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• Police Officer/Detective for Colorado Police Force for 32 years
• Infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan
• Authored the book “Black Klansman”
• Spike Lee adapted his book for the movie “Black Klansman”, released August 2018
• Expert and speaker on gang culture

• 2017 Star of Texas Award Recipient
• Theodore Roosevelt Award for Dallas Offices Recipient
• Dallas Police Officer
• Miraculous survivor of near death experience (2015)
• 4th Degree Knight, Knights of Columbus
• Eucharistic Minister
• Bible study teacher
• Booster & volunteer

• Musician, Radio & television personality, Special Events producer and Arts Advocate
• El Paso Arts Alliance Media Arts Award
• Chamizal National Memorial Lifetime Achievement Award, 1999
• Community Arts Award, Dona Ana Arts Council, 1999
• Music Scholarship created in his name at New Mexico State University, Society’s Board of Directors, 2010
• First Annual Jazz Legends Award, City of Las Cruces, 2015
• Bob Burns Day, Proclaimed by Las Cruces City Council, 2015

• VP of Strategic Financial & Mgmt Services with El Paso Water
• 2016 Woman of Impact
• Highest ranking female in El Paso Water’s history
• CPA
• UTEP Graduate

• 1st head basketball coach at Montwood High School when it opened in 1990
• Montwood’s gym was renamed Tony Harper Gymnasium
• Named the 2013 National High School Coaches Association’s National High School Boys’ Basketball Coach of the Year
• 2012 UIL Texas High School Basketball Coach of the Year

• Head Football Coach and Athletic Director at Austin High School
• Coach of the Year for Texas Region I
• EI Paso’s 2008 Football “Coach of the Year”

• Lifelong volunteer to numerous service organizations
• El Paso Athletic Hall of Fame

• B.S.in  Mechanical Engineering
• M.S. in Biomedical Engineering
• Texas-licensed  Professional Engineer
• Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering
• Founder and CEO of LIMBS International, a non-profit international organization which develops highly functional, low-cost, prosthetic devices for underdeveloped areas of the world.

• Doctor of Medicine Degree in 1979 from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.
• Physician partner with Physician’s Healthcare Associates since 1999 and is currently on staff and on advisory board appointments for several local hospitals.

• Distinguished Political Science and Criminal Justice Professor at the UTEP.  Contributions to UTEP include:
• instrumental in establishing UTEP’s criminal justice program in 1973
• served as the program’s founding director for thirteen years
• served as the program chairman for six years
• principal author and former director of the master’s of public administration program

• 4th dean of the University of Cincinnati’s James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy. First Director of the Toxicology Training Program.
• First and only Hispanic dean at the University of Cincinnati and the only Hispanic dean of pharmacy among the research intensive colleges of pharmacy across the country.

• Administrative Director for Perioperative Services, Providence Memorial Hospital
• Served in Vietnam
• Gives her time to causes such as the Baptist Clinic in South El Paso, Medical Explorers and Medical Missions to Chihuahua with a physician’s group.

• Stunt Coordinator
• Stunt Double
• Stunt Driver
• Stuntman/Actor

• Attorney
• Founding shareholder of  Acosta, Braden & Jones

• Baseball Head Coach with 11 District Championships
• El Paso Baseball Hall of Fame
• Helped Socorro High School win the state title in baseball in 2009

• EPISD Director of Athletics; one of few female athletic directors in US

• Dentist

• Former Austin Teacher-History, P.E.; coached basketball, volleyball, softball, track

• Dedicated to giving back directly to Austin HS
• Austin PTA President
• City PTSA Board

• Austin Government Teacher
• Track and Cross-Country Coach
• Hall of Fame

• One of first women to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1981
• First woman chosen to command a Patriot missile battalion
• First woman to command an air defense brigade and lead it into combat during the 2003 invasion of Iraq
• First woman to serve as Fort Bliss chief of staff
• First female general in the Air Defense Artillery Branch

• Active in El Paso community and civic organizations
• Local business owner

• El Paso Dentist
• Served on Austin HS Alumni Association since 1991

• Philanthropist
• Donated $100,000 for the formation of a scholarship fund in memory of H. B. Fort, Austin’s first principal

• Former El Paso Mayor
• El Paso Conquistador Award

• writer, director and producer of documentaries for syndicated television
• Vice President of the Samuel Goldwyn Company

• Creator of “Archie”

• Orthodontist

• Writer, journalist, public relations and local historian

• Founder of  Lawyers Title of El Paso
• El Paso Conquistador Award

• Civil Engineer
• County Surveyor
• Executive Director, El Paso Housing Authority

• Senator

• Optometrist and African Ambassador

• Public Relations

• Dentist

• Optometrist

• Supreme Court Justice

• Dentist

• Congressman

• Austin HS Student Activities Director

• EPISD Assistant Superintendent

• Retired Senior Editor, National Geographic

•  Journalist

• El Paso Baseball Hall of Fame
• Major League Baseball Player

• Attorney

• President, Niland Co.

• Radiologist
• EPISD School Board

• Lawyer

• EPISD Band Director

• EPISD Administrator
• Founding father of Austin Alumni Association