(L-R) Oscar Fogle, Caldwell County; Tommy Mathews, Kendall County; Myrna McLeroy, Gonzales County; Judge Gary Steel, Arlene Marshall, Calhoun County; Dennis Patillo,Victoria County and Rusty Brockman, Comal County.

Appointees of Governor Rick Perry took the oath of office Wednesday, April 20, 2011 during the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority Board of Directors meeting. District Judge Gary Steel swore in three new board members, Rusty Brockman, Thomas Mathews II, and Dennis L. Patillo, and three reappointed members, Myrna Patterson McLeroy, Oscar H. Fogle, and Arlene N. Marshall.

Marshall of Port Lavaca, is president of the Calhoun County Economic Development Corporation and former Calhoun County judge. She is president of the Victoria College Calhoun County Center Advisory Board and a board member of Golden Crescent Workforce, Victoria College Foundation, and University of Houston-Victoria President’s Advisory Board. She is also past president of the Rotary Club of Port Lavaca. Marshall received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Houston. She is reappointed for a term to expire Feb. 1, 2017.

These appointments were confirmed Wednesday, April 13, 2011 by the Senate.

The GBRA was established by the Texas Legislature in 1933 as a water conservation and reclamation district. GBRA provides stewardship for the water resources in its 10-county statutory district, which begins near the headwaters of the Guadalupe and Blanco rivers, ends at San Antonio Bay, and includes Kendall, Comal, Hays, Caldwell, Guadalupe, Gonzales, DeWitt, Victoria, Calhoun, and Refugio counties.