Gov. Perry Appoints Austin to Northeast Texas Regional Mobility Authority

May. 19, 2006

AUSTIN – Gov. Rick Perry has announced the reappointment of Jeff Austin III of Tyler as chair of the Northeast Texas Regional Mobility Authority (NETRMA) for a term to expire Feb. 1, 2008. Regional mobility authorities were created as a way to allow local communities to develop regional transportation priorities and to accelerate development and financing for critical transportation projects. The NETRMA currently serves Smith and Gregg counties and is in the process of expanding to include Cherokee, Harrison, Rusk and Upshur counties.

Austin is the vice chairman and a member of the executive committee and board of directors of Austin Bank. He serves as director of Texas Lyceum, past chairman of the Tyler Chamber of Commerce and past president of the East Texas Area Council Boy Scouts of America. Austin is on the board of the Texas Bankers Association and past chairman of the Texas Bankers Association Service Company. He also serves on the advisory board of the University of Texas at Tyler School of Business and Technology. Austin serves on the board of the Tyler Economic Development Council and the Trinity Mother Frances Hospital Foundation. He is former president of the Rotary Club of Jacksonville and former member of the Texas Department of Transportation Regional Mobility Authority Rules Advisory Committee.

A graduate of the University of Texas at Tyler, he also received a master’s degree from the University of Texas at Tyler. Austin is a graduate of the Southwestern Graduate School of Banking at Southern Methodist University and the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.