Child Advocates, Inc. Announces 2006 Board Leadership

HOUSTON—(January 3, 2006)—Mr. Bob Davis, financial analyst and partner with Davis Hamilton Jackson & Associates, has been newly appointed to Child Advocates, Inc.’s 2006 Board of Directors. Mr. Davis received a B.A. and an M.A. in Economics from the University of Texas at Arlington. In 1969 he joined Texas American Investment Services where he became an Investment Manager and Trust Officer. He subsequently spent two years with the institutional division of Shearson/Hammill and First International Investment Management Company. In 1976 he joined Citicorp Investment Management, Inc. where he began as a Senior Portfolio Manager and eventually became President and a Managing Director. In 1988, he formed Davis Hamilton Jackson & Associates. Mr. Davis is a Chartered Financial Analyst and member of the Houston Society of Financial Analysts, the Association for Investment Management and Research, and is also a Chartered Investment Counselor.

Nancy Thorington is the 2006 board chair for the organization. Thorington is a long-time court appointed advocate volunteer for the organization who previously served a two-year term as president of the Friends of Child Advocates. Kim David served as board chair for the organization in 2005.

Child Advocates, Inc. is a private, nonprofit organization that provides critical advocacy services for Houston’s most severely abused and neglected children. In the organization’s 20 years of service to the Houston community, more than 12,500 child victims of life threatening abuse, neglect and abandonment have been guided to homes that are safe and permanent.

Child Advocates, Inc. 2006 Board of Directors Appointments

Executive Board Members
Board Chair—Nancy Thorington
Chair-Elect—Milton West

Executive Committee
Cecil H. Arnim, III
Hildegarde Ballard
Kim David
Quinton Harp
Nolan Lehmann
Brad W. Robbins
Barbara Scott
Suzanne Thomas
Blake Young