Shown in front – Sollie Davis, Austin Evans, Todd Frantz, Mark Hanna, Michael Hartman, Charlie Chapline, Chad Bridges and Trevor Royal. Standing – Sarah Smithey, Diana Butinski, Brenda Bowman, Glenn Schmidt, Amanda Bolin, Jill Curtis, Alicia Davis, Terry Reeves, Donna Lamb, Lisa Plowman Gregg, Ken Orlaska, Tyra McCollum, Suzanne Loehr, Cody Siebert, Sue McCarty and Crystal Sherrod. Not pictured are Robert Been, Yvonne Dawson, JC Hernandez, Jr., Randy Pryor, Mark Reed and Leena Taneja.
The Leadership Fort Bend Class of 2011, consisting of thirty-one business professionals, has been announced by the Central Fort Bend Chamber Alliance.
Allison Wen of Safari Texas hosted a reunion for alumni dating to 1986 recently. Jeff Council, Fort Bend County treasurer, and his wife Ann, inaugural program chairs, were present at the event, along with one of their first class members, Rebecca Beard Junker, Class of ’86.
This years class members are: Robert Been – engineering supervisor at NRG Energy, Amanda Bolin – Fort Bend County assistant district attorney, Brenda Bowman – executive director of the Literacy Council of Fort Bend, Chad Bridges – Fort Bend County assistant district attorney, Diana Butinski – detective with the Richmond Police Department, Charlie Chapline – administrator, Municipal District Services, Jill Curtis – executive director of Fort Bend Cares, Alicia Davis – membership director of the Central Fort Bend Chamber Alliance, Sollie Davis – assistant vice president of First Victoria Bank of Rosenberg, Yvonne Dawson – budget and treasury officer of Lamar Consolidated independent school district, Austin Evans – business development executive of ANCO-Wessendorff Insurance, Todd Frantz – editor and publisher of the Fort Bend Herald, Lisa Plowman Gregg – Fort Bend County assistant district attorney, Mark Hanna – Fort Bend County assistant district attorney, Michael Hartman – Fort Bend County assistant district attorney, Juan Carlos (JC) Hernandez, Jr., vice president of Debo Homes LLC, Donna Lamb – Welcome Center manager for Cross Creek Ranch, Suzanne Stieber Loehr – owner of the Stieber Insurance Group, Sue McCarty – vice president of OakBend Medical Center, Tyra Jones McCollum – Fort Bend County assistant district attorney, Ken Orlaska – account executive for Windstream Communications, Randy Pryor – service area director of CenterPoint Energy, Mark Reed – vice president of E.E. Reed Construction, Terry Reeves – project engineer at Jones & Carter, Inc., Trevor Royal – division manager of Republic Services, Inc., Glenn Schmidt – financial advisor for Edward Jones Investments, Sean Sevy – director of facilities and security for Methodist Sugar Land Hospital, Crystal Sherrod – community relations specialist for Fort Bend Family Health Center, Inc., Cody Siebert – branch manager and financial advisor for Briggs, Lancaster & Siebert Wealth Management, LLC, Sarah Smithey – financial planning associate for Rebecca Beard Junker, PC, and Leena Teneja – director of physician relations and marketing for Methodist Sugar Land Hospital.
The class will begin the year by traveling to Camp Allen Conference & Retreat Center in Navasota for two days in September.
The Chamber has initiated a waiting list for the Class of 2012, and encourages all interested persons to reserve a spot in the next class as soon as possible by submitting an application and deposit. Leadership Fort Bend is a nine-month program, September to May, beginning with a two-day retreat followed by six all-day sessions, a two-day trip to the State Capitol and a two-day closing retreat. The program includes training in communications, character building and personal career management skills, as well as community issues. The sessions’ topics include education, infrastructure and economic development, city and county government, county history, the judicial system, state government, health and social services and volunteerism. Alumni from past years assist in the facilitation of the program.
For more information about Leadership Fort Bend Class of 2012, visit the Chamber’s website at www.CFBCA.org or contact Jeremy Heath at 281-342-5464 or jheath@CFBCA.org.
