Community Service Experience

1993
Served on State Level Task Force to develop Technical Resources Manual
for serving children with Attention-deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

1991
Special Recognition, Roswell Board of Education, for Crisis Service to
RISD parents, students and staff.

1982
Special Recognition for Service to Rehabilitation, State of NM.

1980
New Mexico State Advisory Panel for Mental Health

1977
Outstanding Employee of the Year, NM Rehabilitation Center.

1966
Volunteer Youth. Counselor, District Court of Chaves County, special
program for adjudicated delinquents.

Various Years
Reach 2000 Committees; Board of Directors, Our Corporation; Treasurer
Board of Directors, Esperanza House, Inc.; Board of Directors, United
Way of Chaves County; Board of Directors, Youth Soccer Association;
President, Board of Directors, American Red Cross; President, Board of
Directors, Community Counseling & Resource Center, Inc.; President
Board of Directors, Chaves County Arthritis Foundation; Board of
Directors, Youth and Resource Development Corporation; Advisory
Committee for Fund Raising, The Refuge—A Shelter for Battered Adults;
Board of Directors, Coalition for Youth; Board of Directors, Policy
Prevention Board; Board of Directors, President Big Brothers/Big
Sisters; Committee Member, Behavioral Health Subcommittee, Children's
Mental Health; Committee Member, Mental Health in the Schools;
Committee Member, Detention Center Education Committee; Committee
Member, Chaves County Interagency Council; Chair, Chaves County
Multidisciplinary Staffing Committee; Chair, New Mexico Counseling and
Therapy Practice Board; Chair, New Mexico Counseling and Therapy
Practice Board LPCC Standards Committee Chair

Professional Background

PhD, University of Illinois, 1972, Psychology

Retired 12/99 from active professional employment.

1986-1999

School Psychologist, Roswell Independent School District, Department of
Special Education, providing a range of clinical services to a broad
group of eligible children, their parents, teachers, as well as
building and district administrators. Professional Licensure: School
Psychologist; Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC).

1984-1986

Senior Clinical Therapist, Counseling Associates, Inc., handling a
general mental health caseload of children and adults providing family,
marriage, and individual therapy as well as involuntary civil
commitments to the Las Vegas Medical Center. Provided forensic
psychological evaluations in the Fifth Judicial District.

1983-1984

Financial Planner Associate, The Daniel Organization, acting as office
manager, personnel manager, preparing marketing proposals, composite
insurance policy financial comparisons, marketing correspondence and
contracts, and financial graphics; finalizing magazine articles for
national publications; developing business plans, brochures, budgets
and P & L statements for publication.

1972-1982

Psychological Test Consultant, Mincomp Corporation, Denver, CO,
developing electronic processing for four psychological tests for
marketing to an international clientele of schools, institutions of
higher education, and psychological testing centers.

1981 -1982

Management Consultant, NM Rehabilitation Center, designing, developing
and implementing a marketing program-development plan and conducting
the research necessary to successfully reverse their majority reliance
on public sector financial resources.

1978-1981

Executive Director, District Vl Area Mental Health Board, Inc.,
operating a five county comprehensive multi-million dollar program in
southeastern New Mexico including planning, organizing, staffing,
budgeting, funding, evaluating, and maintaining liaison with the board
of directors.

1975-1978

Associate Director, NM Rehabilitation Center with responsibilities for
management and administrative functions related to planning,
organizing, staffing, budgeting and evaluation of all program
components.

1974-1975

Director, Vocational Services Unit, NM Rehabilitation Center with
responsibilities for management and administrative functions related to
all program operations.

1972-1974

Assistant Professor/Psychologist, Regis College, Denver, CO, with full
teaching responsibilities as well as functioning as a psychologist in
the College Counseling Center.