2022-2023 TAS Board of Directors

Immediate Past President
Matthew Barnes
Texas Tech University

 President
Robert Kane
Baylor University


President Elect
Maria Burns
University of Houston

 Vice President
Craig Younce
Hardin-Simmons University

Treasurer
Kathleen Wood
Univ. of Mary Hardin-Baylor
(retired)

Collegiate Academy Counselor
Milka Montes
University of Texas Permian Basin


Collegiate Academy Co-Counselor
Karen Grant

Univ. of Mary Hardin-Baylor


Chair, Board of Development
Gerald Mulvey
Nighthawk Weather LLC


 2025-2026 Student Representative
Jennifer Hunt
University of Texas Permian Basin

 2024-2025 Student Representative
Kristen Collier
Angelo State University

 Executive Secretary
Christopher Ritzi
Sul Ross State University

Corresponding Secretary
Louise Liu
Texas A&M Kingsville


2023 Local Host
Christie Sayes
Baylor Universitt


Coordinator of Information Technology
Christopher Vitek
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley


Graduate Academy Counselor
Travis LaDuc

University of Texas at Austin


Managing Editor of TJS
Jason L. Locklin
Temple College

AAAS Representative
Andre Felton
University of Texas San Antonio


 2024-2027 Academic Director
Lance English
Temple College

 2023-2026 Academic Director
Shawana Tabassum
University of Texas at Tyler

2022-2025 Academic Director
Yolander Youngblood

Prairie View A&M University


Manuscript Editor of TJS
David E. Lemke 
Texas State University

Junior Academy Counselor
Vince Schielack
Texas A&M University


Junior Academy Associate Counselor
Nancy Magnussen
Texas A&M University


 2024-2027 Non-Academic Director
Woody Cox
BHSD

2023-2026 Non-Academic Director
Megan Bean

Texas Parks and Wildlife


2022-2025 Non-Academic Director
OPEN


Historian, TX Academy of Science
Raymond C. Mathews, Jr.
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center

International Program Coordinator
Hugo A. Barrera-Saldaña
Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon
Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, México