Longview Resident Reappointed by the Governor
Posted/updated on: February 26, 2016 at 4:18 pm
AUSTIN – Governor Greg Abbott has reappointed Linda Thomas of Longview presiding officer of the North East Texas Regional Mobility Authority. Her term will run through February 1st, 2018. The authority is a political subdivision created to finance, acquire, design, construct, operate, maintain, expand or extend transportation projects in North East Texas.
She was sworn in as head of the North East Texas Regional Mobility Authority in 2012. Thomas filled the chairman’s vacancy created in October 2011 when Governor Rick Perry appointed former chairman and Tyler banker Jeff Austin III to the Texas Transportation Commission.
Thomas is a general partner at Butter Ryan Partners, Ltd. She is treasurer of the Good Shepherd Medical Center Foundation Board and member of the University of Texas at Austin Liberal Arts Council, Kilgore College Foundation Board and the University of Texas at Tyler Longview University Center Development Council.
She is also past president of the Longview Rotary Club, Greater Longview United Way, Longview Economic Development Corporation and Junior League of Longview. Thomas received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Texas at Austin.
