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