Board of Directors

The Texas Water Association Board of Directors is made up of seven members from each panel, all who serve staggered three-year terms. At the Annual Convention each March, the panels elect 2-3 members (depending on how many of the staggered terms have expired) to serve on the board while also appointing one board member to serve as a vice president/panel chair, and another to serve on the association’s Executive Committee.

In addition to the 63 board members elected by the panels and the President's Panel (7 members), the board also consists of the Texas Water Association's president, president-elect, and all past presidents who remain members of the association. The Texas Water Association currently has 31 living past presidents, making a total of 100 board members. Each year at its December meeting, the board elects an individual to serve as president-elect the following year. That individual will assume the duties of the president approximately 18 months later.

PRESIDENT-ELECT

Troy Allen, Delta Lake Irrigation District

President Panel Appointees - 2027
Lance McLeod, Halff
Cory Shockley, HDR

PRESIDENT

Wayne Owen, Northeast Texas MWD

President Panel Appointees - 2026
Rachel Ickert, Tarrant RWD
Spandana Tummuri, JACOBS

IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT

Lyn Clancy, Lower Colorado River Authority

President Panel Appointees - 2025
Amy Stelter, Trinity RA
Connie Curtis, San Jacinto RA

DRAINAGE DISTRICTS
Chair: Allen Sims, Jefferson County DD #7 – 2025
(VC): Craig Kalkomey, LJA Engineering – 2027
Don Carona, Carona Law PLLC – 2027
Kim Carroll, Texan Engineering & Consulting, LLC – 2025
Joe Williams, Velasco Drainage District – 2026
Stan Kitzman, Brookshire-Katy DD – 2027
Tina Petersen, Harris County Flood District – 2026

GENERAL & ENVIRONMENTAL

Chair: Carolyn Ahrens, Booth/Ahrens – 2027

(VC): Ed Shackelford, San Jacinto River Authority – 2027

Mike Gershon, Lloyd Gosselink Rochelle & Townsend, P.C. – 2025

Tom Ray, Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam, Inc. – 2025

Howard Slobodin, Terrill & Waldrop PLLC – 2026

Tony Smith, Carollo Engineers – 2026

Travis Williams, Sabine River Authority – 2025

GROUNDWATER

Chair: Drew Satterwhite, Canadian River MWA – 2025

(VC): Mike Turco, Harris-Galveston Subsidence District – 2027

Dirk Aaron, Clearwater UWCD – 2026

James Beach, Advanced Groundwater Solutions – 2026

Velma Danielson, ICF – 2025

Brian Sledge, SledgeLaw Group, PLLC – 2027

Gary Westbrook, Post Oak Savannah GCD – 2025

INDUSTRIAL

Chair: Ty Embrey, Lloyd Gosselink Rochelle & Townsend, P.C. – 2025

(VC): Liz Fazio Hale, Gulf Coast Authority – 2026

Mark Evans, North Harris County Regional Water Authority – 2026

Scott Harris, Gulf Coast Authority – 2027

Randy Palachek, Civitas – 2027

Heath Thompson, Lower Neches Valley Authority – 2025

Paulina Williams, Baker Botts, LLP – 2026

IRRIGATION

Chair: Tom McLemore, Harlingen ID Cameron County #1 – 2026

(VC): Kyle Miller, Wichita County Water Improvement District #2 – 2025

Glenn Jarvis, Law Offices of Glenn Jarvis – 2027

Juan Martinez, United Irrigation District – 2025

Sonny Hinojosa, Hidalgo County Irrigation District #2 – 2026

Michael Kent, Donna Irrigation District – 2027

Ryan Ard, Lower Neches Valley Authority – 2025

MUNICIPAL

Chair: Denis Qualls, City of Dallas – 2027

(VC): Heather Cooke, Austin Water – 2025

Fred Arce, HDR Engineering – 2026

Karen Bondy – 2027

Jun Chang, North Harris County Regional Water Authority – 2025

Ekaterina Fitos, City of Houston – 2027

Larry Patterson, Upper Trinity RWD – 2026

NAVIGATION & FLOOD CONTROL

Chair: Emily Rogers, Bickerstaff Heath Delgado Acosta – 2025

(VC): Dan Buhman, Tarrant Regional Water District – 2026

Derek Boese, San Antonio River Authority – 2026

Patrick Brzozowski, Lavaca-Navidad River Authority – 2027

Matt Phillips, Brazos River Authority – 2027

Mike Reedy, Freese & Nichols, Inc. – 2025
Dawn Pilcher, Tidewater Professional Services, LLC – 2025

RIVER AUTHORITIES

Chair: Kevin Ward, Trinity River Authority – 2025

(VC): Scott Hall, Lower Neches Valley Authority – 2025

David Collinsworth, Brazos River Authority – 2026

Jenna Covington, North Texas Municipal Water District – 2025

John Hofmann, Lower Colorado River Authority – 2026

Darrell Nichols, Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority – 2027

Cole Walker, Colorado River Municipal Water District – 2027

UTILITY DISTRICTS

Chair: Darrell Grubbs, Titus Co. Fresh Water Supply District #1 – 2025

(VC): Alia Vinson, Allen Boone Humphries Robinson – 2026

John Chisholm, Corix Utilities Texas – 2027

Kelley Holcomb, Angelina & Neches River Authority – 2025

Robert Lux, The Woodlands Water Agency – 2027

Shirley Ross, Wells Branch MUD – 2025

David Weidman, Sulphur River Basin Authority – 2026

TEXAS WATER ASSOCIATION RISK MANAGEMENT FUND REPRESENTATIVES

Kathy Turner Jones, Prairielands GCD – 2026

Jonathan Stinson, Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority – 2026