

Education: B.B.A. & J.D. – The University of Texas at Austin

Community Activities & Involvement:
• The Dietert Center, Board of Directors
• Kerrville City Council’s Advisory Committee to Senior Services
• The Rotary Club of Kerrville
• First Presbyterian Church of Kerrville, Elder
• Texas Bar Foundation, Life Fellow

Favorite Quote or Saying: “Excellence never has a bad day.” – Trademark, Jackson Walker LLP