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Bruce
A. Austin
District II
District Map
TRUSTEE PERSPECTIVE
Bruce A. Austin is a native
Houstonian, where he attended Wheatley High School. Elected to the HCC
Board of Trustees in 1989, Mr. Austin was chairman from 1990 to 1992 and
again from 2000 to 2002. He served as deputy secretary of the Board in
2006.
Mr. Austin proudly
served in the U.S. Navy for 10 years. During his tenure, he was nominated
for the U.S. Navy Sailor-of-the-Year award. He was awarded a Presidential
Management Internship. He served in the United States Department of
Justice, Washington, DC, in the Offices Administrative Counsel, Information
Technology, Controller and Personnel (management analyst, staff
coordinator, budget analyst, personnel analyst and deputy United States
Marshal) and in the Office of the Assistant Attorney General for
Administration (staff assistant,).
Upon his return to
Houston in 1984, he served as special assistant to Commissioner El Franco
Lee and later as Harris County's director of Housing and Community
Development. While serving as director, the agency became the first
non-federal organization to receive the Vice President's Hammer Award
(1996).
Mr. Austin is a proud alumnus of Texas Southern University where he
received a BA in political science, MPA in public administration
(specialization in policy analysis and administrative law), and JD – Juris
Doctorate. He continued his quest for learning by engaging in further study
through the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (budget formulation and
federal budget processing) and attended the Department of Agriculture
Graduate School (negotiation, administration, contracting and systems
operations). Post-education studies included The Cambridge Institute at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University's John F.
Kennedy School of Government (Community and Economic Development Program).
Since 1986, Mr. Austin
has dedicated himself to the art of teaching by serving as an adjunct
professor in the graduate schools of the University of Houston – Clear Lake
and Texas Southern University. For six years, he served as director
at-large, Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT), Washington, DC;
region director, Southwestern Region ACCT; and a member of the Joint
Commission on Federal Relations. He is a poet and artist and is fairly
conversational in French, Spanish and Tagalog.
ACHIEVEMENTS/AWARDS
- Past President, Houston Chapter of the American
Society of Public Administration
- Recipient, National Performance Review Award from
Vice President Al Gore
- Western Region Trustee of the Year, Association of
Community College Trustees
- Member, Pi Alpha Alpha National Honor Society for
Public Affairs & Administration
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