FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:
Katherine Garner
214.977.6658
Freedom
of Information Foundation of Texas Elects 2007 Officers, Directors
The
Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas, a First Amendment
organization that educates, protects and advances the rights
and responsibilities of the public to access government information
and meetings, elected its 2007 officers and added five new
board members in December.
The
following officers were elected: Timothy M. Kelly, editor
of The Beaumont Enterprise, president; Laura Lee
Prather, a partner in the law firm of Sedgwick, Detert, Moran
& Arnold, L.L.P., vice president; and Dale Leach, chief
of bureau for The Associated Press, treasurer. Keith Shelton,
retired journalist in residence for the University of North
Texas, was re-elected secretary.
New
directors elected to the board included: Donnis Baggett,
editor and publisher of The Eagle in Bryan-College
Station; Russ Coleman, vice president, general counsel and
assistant secretary for Belo Corporation; Brian Collister,
investigative reporter for WOAI TV in San Antonio; Bill Cornwell,
publisher of The Facts in Clute; and Jennifer LaFleur,
computer-assisted reporting editor for The Dallas Morning
News.
The
following directors were re-elected to the board: Libby
Averyt, editor of the Corpus Christi Caller-Times;
David H. Donaldson, attorney with Graves, Dougherty, Hearon
& Moody, P.C.; Joe Larsen, attorney with Ogden, Gibson,
Broocks & Longoria, L.L.P.; Tony Pederson, Belo distinguished
chair of journalism at Southern Methodist University; James
Sibley, president of Title Data, Inc.; Nick Voinis, senior
associate athletics director for communications at the University
of Texas at Austin; Paul Watler, attorney with Jenkins &
Gilchrist, P.C.; Joel White, with the law firm of Joel White
& Associates; and Thomas Williams, attorney with Haynes
and Boone, L.L.P.
The
FOIFT is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization supported through
grants from private citizens, corporations, foundations and
tax-deductible donations. For more information, call
214.977.6658, visit our Web site at www.foift.org or write
to FOIFT, 400 S. Record St., Suite 240, Dallas, Texas
75202.
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