Friendship Alliance is an all-volunteer organization.
All board members and all FA volunteers donate their time, talent and energy uncompensated. Please thank them when you see them!
President
Carlos Torres-Verdin
Ila Creek neighborhood
Secretary
Jeanine Christensen
Radiance Community
At-large board member
Dixie Camp
Blue Creek neighborhood
At-large board member
Jessica Scott
Goldenwood Neighborhood
At-large board member
Terry Shaw
Radiance Community
The Hall of the Heroes
Rob Baxter
(former President)
Goldenwood POA
Rob Baxter has been President of Goldenwood POA since 2000. He presently works through his own company providing services as a lighting director, production manager and/or gaffer for clientele ranging from the New York City Ballet (20 years) and the NBA (18 years) to Presidential Inaugurations from ’93 to ’09. He also owns a small company specializing in the sale of portable digital lighting control devices for the professional lighting market as well as developed and patented a new court lighting system for the L.A. Lakers. Elsewhere locally, he has been on the board of Envision Central Texas, the five county, central Texas regional visioning organization, since 2002. His favorite position though, was Asst. Scoutmaster of Troop 2001.
Brian Dudley
(former Vice President)
Goldenwood POA
Brian is a civil engineer who has lived in the Austin area almost continuously since arriving at the University of Texas in 1979. Brian and his family have lived at Hays County’s western edge of the Edwards Aquifer for 11 years now and draw water directly up from the aquifer to flow out of the household faucets. Brian has served on the County’s Blue Ribbon Transportation Committee, the Dripping Springs Independent School District Schoolbus Advisory Committee and the Architectural Committee of his property owners association.
James K. George Jr.
(emeritus)
Bear Creek Estates POA
Jim George is retired from the semiconductor industry and Motorola where he served as Corporate Vice President for the final fifteen years of his career. His responsibilities during that time included several worldwide product divisions, as well as strategy for the Wireless and Broadband Systems business. He grew up in West Virginia, and has a BSEE (Virginia Tech) and MSEE (Arizona State). Jim is married, and he and his wife Diana have three grown children and four grandchildren. He serves on the Leadership Council for KUT FM as well as working with the City of Dripping Springs on rewriting their Subdivision Ordinances. Additional interests include amateur radio, hiking, and writing.
(Former Board Members)
Karen Ford; Nutty Brown Road
Roger Kew; Radiance POA
Greg Markley; Bear Creek Estates POA
Charles O’Dell; Nutty Brown Road (you are missed! rest in peace!)
Bret Raymis; Big Country NA
Doug Wierman; Blue Creek POA
Jonathan Steinberg; Fieldstone POA
Neil Carman; Radiance POA