BBB Announces 2007 Board of Directors and Officers

Austin, Texas Feb 15, 2007 The Better Business Bureau, Inc. serving Central and South Central Texas announces today that Robert Bobby Jenkins, Jr. of ABC Pest and Lawn Service, was elected Chair of the BBB for 2007 and was officially installed at the 56th Annual Meeting.

Other officers elected to the Board were: Chair-elect, Jim Lydon, AT&T; Secretary, Kathryn Frank, Kathryn Frank CPA; Treasurer, T. Getterman, Supercuts; and President/CEO, Carrie A. Hurt, Better Business Bureau. Three directors were appointed to serve on the Executive Committee. They are: Jim Cripe, Valet Cleaners; Jon E. Eckert, Compass Bank; and Nancy Thompson, Sayers & Associates, Inc. Past Chairman Monica Benoit-Beatty, Arbonne International, also serves as a member of the committee.

The following directors comprise the 2007 BBB Board: Richard Brouse, Sweetwater Filtration; Marty Bush, Bush Building Corporation; Carla D'Andrea, Waco Tribune-Herald; Doug Davidson, BMC Building Materials; Jeff A. Davis, Consumer Credit Counseling Services; Monica Davis, Davis Group Inc, Teleclip Inc.; Jeff Evins, Evins Personnel; LeGrand Fairbourn, IBM; Laurens Fish III, Weed-Corley-Fish; Lisa Griffin, Perry Office Plus; Steve Hanik, Embarq; Bobby Hoxworth, First National Bank – Texas; Susan Jones, Heights Mortgage Connection Inc.; Kent Krauss, San Antonio Business Journal; Peter Kultgen, Bird Kultgen Inc; Nancy Lewis, Grande Communications; Russell Livesay, Med-Equip; Leslie Lockett, HEB; Terry Maness, Baylor University; Ted McKnight, Mail Center USA; Ray Parsons, Parsons' Office Systems; Odis Pippins, Fort Hood National Bank; Ron Robbins, Dell, Inc.; Clark Ross, Texas Star Document Services; Carol Rowald, Heart of Texas Landscape & Irrigation Co.; Mark Rowe, Henna Chevrolet; Darrell Sander, Frost Bank; Ken Schiller, Rudy's Country Store & BBQ; John Seabers, KABB-TV; Angie Sinkfield, The Ted Smith Law Firm PLLC; Patti Smith, KVUE-TV, Inc.; David Sterling, Extraco Banks; Bob Stewart, Austin American-Statesman; Chris Strand, Strand Brothers; Jim Van Winkle, Americus Diamond; Ed Veiga, Fort Hood Family Housing; and Kurt Wade, Carpet One. David H. Donaldson Jr., with the firm Graves Dougherty Hearon & Moody P.C. represents the Better Business Bureau as its legal counsel.

About Better Business Bureau
The Better Business Bureau, Inc. serving Central and South Central Texas (BBB) was founded in 1950 as a non-profit membership organization. The mission of the BBB is to promote and foster the highest ethical relationship between businesses and the public through voluntary self-regulation, consumer and business education, and service excellence.

This Better Business Bureau is currently supported by approximately 6,900 member businesses and serves more than 3,000,000 consumers in its 52-county service area in Texas. These counties include: Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Bosque, Burnet, Caldwell, Calhoun, Comal, Comanche, Coryell, Dewitt, Dimmit, Edwards, Falls, Fayette, Freestone, Frio, Goliad, Gonzales, Guadalupe, Hamilton, Hays, Hill, Jackson, Karnes, Kendall, Kerr, Kinney, Lampasas, LaSalle, Lavaca, Limestone, Llano, Maverick, McLennan, McMullen, Medina, Mills, Navarro, Real, San Saba, Travis, Uvalde, Val Verde, Victoria, Webb, Williamson, Wilson, and Zavala.