Mayor Karl Mooney

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Karl Mooney was elected Mayor of the City of College Station in November, 2016, after serving on the City Council since 2011. “Today, in the middle of the second decade of the 21st century, the City of College Station needs an experienced leader who has...

Lynne Aronoff (2019, 2020)

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Lynne Aronoff of Houston is the new chair of the Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission. She is the former president of StoneNet, Inc. She is also a former first and second grade teacher at the Hebrew Academy in Houston. Prior to that, she was a third grade teacher...

Rabbi Peter Tarlow, Ph.D (2019)

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Rabbi Peter Tarlow, Ph.D of College Station, is the former chairman  of the Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission, having been selected by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. He is a lecturer at Texas A&M University Medical School. He previously served as the Rabbi for...

Dr. Clifford Spiegelman (2019)

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Texas A&M University statistician Dr. Clifford H. Spiegelman has been appointed as the inaugural Official Statistician of the Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission. Spiegelman was unanimously accepted and approved by the commissioners of Austin-based...

Chancellor John Sharp (2019)

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John Sharp was appointed Chancellor of The Texas A&M University System by the Board of Regents on Sept. 6, 2011. On September 7, 2017, Governor Greg Abbott named him the commissioner of the Governor’s Commission to Rebuild Texas, which is dedicated to...