Austin ISD Board of Trustees
(from left) Lori Moya, District 6: Sam Guzmán, District 2; Johna Edwards, District 3; Mark Williams, PRESIDENT, District 5; Karen Dulaney Smith, At Large 9; Vincent M. Torres, VICE PRESIDENT, District 4; Cheryl Bradley, District 1; Robert Schneider, District 7; Annette LoVoi, At Large 8.

Mark Williams, District 5, President
Term Expires: May 2008
2801 Scenic Drive
Austin, TX 78703
OFFICE: 414-2590

In May 2004, Mark Williams was elected to the Austin ISD Board of Trustees, and in May 2006 was elected by his fellow trustees as Board President. Mr. Williams is married to Linda McCalla Williams and they have three children in AISD. He and his wife have been active volunteers in their children's schools, including serving in various capacities in both the PTA and CAC organizations at their children's elementary and middle schools. In addition, Mark is a member of the board of directors and has served in various officer and/or committee positions for the Center for Child Protection and the Ex-Students Association of the University of Texas (Texas Exes). Mark also currently is on the advisory board and finance committee for Any Baby Can. He is a former board member of West Austin Youth Association, Prevent Child Abuse Texas and Westwood Country Club. Mark is the AISD representative and on the Board of Envision Central Texas (ECT), as well as a member of the ECT Social Equity committee. Mark also serves as an AISD representative and as the past Chair of the Community Action Network's Resource Council. Mark was a member of the 2003-04 Leadership Austin class. Mr. Williams is a 1981 graduate of The University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor's degree in Accounting. He worked for Arthur Andersen from 1981-93, in the areas of audit and regulatory and operational consulting, and for Dell Inc. from 1993-2000.

Vincent M. Torres, District 4, Vice President
Term Expires: May 2010
1111 W. 6th Street A250
Austin, TX 78703
OFFICE: 414-2550

Vincent Torres was elected to the Austin ISD Board of Trustees in May 2006. He graduated from The University of Texas at Austin in 1979 with a master of science degree in engineering. A registered professional engineer, Mr. Torres has been employed by The University of Texas at Austin since 1986, where he is the Associate Director of the Center for Energy & Environmental Resources. His research interests include indoor air quality, as well as heating, ventilating and air-conditioning systems.

He is married to Suzanne Torres, and they have two children who attend AISD schools. Mr. Torres and his wife have been active volunteers in their children's schools and on district-wide committees. Mr. Torres was one of the tri-chairs of the Citizens' Bond Advisory Committee and a co-chair of the Community Bond Oversight Committee for the 2002 Health & Safety Bond. He was one of the tri-chairs of the $519 million 2004 Citizens' Bond Advisory Committee and the Community Bond Oversight Committee. In 2005, Austin Partners in Education named him District Volunteer of the Year and in 2001 was named Volunteer of the Year by Hill Elementary School.

In addition to his volunteer work with AISD, Mr. Torres has been active in the Austin community serving on the Travis County Grand Jury and on advisory committees for the Gardner-Betts Juvenile Justice Center and the Travis County Community Justice Council. He is a member of the board of the Children's Environmental Health Institute. Mr. Torres has been instrumental in securing state legislation to obtain greater assistance benefits and improved counseling programs for victims of violent crime and established the Crime Victims' Institute at the Office of the Attorney General in 1995. He also served on the faculty of the first three offerings of the Texas Victim Assistance Academy. Mr. Torres worked with the Texas Rangers to obtain legislation that established in 2001 the statewide Unsolved Crimes Investigation Team of the Texas Rangers, which provides unique expertise to law enforcement agencies in the solution of unsolved homicides (cold cases). In 2003, the Texas Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers named Mr. Torres their Public Citizen of the Year.

Johna H. Edwards, District 3, Secretary
Term Expires: May 2008
12317 Antoinette Place
Austin, TX 78727
OFFICE: 414-2570

Johna Edwards was elected to the Board in 2000 and re-elected in 2004. She was President of the Austin Council of PTA in 1998-99 and is a PTA Life Member. Her community service activities include Helping One Student to Succeed (HOST) mentorships at Sims, Barrington, and Walnut Creek elementary schools. An early childhood teacher for 17 years, Mrs. Edwards and her husband, Mark, are lifelong Austin residents and graduates of Austin's Reagan High School. They have two sons who are also AISD graduates. Mrs. Edwards attended Southwest Texas State University.

Cheryl Bradley, District 1
Term Expires: May 2010
1198 Angelina
Austin, TX 78702
OFFICE: 472-9554

Cheryl Bradley was first elected to the AISD Board of Trustees in 2002 and re-elected in 2006. She attended AISD schools and Huston-Tillotson College, and has two children who recently graduated from AISD. Before joining the Board of Trustees, Mrs. Bradley was active with the Pearce Middle School PTA and the 1996 Pearce Bond Task Force. She served as vice president of the Austin Council of PTAs and chaired PTA committees at Winn Elementary School, Pearce Middle School, Kealing Junior High School, and LBJ High School. In 1999, she was appointed to the Texas Attorney General's School Violence Prevention Task Force. Mrs. Bradley is vigilant in her support of the district's efforts to close the achievement gaps between student groups and increasing the performance of all students. She is also a strong advocate higher education and extra-curricular opportunities for students.

Sam Guzman, District 2
Term Expires: May 2008
1111 W 6th Street, A-250
Austin, TX 78703
OFFICE: 414-2530

Mr. Guzman was first elected to the board in 2007 to complete the term of a retiring Board member. He was re-elected to a four-year term in 2008. Mr. Guzman has resided in Trustee District 2 for approximately 30 years, and has been actively involved in education issues at the community level for many years. He has served on the district's Citizen's Budget Committee and his children attended AISD schools, as do his grandchildren now. Mr. Guzman's professional background is in the area of community affairs, housing and human services. He is a former Chairman of the Great Austin Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, and has served as President of the Texas Association of Mexican-American Chambers of Commerce. He has also served numerous other community and civic organizations, such as the Travis County Appraisal District Board, City of Austin Human Relations Commission. He is most proud of having been the founder of the Youth Advocacy Program.

Lori Moya, District 6
Term Expires: May 2010
1111 W 6th Street, A-250
Austin, TX 78703
OFFICE: 414-2610

Ms. Moya was elected to the board in 2006. She is a lifelong resident of Austin and attended the University of Texas at Austin and is a graduate of Travis High School in 1975. Ms. Moya's two children attended and graduated from AISD schools and her grandson will soon be starting his career in public school. Her community service with AISD include PTSA President at Bowie High School, Baseball Booster club President, Secretary of the Football Booster club, member of the CAC, ACPTA representative, member of the DAC, member of the AISD Budget Council, and recently member of the Community Bond Oversight Committee for the 2004 Bond Program. Ms. Moya is employed by the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts with 21 years of service.

Robert Schneider, District 7
Term Expires: May 2010
8031 Doe Meadow Drive
Austin, TX 78749
CELL: 619-3973

Robert Schneider was first elected to the Austin ISD Board of Trustees in May, 2002 and re-elected in 2006. He has recently retired from fulltime work on massively parallel computing systems at The University of Texas at Austin after 30 years of research and departmental work. Mr. Schneider has a long history of community involvement serving on numerous neighborhood, environmental, and school committees and task forces. His primary interests include site-based decision making, promoting academic achievement, and studying models of board governance. Mr. Schneider serves as chair of the Board's Audit Committee. Mr. Schneider has been married to his wife, Kathleen, since 1986, and has four children who attend AISD schools.

Annette LoVoi, At-Large Position 8
Term Expires: May 2008
1111 W. 6th Street A250
Austin, TX 78703
OFFICE: 414-2560

An Austin resident for 28 years, Annette LoVoi has more than 30 years of public service, working at the federal, state, and local levels.

Ms. LoVoi was appointed by former Texas Governor Ann Richards as the first Ombudsman, or Citizen Advocate, in the history of Texas, charged with ensuring public input into the State's decision-making. Later, she helped found Texas Appleseed, a non-profit legal center that has generated thousands of hours of volunteer legal service in Austin and throughout the state.

A long-time active school volunteer, Ms. LoVoi's service includes two terms as president of Pease Elementary School PTA, and a member of the Pease Campus Advisory Council. She also helped lead two AISD citizen bond committees, in 2002 and 2004, and helped to secure $569 million for our schools. She is particularly proud to be co-chair of the 2002 Health & Safety Bond Citizens Committee. She served on two Travis County citizen committees to review and make recommendations for improving elections equipment and procedures.

Ms. LoVoi has an undergraduate degree from Oklahoma State University, where she majored in English and graduated with a teaching certificate. Later, she earned a Master's Degree from the LBJ School of Public Affairs.

She has been married to Jim Marston for 25 years, and they have one daughter, Amanda, who has attended three AISD schools, and was a four-year varsity volleyball player at Austin High School. Amanda is a 2006 graduate, headed to Dartmouth College. Annette and Jim believe that her AISD education has prepared her perfectly for the challenges of college.

Karen Dulaney Smith, At-Large Position 9
Term Expires: May 2010
1111 W. 6th Street A250
Austin, TX 78703
OFFICE: 414-9609

Karen Dulaney Smith is the mother of two elementary aged children who attend AISD. She is married to Scott C. Smith, a local attorney. She is the former president of Barton Hills Elementary PTA and a former board member of the preschool her children attended. She is a member of St. Mark's Episcopal Church and her husband is a member of Temple Beth Shalom and both have volunteered in various professional and civic endeavors. Ms. Dulaney Smith graduated from Southwestern University at Georgetown in 1986 and attended Texas State University to study Developmental and Adult Education, a program that focuses on non-traditional and disadvantaged learner populations and the politics of education. After more than 12 years of service for the United States Department of Labor, Ms. Dulaney Smith began her own practice, primarily as a consultant to attorneys and others who seek assistance with Wage and Hour issues. She brings to the board an expertise on labor-related matters such as compensation for employees and prevailing wage requirements in contracting. She is particularly interested in equitable programming and access throughout AISD, parent and community engagement and partnership to improve student success, and the relationship of AISD to other governmental entities in such areas as urban planning and sharing of resources.