The TxSSC is advised by a Board of Directors consisting of 17 members required by statute to convene a minimum of four times per year. The board is required to be composed of the attorney general, the commissioner, the executive director of the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission, commissioner of the Department of State Health Services, the commissioner of higher education or designee or any of their respective designees. In addition, governor appointments to the board include a juvenile court judge, member of a school district’s board of trustees, administrator of a public primary school, administrator of a public secondary school, member of the state parent-teacher association, teacher from a public primary or secondary school, public school superintendent who is a member of the Texas Association of School Administrators, school district police officer, a professional architect who is registered in this state and a member of the Texas Society of Architects; and three members of the public. The responsibilities of the board include the following:

1. To approve the TxSSC’s budget for programs that further the TxSSC’s legislatively prescribed purposes or responsibilities and that fall within the TxSSC’s express or necessarily implied powers.
2. To report to the governor, the legislature, the State Board of Education, and the Texas Education Agency by January 1 of odd numbered years a biennial report. This biennial report shall consist of any findings made by the TxSSC regarding school safety and security and the TxSSC’s functions, budget information, and strategic planning initiatives.
3. To advise the TxSSC.

• Bill Avera

  School-Based Law Enforcement

• Craig Bessent

  Superintendent, Chair

• Kerri Brady

  Professional Architect

• Lizeth Cuellar Olivarez

  Public Teacher

• Edwin S. Flores, Ph.D.

  Member of Board of Trustees

• Kristina Turner, Ed.D.

  Texas Education Agency

• Bryan Hedrick

  Member at Large, Vice-Chair

• Robert Martinez

  Office of the Attorney General

• James M. Mosley

  Juvenile Court Judge

• Lillian Nguyen

  Health & Human Services Commission

• Teresa K. Oldham

  Member at Large

• Michael L. Slaughter

  Public Secondary School Administrator

• Jill M.Tate

  Texas Parent Teacher Association

• Alan Trevino

  Member at Large

• Marie Welschk, Ph.D., LPC

  Texas Juvenile Justice Department

• Robert W. Wilson, Ed.D.

  Public Primary School Administrator

• John Wyatt

  Texas Higher Education

  Coordinating Board