Foundation

Foundation Board

Foundation Board Officers:

Curtis Finley, Chair

Business & Professional Information: Owner, Finley Financial Services

Education: BBA Finance – Hardin Simmons University Abilene, Texas

Community Activities & Involvement:

  • Hardin Simmons University Board of Young Associates (past president)
  • Hardin Simmons University Board of Development
  • Leadership Kerr County Class of 1994
  • Chamber of Commerce Member
  • Kerr County Day Care (past president)
  • Kerr County YMCA Board
  • First Baptist Church Kerrville Finance and Personnel Committee (past Chairman)
  • Tivy Athletic Hall of Fame Committee
  • Tivy Athletic Booster Club (past president)
  • Kiwanis Club of Kerrville (past president)
  • Kiwanis Legion of Honor Member
  • Kerrville Boy Scouts of America Committee Chair
  • Hill Country College Fund Volunteer
  • Kerrville ISD Board of Trustees (past president)
  • Peterson Health Foundation Board (President)
  • Antler Stadium Renovation Bond Support Committee (Lead)

Favorite Quote or Saying: “Service is a privilege and do a job right the first time.”


 

Mindy Wendele, Chair-Elect/Vice Chair

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


 

Tammy Prout, Vice Chair

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

 


 


Rachel Johnston

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.”


 


John Miller

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


 


Paige Mixon

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


 


Dr. William E. Morris, Jr.

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


 


Risa Parker


 


Melissa Hoelscher Koza


Bruce Rice


 


Kari Short

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

 


 


Bruce Stracke

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


 

Mary Ellen Summerlin

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



Roy Thompson

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


Amanda Williams



Mike Wilson

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

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