In 1981, Al became the General Manager and Chief Operating Officer to Labatt Food Service. A graduate of Texas Lutheran College in Secondary Education in 1978, he was all-conference in basketball in the Big State Conference, and did graduate work at the University of the Americas in Cholula, Puebla, Mexico. He was named Outstanding Young Graduate of Texas Lutheran in 1991.
He is a member of the Texas Cavaliers, and has been Chairman of the Good Samaritan Center twice, from 1999-2002 and from 2005-2007. An elected trustee of the Alamo Heights Independent School District, he was President of the board in 2005. He has served on the Board of the National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ) and Junior Achievement. He is Chair Elect of the Youth Orchestras of San Antonio (YOSA). In 2006 he was appointed by Governor Perry as a Regent of the North Texas University system (UNT). He received the FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award in 2003. |