HMI Texas' Board of Directors come from diverse backgrounds; bringing unique skills, knowledge and life expericences.

Each Director is elected by the membership at HMIT's Annual Conference, for a 3 year term.

HMI Texas' Current Board of Directors and Officers

Peggy Maddox, President 
David West Ranch
Ozona, Texas                        
 
 Peggy Maddox has served as the Director of Education and Public Relations at Holistic Management International West Ranch since June, 2002.  There she began the Kids on the Land project in 2003 directing the program and writing this accredited curriculum. In 2004 she became a Holistic Management Certified Educator. Prior to this she taught 17 years in the Sweetwater Public Schools.  She graduated from Angelo State University with a degree in History and Government with a secondary teaching certificate.  Her ranching experience began when she married a rancher.

Jerry Addison, Vice-President
Running High Ranch
Bowie, Texas
 
Jerry Addison, along with his wife Linda, are owner/operators of the 7,676 acre Running High Ranch in Montague County, Texas.  He has been practicing Holistic Management on his cow/calf/yearling operation since the middle 90s using approximately 90 paddocks in a planned grazing system.  He was a founding member of the Red River Grazers.

Debbie Davis, Secretary
Seco Valley Ranch
Hondo, Texas                
 
Deborah P. Davis earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the University of Texas at Austin and continued her education with undergraduate courses in Animal Science at South West Texas State University.  She began raising Texas Longhorn cattle in 1990 and with her husband Don manages a grassfed Texas Longhorn beef marketing company from their ranch in Tarpley, Texas.  She is the Past President and Registrar of the Cattlemen’s Texas Longhorn Registry and has served as Secretary and Newsletter Editor for that organization.  Additionally, the Davis’s founded the Cattlemen’s Texas Longhorn Conservancy, a 501(c)3 charitable organization devoted to preservation of the Texas Longhorn through education and scientific research.  Debbie was introduced to Holistic Management in 1999 and after a three-day training began managing with holistic principles.   Debbie and Don were Texas’ first Conservation Security Program Partners in 2004, a USDA-Natural Resource and Conservation Service program that promotes conservation of natural resources on private lands.

Dr. Pat Richardson, Treasurer
Research Ecologist, University of Texas   
Austin, Texas
 
Dr. Patricia Q. Richardson received a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from the University of Texas at Austin. For several decades she worked with university professors as a laboratory scientist, supervising research projects involving biochemistry of proteins and detection of insects in grain and grain products. In 1992, she changed career paths and began to work in the area of ecologically sound land management. Currently she is a Research Fellow at the University of Texas, and works with her husband Professor Dick Richardson in soil ecology, prairie and range restoration, and in formal and informal education. Her research has led to videography of soil mesofauna, mid-sized soil organisms that are crucial to cycling nutrients and dispersing bacteria and fungi in soil and plants.
 
John Hackley, past President
Richards Ranch
Jacksboro, Texas
 
John Hackley is the President of Richards Ranch, Inc. in Jack County Texas. He is 67 years young, and the 5th generation of his family to be charged with the management of this 15,000 acre, 1100 head cow/calf working ranch in North Central Texas.  John graduated from Midwestern State University with a BBA and worked in the banking industry for 8 years before returning to the family business.   In 1980 he became involved with holistic management and its principles attending a school with Allan Savory.  The ranch has received recognition from Texas Parks and Wildlife with their statewide "Lone Star Land Steward Award", Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers first Environmental Stewardship Award, National Cattleman's Beef Association Regional Land Stewardship Award, and the Society for Range Management's Outstanding Rangeland Management Award.  John is currently serving on the board of directors of Holistic Management International in Albuquerque, and is the past President of HMI – TEXAS.
 
Malcolm Beck
Author
San Antonio, Texas

Malcolm Beck founded and ran Garden-Ville, a successful organic farm with its own marketing center, for decades. During all that time he conducted his own research on organic growing techniques, lectured widely on his discoveries in managing plants and soils, and published a book on insects in the organic garden. Gradually his interest focused on how to achieve and permanently maintain the finest soil quality. That led him into much experimentation with composting which he eventually turned into a thriving business and even more books. Malcolm and Delphine Beck have been with Holistic Management Texas for about 12 years. He has been in great demand as an entertaining speaker with his home grown brand of research. Malcolm enjoys taking photos at the various ranches he visits and uses them in his talks to show the success of what he calls "HRM Ranching.".

Sharon Lane
Shadow Mountain Ranch
Arlington/Blooming Grove, Texas

Sharon Lane earned her B.S. of Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh.  She is the President/Owner of a boutique web design firm and Vice President of Lone Star Eateries.  For many years she was a computer instructor at Allegheny Community College (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) and UTA Continuing Education (Arlington, Texas).  Although a relative newcomer to Holistic Management, she is currently restoring a ranch to native habitat for wildlife; using livestock and the principles of HM.

Joe Maddox
David West Ranch
Ozona, Texas                   
 
Joe Maddox, 68, is a graduate of Texas Tech with a degree in Animal Management Husbandry.  He has been in ranching all of his life, first in Mitchell County, Texas and since 2001 as Manager of Holistic Management International West Ranch.  He has been practicing Holistic Management since 1986 and completed the Ranch and Range Manager program at HMI in 2004.
 
Dr. Paul B Martin
St. Phillips College-retired
Seguin, Texas                                
 
Dr. Paul B. Martin has both a B.S. and an M.S. from Texas A. & M. University.  He received a Ph.D. from the University of Florida in Agricultural Entomology.  He has served as Pasture Entomologist for the University of Georgia-Tifton from 1977 to 1981;  as Consultant in Entomology for the Center for Beef Cattle Production, EMBRAPA, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil from 1981 to 1983;  and as Pest Management Specialist, Director of Pest Management and Sustainable Agriculture Coordinator for the Texas Department of Agriculture, Austin from 1987 to 1994. Most recently he taught Principles of Biology and Environmental Biology at St. Philip’s College, San Antonio, from 1985  to 1986 as from 1994 to 2006.
 
Judith McGeary
Farm & Food Freedom Alliance
Austin, Texas                          
 
Judith McGeary is an attorney and a small farmer.  She has a B.S. in Biology from Stanford University and a law degree from the University of Texas.  After a clerkship with the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, she practiced as an attorney in administrative law, litigation, and appeals.  She left her legal practice to form the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance, to protect the interests of independent agriculture.  She and her husband live on an organic farm outside of Austin, with heritage poultry, sheep, cattle, and horses.   
            
Dr. Dick Richardson
Professor, University of Texas
Austin, Texas                   
 
Dr. R. H. (Dick) Richardson is a professor in Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin.  He grew up in Mexia, Texas and managed the family farm. His eldest daughter and her family live there today. He obtained a B.S. in Plant and Soil Science from Texas A&M, and a M.S. in Plant Breeding and a Ph.D. in Genetics both from North Carolina State University.  He met Allan Savory a couple decades ago, and became one of the original Certified Educators in Holistic Management (HM). Each spring he conducts two courses based on HM at the University of Texas, one a graduate course and the other for advanced undergraduates.
  
Richard Teague, Advisor
Texas AgriLife Research & Extension Center
Vernon, Texas

W. Richard Teague received his Ph.D. from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa in Botany and Ecology.  He received a BSc from the University of Natal, South Africa in Grassland Science.  He currently serves as Associate Resident Director and Professor in Ecosystem Science and Management at Texas AgriLife Research and Extension  Center – Vernon.  Previous positions include Agricultural Research Officer, Senior ARO and Specialist Researcher, South Africa, 1982 to 1991;  Pasture Science Lecturer, University of fort Hare, South Africa, 1982;  and Agricultural Research Officer, Matopos, 1978.