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Fourth Court of Appeals
Mar. 05, 2018
Marialyn Barnard was appointed Justice of the Texas Fourth Court of Appeals on January 1, 2009. She was elected as Justice in 2010 and re-elected to a six-year term in 2012. She has been a judge for nine years and has authored over a thousand civil and criminal opinions. Prior to her judicial years, she was an experienced attorney with a broad base of legal experience in state and federal courts. At the time of her appointment, she was in private practice with the Prichard Hawkins McFarland & Young LLP law firm representing clients in civil litigation, multi-district litigation, and appeals. Justice Barnard’s early legal career included working for several judges. During law school, she was an intern at the Texas Supreme Court for Former Justice John Cornyn and at the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals for Judge Charlie Baird. In 1995, Justice Barnard was appointed by United States Attorney General Janet Reno to serve as Assistant United States Attorney in the Western District of Texas, United States Department of Justice. She handled various cases including complex civil litigation cases. Several cases were parallel proceedings involving civil and criminal issues. From 1999 to 2005 Justice Barnard was a corporate counsel and director of business intelligence for CPS Energy in San Antonio, Texas and a managing director of Forensic Litigation Services for KPMG. At KPMG she worked on mergers and acquisitions, compliance, and employee issues for U.S. and international corporations, companies, and partnerships. Legal Volunteer/Awards SABA Litigation Section Director 2005, Chair 2008-09 SABA Law Day Committee Chairperson 1997 and 2006 SABA President’s Award 1997 for volunteer work Texas State Bar Grievance Committee Member 1996-98, 2001-05 Bexar County Women’s Bar Association Director 1996-97; 2006-07 Association of Corporate Counsels 2003-05 Board Member and President-Elect SABA Community Justice Program Fundraiser and Volunteer for Indigent Clients Wills Clinic Committee Member and Volunteer for Indigent Clients 2000-08 Western District of Texas Admission Committee Member and Chair 1995-98 Texas Supreme Court Gender Bias Review and Implementation Committee Member 1994-96 San Antonio Young Lawyer Association Honorary Young Lawyer 2016 Community Involvement/Charities/Volunteer/Awards San Antonio Metropolitan Ministries (SAMM) – Working night shifts at the center 1980-1990’s Habitant for Humanity – Helping to build homes – 1990’s CPS Energy Weatherization – Weatherizing low income homes 2002 - 2005 Children’s Shelter – Spending time and playing with children 1980s - 1990 Big Brothers Big Sisters Board Member 2005 Child Advocates of San Antonio (CASA) Board Member 2007-08 Advisory Board Member, Advisory Board Member, N.E.I.S.D. Academy for Creative Education 2006-08 La Prensa Foundation 2010 “Outstanding Women in Action” Legal Award Recipient San Antonio Lighthouse for the Blind Advisory Board 2011-12 San Antonio Downtown Rotary Club President 2015-2016 Board Member 2009-2017 United States Air Force War College National Security Forum Class of 2010 United States Army War College National Security Symposium Class 2016 Honorary Commander 433rd Alamo Wing, Lackland A.F.B. 2011-2012 Girl’s Inc. “Raise Your Glasses Honoree” 2015 Justice Barnard, as a former public school teacher, has also served as Director on the Firstmark Credit Union Board, originally the San Antonio Teacher’s Credit Union. She has served as board member on the San Antonio Greater Chamber Board and on the San Antonio Women’s Chamber of Commerce Board. Justice Barnard has also served on the supervisory committee for the Academy of Creative Education (ACE) for the Northeast Independent School District in San Antonio working with high risk students to prevent them from becoming high school dropouts. Justice Barnard is married to Gary Barnard, PhD. psychologist in private practice. They have two adult children and two very precious grandchildren. Justice Barnard is a very involved and proud grandmother. The Barnard’s daughter, mother of their grandchildren, is Major Brandi Barnard King a U.S. Air Force Reserve C-5 pilot at Lackland A.F.B. married to Lt. Col. Dan King also a pilot. The Barnard’s son, Joshua Barnard is an account executive in healthcare software and financing and, he is married to Dr. Kaessee Brown Barnard, OB-GYN. Former United States Air Force Major. |
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Red Tream Training
Mar. 12, 2018
Colonel (USA Retired) Jeanne Arnold is a Principal and one of the founding members of Arnold & Schroeder, LLC., a strategic planning consulting and Red Team Training company. She is also a senior consultant with Red Team Thinking, LLC. She holds a Master of Education from Texas State University and a Master of Business Administration from The University of Texas McCombs School of Business (EMBA ’14). Jeanne brings a variety of tools and techniques to help key executives unlock their innovative genius and help their organizations create and develop innovative solutions. She is a recognized trailblazer in senior level strategic and operational decision support techniques and critical thinking. She excels in the ability to think strategically and translate that strategy into results. Jeanne is known for her out-of-the-box thinking and problem solving abilities. She is able to effectively challenge assumptions and view problems from multiple perspectives resulting in solutions that are profound, enduring, and game changing. Jeanne is a highly effective leader with the passion and ability to coach and build highly functioning teams capable of understanding their complex environments and its associated problems within businesses and organizations. Jeanne is a retired military veteran with over 30 years experience flying helicopters, and leading people, teams, and organizations to achieve mission success, including numerous deployments worldwide during both peacetime and in combat. While in the Army, Jeanne deployed to Afghanistan five times, three of which were in operational and strategic level Red Team leader capacities. Her assignments also included Instructor for both the Command and General Staff College and Senior Seminar Instructor and Facilitator for the University of Foreign Military and Cultural Studies. She has taught Red Teaming to several organizations worldwide including US military, Joint Commands in the US and abroad, Canadian military, Australian Defense Intelligence, US AID, and US Customs and Border Protection, to name a few. Her military awards and recognitions include Senior Aviator Badge, Legion of Merit, and two Bronze Star medals. She has also been recognized by the Army Aviation community for her contributions and was inducted into the Order of Saint Michael. She also holds the honorary rank of Admiral of the Texas Navy. She was named National Association of Professional Women VIP Woman of the year for 2015-2016. Jeanne serves on the Board of Directors for The Burke Center for Youth, The National Guard Association of Texas and is an active Rotarian in the Downtown Corpus Christi Club. She currently lives in Corpus Christi, Texas near her grandchildren, children, and extended family. |
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Ransomed Life
Mar. 19, 2018
Susan Burkholder worked for 30 years in the health care industry in sales, marketing, consulting, coaching, and executive management roles. In 2013, Susan felt called to get involved in the issue of human trafficking. She served as an Ambassador for Shared Hope International, and became an active member of the Alamo Area Coalition Against Trafficking. Since 2015, she has served as a volunteer with Ransomed Life, a San Antonio based 501c3 organization providing mentoring, counseling, education, community awareness and restoration to San Antonio area 12-17 year old female survivors of Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking. Susan is currently serving Ransomed Life, in a volunteer role, as their Director of Community Engagement. |
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Foster Village
Mar. 26, 2018
Chrystal Smith is a foster and adoptive parent residing in Dripping Springs with her husband, Nick Smith, and their 4 children. Chrystal is the founder and Executive Director of Foster Village, a non-profit organization that provides critical support to foster, kinship, and reunifying families in central Texas. Using her experience as a foster parent, a degree in Child Development, and professional experience as a Parent Educator, Chrystal has rallied the community to bridge some of the troubling gaps that plague our current foster system. Foster Village recently launched an innovative multi-use resource center on Fitzhugh Rd. after meeting the needs of over 700 children in crisis. |
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Baseball Card Collection
Apr. 02, 2018
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Club Assembly
Apr. 09, 2018
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What to do when you receive a letter from the IRS and it is tax day!
Apr. 16, 2018
Lynn Parent, EA, Principal Parent Tax Consulting leparent@att.net www.parenttaxconsulting.com 512-431-3149
Whether you do your own taxes or have somebody do them for you, all you want is for the IRS to take your money or give you a refund and then leave you alone. But should the IRS come after you, the best thing you can do is have someone like Lynn Parent by your side.
Lynn is an Enrolled Agent, a federally licensed tax practitioner authorized by the U.S. Department of the Treasury with unlimited rights to represent taxpayers before the IRS for audits, collections and appeals.
Like other EAs, Lynn advises and represents individuals, partnerships, corporations, estates, trusts and any entities with tax-reporting requirements, but unlike many other EAs, she does not prepare tax returns.
Instead, Lynn helps people settle their tax problems with offers in compromise or installment agreements, or by dealing with collection personnel, correcting errors in accounts, requesting abatements of penalties and stopping collection actions.
Before opening her Austin-based practice, Parent Tax Consulting, in 2011, Lynn spent nearly 30 years on the other side of the desk in collections with the Internal Revenue Service, rising through the ranks to achieve its highest level of Grade 13 Revenue Officer.
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DS Rotary Club Foundation
Apr. 30, 2018
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DSISD Fab Lab
May 07, 2018
Dripping Springs High School being named a Fab Lab by MIT was a big accomplishment. Fab labs provide widespread access to modern means for invention. They began as an outreach project from MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms and became into a collaborative and global network. Now they “engage in design, manufacture, redesign and refinement as a regular practice. Our current course offerings are U Teach Engineering Technology 1 & 2 from UT Austin, Applied Physics, Robotics Engineering, CAD, Computer Programming I, Programming II and AP Computer Science,” according to their website. Teacher Jad Jadeja, CTE - Programming & Robotics Teacher is the one that is in charge of the FAB LAB. Although every one his classes listed on the website is a class with one period each, but it is not. He has students from different classes arriving at different periods and working on different projects at anytime during the school day. One might think that it would be total mayhem in his classes, but it is just the opposite. The calm students are focused and working on their assigned projects. No matter whether freshman or senior, they are in the class to be creative, design and produce for example, mini-F1 cars, robots or solar cars for state competitive racing. |
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May 21, 2018
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TIRZ - Tax Increment Reinvestment Zones - Town Center Project
May 21, 2018
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Essential Next Steps
Jun. 04, 2018
Essential Next Steps. Jon & Leah Harlig. They help with organizing life’s transitions. Jon is a Certified Relocation and Transition Specialist. Leah is a Certified Senior Advisor. Their phone number is 512 215 0383. Email jon@essentialnextsteps.com, and leah@essentialnextsteps.com. |
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Long term care Insurance, medicare, and medicare supplement plans
Jun. 11, 2018
John Leslie with Physicians Mutual Insurance. Going to speak on Long term care Insurance, medicare, and medicare supplement plans. John Leslie’s phone number is 512-952-9825. Email johnrleslie@outlook.com |
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Hospice Austin
Jun. 18, 2018
Michelle Bailey from Hospice Austin is speaking about all the free programs that they offer the Community. (737)346-9940. Her e-mail is mbailey@hospiceaustin.org. |
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Jun. 25, 2018
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School's Out Food's In!
Jul. 09, 2018
Do you LOVE SOFI? Of course you do! Because last summer, we fed over 200 kids within 80+ DS families. We collect thousands of food bags in less than 4 short weeks. We promote community in nearly every n'hood in Dripping Springs, among more than 100 volunteers, and a host of local businesses and civic groups. Not to mention awarding over 200 volunteer hours to local students. The one the only Mandi McNutt will be joining us on Monday July 9th with an update on SOFI in the Drip! Please share and let everyone know how our community totally abounds in love and generosity. |
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Tiger Readers Foundation
Jul. 23, 2018
Join us on July 23rd with speaker Nichol, founder of the Tiger Readers Foundation. What is Tiger Readers? Tiger Readers Foundation is an early intervention reading program that supports students in Pre-K – 2 nd Grade. We work alongside teachers to provide students who need extra support with letter recognition, reading and writing skills. Research shows that most of a child’s brain development occurs within the first few years of life. A child’s brain grows to more than 90% of an adult size by the age of three. In Texas 26% of children ages 1-5 are read to less than 3 days per week and recognize the letters of the alphabet. Children who are read to at home are more likely to be able to count to 20 or higher than their peers. They are also more likely to be able to write their name and begin to read. Tiger Readers was founded to help teachers and parents close the gaps in early reading readiness.
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Rotary Social
Jul. 30, 2018
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Geology of the Texas Hill Country
Aug. 06, 2018
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