Board Members

The Arlington ISD Education Foundation directors are movers and shakers in our community. The board includes representatives from local businesses, corporations, and the community at large. The district superintendent acts as Board Secretary to assure coordination between the Foundation and district goals.

For the 2007-2008 term, Officers for the Board of Directors are:

Greg McCarthy, President
Scott Kahl, Executive Vice President
Alvie Burdine, Treasurer
Ann Morris, Vice President Grants and Awards
Elizabeth Banda, Vice President Membership
Cathy Brown, Vice President Public Relations
Dale Sharpe-Jenkins,

Jim Maibach, Past President

Elizabeth Banda

Jim Baudino

A shareholder with Munsch Hardt Koft & Harr law firm in Dallas. Jim's practice includes all aspects of intellectual property law, with a particular emphasis on patent procurement and licensing in the Internet, computer, telecommunications, electronics, and mechanical fields. Before attending law school, Jim was employed as lead design engineer for LTV Aircraft Products Group where he was granted a secret security clearance. Jim has a unique combination of legal and engineering experience. He was named a Texas Rising Star, Texas Monthly 2005. He and his wife Victoria have two children who attend Arlington schools.

Cathy Brown

An active community volunteer. She graduated from Arlington High as did her two children. She taught English at the original Ferguson Junior High and Sam Houston High School. After retiring to raise her son and daughter, she stayed active in school affairs by serving in PTA and booster clubs at Short Elementary, Gunn Junior High and AHS. She is married to Ron Brown whose mother and grandmother were also AHS graduates. Cathy was founding president of the Arlington High School Alumni Association (ahscolts-alumni.org) in which she still takes an active part.

Alvie Burdine

President of Burdine Financial. He is a past president of the AISD Education Foundation. He has been an active participant with numerous community boards and organizations including Leadership Arlington, the Arlington Parks and Recreation Board (chair), Board of Directors for Big Brothers and Big Sisters, Board of Directors for the AWARE Foundation, Lamar High School Football Booster Club (twice president), Kiwanis Club of Arlington (twice president), AISD Citizens' Budget Review Committee, City of Arlington Storm Water Management Committee. He and his wife Gale have three sons, Lyle, Landry and Logan.

Bennett Carter

Bennett is Executive Vice President Affiliated Bank. He and his wife Leah have lived in Arlington for 15 years. Their two children Cole and Lexi attend Martin High School.

Brett Daniels

Director of Client Services and Corporate Communications for the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. He is directly involved with planning and communication issues related to the Cowboys new stadium currently under construction in Arlington. He also works closely with the Gene and Jerry Jones Family Arlington Youth Foundation. A graduate of Southern Methodist University. Brett and his wife, Carla, have two sons, Mason and Alden.

Jeanne Marcum Gerlach

Associate Vice President for K-16 Initiatives and Dean of the College of Education at the University of Texas Arlington. Her research focuses on Urban Education, Business/Higher Education Partnerships, Issues in English Education, Writing As Learning, Women in Leadership Roles, Collaborative Learning, and Governance in Higher Education, She is the coeditor of Missing Chapters: Ten Pioneering Women In NCTE and English Education and co-author of the book, Questions of English: Ethics, aesthetics, rhetoric, and the formation of the subject in England, Australia and the United States. Dr. Gerlach has taught in England, New Zealand, France, Germany, Thailand, and Australia. Her awards include the National Council Teachers of English Outstanding Woman In English Education and the University of North Texas’ and West Virginia University’s Outstanding Alumni Award. She received the Fort Worth Business Press Great Women of Texas Most Influential Woman Award, 2002.

Michael Glaspie

Minister of Christian Education and Missions at Mount Olive Baptist Church and also serves at the Executive Director of Metro Charter Academy. He has served as a member of the Arlington ISD Board of Trustees since 1991. He has a BA in Mathematics and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin. He has done work on a Masters of Biblical Studies at Dallas Baptist University. Mr. Glaspie retired from IBM after a twenty-one year career in marketing and marketing management of information technology systems and solutions. He and his wife, Janice, have three children, a daughter and two sons, who are benefiting from the excellent education they received from the AISD.

Scott Kahl

Director of Human Resources for National Semiconductor in Arlington, Texas. National is a semiconductor manufacturing plant with approximately 800 employees. The Texas HR staff is made up of specialists in employee relations, staffing, benefits, and training. Scott holds a Master of Science Degree in Industrial Psychology from San Francisco State University and a Bachelor of Science from St. Mary’s College of California. His experiences have crossed industries to include Fortune 500 Companies in High-Tech, Finance and Manufacturing organizations. Scott has been with National since 1995. He has been the chairman of the Arlington Chamber of Commerce’s Quality Workforce Development Committee for the previous 2 years. He is currently a Board member with the Arlington Chamber and the Tarrant County Workforce Board. He has also participated as a member of the Arlington Independent School District curriculum committee, and he is the chairman of the Tarrant County College Advisory committee for its microelectronics manufacturing program at the southeast campus. Scott coaches soccer for a group of ten-year old girls, a group he has coached for the past five years.

John Lozier

A community volunteer. A retired executive with TXU Energy Services in Dallas, TX, John has lived in Arlington since 1980 and both of his children graduated from Arlington High School. In addition to his volunteer activities as VP Membership for the AISD Education Foundation, he serves on the Board of Directors for the DFW Michigan State University Alumni Association and is an active member of Trinity United Methodist Church in Arlington.

Jim Maibach

President and Founder of Peyco Southwest Realty. He is an active real estate broker, appraiser, property manager and property tax consultant and a very active member of several Arlington and Mansfield boards and committees. Mr. Maibach is currently a member of the Parks & Recreation Board for the City of Arlington, Southwest Securities Bank Board of Directors and the Arlington Chamber of Commerce. In addition, Jim has been a regional FBLA judge and serves on the Margarita Society which hosts an annual ball to collect toys for Arlington Children's Toys.

Greg McCarthy

Attorney and shareholder with Miller & McCarthy, P.C. A resident of Arlington since 1987, he is an active volunteer in school district and community organizations, working with booster clubs for Butler Elementary, Shackelford Junior High, and Lamar High School as well as coaching YMCA basketball and soccer. He was a member of Young Men for Arlington for ten years and is a member of the Arlington Chamber of Commerce and New World United Methodist Church. Mr. McCarthy received a BBA Accounting from Texas A&M University and the J.D. from Texas Tech University School of Law. He and his wife Sherri have two daughters, Ashley, a junior at TCU, and Kelley, a senior at Lamar High School.

Ann Morris

District 94 Director for State Representative Diane Patrick. She is a founding member of the AISD Education Foundation, Past President of the AISD Council of PTAs and a past member of the AISD Board of Trustees.

Barbara Nash

Ms. Nash is a self-employed real estate investor. She serves on the board of directors for the Cancer Research Foundation of North Texas and the Texas Federation of Republican Women. Ms. Nash serves on Congressman's Joe Barton's Advisory Committe on Education and Family. She is a former AISD Trustee and Arlington City Council member. She is also the recipient of the Gilbert Garcia Amigo Award from the United Hispanic Council of Tarrant County, the Texas life Member of the PTA awards, and the Paul Harris Fellow Award from the Arlington Rotary. She was appointed Director for Trinity River Authority's Tarrant County area in 2008.

Diane Patrick

State Representative for District 94 (Arlington). She is a former faculty member in the Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Department of the College of Education at The University of Texas at Arlington. Since moving to the Arlington community in 1973, she has been active in the PTA, Junior League, Arlington Baylor Club, and other civic organizations, Diane served on the Arlington ISD Board of Trustees from 1981-1992, including the last four years as board president. She was also elected to the Texas State Board of Education from 1992-1996. She and her husband Ned are the parents of two grown children who are Arlington School District graduates, and they have one grandson with another on the way.

Dale Petroskey

Executive VP Marketing and Community Development, Texas RangersPetroskey was president of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum and formerly an executive with the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C. From 1985-1987, he was Assistant Press Secretary to President Ronald Reagan. He and his wife Ann have two children, Frank, a baseball player at the University of Vermont and Claire, a freshman at the College of Charleston in SC.

Dale Sharpe-Jenkins

Founder and Chief Financial Officer for The Jenkins Agency, Inc., an independent property/casualty insurance and employee benefits firm. Ms. Jenkins has been an insurance professional for mare than 25 years and holds memberships, many professional organizations, including National Insurance Alliance and Independent Insurance Agents of Texas, State of Texas. Her community work involves Jack and Jill of American and the Arlington Pregnancy Center. A resident of Arlington for the past 25 years, she is married to Jeff Jenkins and has two daughters, Lindsay and Kristen, both graduates of Lamar High School.