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2023-2024 Staff Senate

Elected Senators serve a 2-year term and alternates serve a 1-year term.
Get to know your local campus senators!

Executive Committee for FY 2025

Vashati Gonzales

President

Vashati Gonzales
Senator - Exempt
Director
HSC Student Affairs
Term 2023-2025

Tom Price

Vice President


Thomas Price
Senator - Non-Exempt
Professional Development Specialist
Office of People and Values
Term 2023-2025

Ashley Rhea

Secretary


Ashley Rhea
Senator - Non-Exempt
Business Coordinator
Finance and Administration
Term 2023-2025

Rebecca Perry

Treasurer


Rebecca Perry
Senator - Exempt
Executive Associate
School of Pharmacy Administration
Term 2023-2025

Sharon Perkins

Webmaster


Sharon Perkins
Alternate - Exempt
ENT II Engineer
Techlink
Term 2024-2025

 

Staff Senators

Abilene Campus

Missy Caton

Missy Caton
Senator - Exempt
Assistant Managing Director
School of Pharmacy
Second Term 2023-2025

Michael Gutierrez

Michael Gutierrez
Senator - Exempt
Campus Business Officer
Finance & Administration
Term 2023-2024

Kaytee Nault

Kaytee Nault
Senator - Exempt
Mental Health Clinician
TCHATT Program
Term 2024-2026

Thomas Price

Thomas Price
Senator - Non-Exempt
Professional Development Specialist
Office of People and Values
Term 2023-2025

Ashley Rhea

Ashley Rhea
Senator - Non-Exempt
Business Coordinator
Finance and Administration
Term 2023-2025

 

Amarillo Campus

Jack Determan

Jack Determan
Senator - Non-Exempt
Mechanic II
Bldg Maintenance and Operations
Term 2023-2025

Tiffany Ostrom

Tiffany Ostrom
Alternate - Non-Exempt
Patient Services Specialist
Surgery Department
Term 2024-2025

Rebecca Perry

Rebecca Perry
Senator - Exempt
Executive Associate
School of Pharmacy Administration
Term 2023-2025

Cris Sheffield

Cris Sheffield
Alternate - Non-Exempt
Medical Administrative Secretary
Internal Medicine
Term 2024-2025

 Karen Thompson

Karen Thompson
Alternate - Non-Exempt
Business Coordinator
Clinical Research Unit, SOM
Term 2024-2025

Deborah Trammell

Deborah Trammell
Senator - Non-Exempt
Lead Analyst
Department of Surgery
Term 2023-2025

Correctional Managed Health Care (CMHC)

Malissa Campbell

Malissa Campbell
Senator - Exempt
Project Manager
Managed Care - Abilene Campus
2nd Term 2024-2026

Ginger Griffin

Ginger Griffin
Senator - Non-Exempt
Section Coordinator
Managed Care - Abilene Campus
Term 2024-2026

 

Dallas Campus

Trina Brown

Trina Brown
Senator - Exempt
Assistant Managing Director
School of Pharmacy Administration
Term 2023-2025

Amanda Jenson

Amanda Jenson
Senator - Exempt
Unit Manager
School of Nursing Admin; Mansfield DLS
Term 2024-2026

Jennifer Lee

Jennifer Lee
Senator - Non-Exempt
Lead Specialist
School of Pharmacy
Term 2024-2026

Sue Pell

Sue Pell
Alternate - Exempt
Unit Manager
Asst. to the Dallas Regional Dean, School of Nursing
Term 2024-2025

Sharon Perkins

Sharon Perkins
Alternate - Exempt
ENT II Engineer
Techlink
Term 2024-2025

 

Lubbock Campus

Dustin Barnett

Dustin Barnett
Senator - Non-Exempt
Sr. Patient Services Specialist
Family Medicine
Term 2024-2026

Alex Dorado

Alexander Dorado
Alternate - Exempt
Asst. Director of Advising & Recruitment
School of Medicine Office of Admissions
Term 2024-2025

Kenzie Garza

Kenzie Garza
Alternate - Exempt
Unit Manager
Department of Surgery Admin
Term 2024-2025

Vashati Gonzales

Vashati Gonzales
Senator - Exempt
Director
HSC Student Affairs
Term 2023-2025

Teresa Hayden

Teresa Hayden
Senator - Non-Exempt
Assistant to Charla Allen, MD, Interim Chair
Dept. of Family & Community Medicine
2nd Term 2023-2025

Debbie Martinez

Debbie Martinez
Alternate - Non-Exempt
Senior Administrative Assistant
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Term 2024-2025

Chris Mendez

Christopher Mendez
Senator - Exempt
Unit Manager
Family Medicine
Term 2023-2025

Allison Pritchard

Allison Pritchard
Alternate - Exempt
Unit Manager
School of Nursing
Term 2024-2025

 

Midland Campus

Paulette P. Ciulla

Paulette P. Ciulla
Senator - Non-Exempt
Guard
Police 
Term 2023-2025

 

 

Odessa Campus

Belinda Carrasco

Belinda Carrasco
Senator - Non-Exempt
Senior Guard
Police
2nd Term 2024-2026

Keitha Clifton

Keitha Clifton
Senator - Non-Exempt
Business Coordinator
School of Health Professions
Term 2024-2026

Armando Hernandez, Jr.

Armando Hernandez, Jr.
Senator - Exempt
Safety Manager
Safety Services
Term 2023-2025