Trey Yelverton
Yelverton (’88 BA, Political Science) was promoted to city manager of Arlington in February. He had been deputy city manager since 2006, overseeing the departments of economic development, community services, parks and recreation, police and fire, and others.
Meshonda Cole
Cole (’01 BA, Interdisciplinary Studies) is the 2012–13 Teacher of the Year in the Dallas Independent School District. She has been with the DISD for 10 years and teaches sixth-grade math at Kennedy-Curry Middle School.
Curtis Frodge
Frodge (’06 BS, Mechanical Engineering) is a robotics engineer at NASA, where he has worked on Robonaut 2, the first humanoid robot in space, and Centaur 2, a mobility platform for Robonaut 2.
Walter Dansby
Dansby (’74 BA, Physical Education) was named superintendent of the Fort Worth Independent School District in February. Dansby, who began working at the FWISD as a teacher-coach in 1974, is the first African-American to hold the district’s top post.
Leonard Davis
Davis (’70 BA, Mathematics) became chief judge of the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas, in January. He has served as a U.S. district judge in Tyler since 2002.
