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Lisa Hall

Nancy Coplen
Nancy Coplen has served on the GCISD Board of Trustees, since May 2001 and was re-elected in May of 2007. She has been an active community volunteer for 19 years in the Grapevine-Colleyville area.

Her involvement within the district includes the Parent Advisory Committee, District Improvement Plan, Principal Selection Committee, Diversity Advisory Council, Fine Arts Advisory Committee, Partners in Education Committee and the Attendance Area Revision Committee.

Nancy served as president of the Colleyville Heritage PTSA for two years, and on the Heritage Middle School PTA. She was developer and designer of the outdoor classroom at Heritage Middle School for eight years, and designed the Panther Senior Plaza at Colleyville Heritage High School. She served on the GCISD Council of PTAs as first vice president and secretary. and the Grapevine High School PTSA Board. Nancy holds an Extended Life Membership with the Texas PTA, and has been a member of the GCISD Band Boosters for 10 years. She is past president of Grapevine High Cheerleader Booster Club, a past member of the CEC at Colleyville Heritage High School, and the GHS & CHHS Athletics Boosters. She received the Partners in Education Texas State Adult Volunteer for 2005.

Within the community, Nancy has been involved for 20 years with the Boy Scouts of America. She is a member of the Colleyville Woman’s Club, Colleyville Garden Club, Grapevine Chamber of Commerce - Women's Division, Grapevine Historical Society and Colleyville Chamber of Commerce. She serves as an advisory member of the Colleyville Chamber, and the Colleyville Library Board. In addition to coaching youth basketball and tennis, Nancy is a past president of children and youth groups at her church.

Nancy graduated from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo in 1977 with a bachelor's degree in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design. While in college, she played NCAA Division II women's tennis. She has been a draftsman for Pac Bell, Georgia Tech and other various companies. Other jobs include tennis coach for Morro Bay High, Morro Bay, California; Tennis America and ALTA Youth coach, Atlanta, Georgia; freelance landscape designer and small business owner; certified basketball referee for high schools in California; and substitute teacher for three years in GCISD.

Nancy and her husband, Phil, have five children who are all graduates of GCISD and four grandchildren.

Lisa Hall
Lisa Hall was elected to the GCISD Board of Trustees in May 2004 and re-elected in May 2007. She has served as vice president of the Board for two consecutive terms, and has been re-elected to that post for 2008-09. She has lived in Northeast Tarrant County 38 years with 15 of those years being in Colleyville.

Lisa has been an active volunteer in both the community and school district. She has volunteered at Bransford Elementary for eight years, serving as PTA president for two years, vice president of Fundraising, Health and Safety, chairman of the Campus Excellence Committee, reading tutor and many other areas. She is currently on the Colleyville Middle School PTA Board, beginning her second year as second vice president –Ways & Means. She is also a member of both the Athletic and Choir Booster clubs. She was the recipient of the Life Time Member Award for PTA and the Hero of Children Award for District 11 awarded by the Texas Department of Education in Austin.

Within the community, Lisa serves as a director of the Grapevine Colleyville Education Foundation and as a member of the National Charity League. Her past involvement includes Meals on Wheels, Girl Scout Leader and Youth Sunday School Teacher.

Lisa attended Tarrant County College and University of Texas in Arlington. She was employed in the legal field for 12 years prior to becoming a full time homemaker and volunteer.

Lisa and her husband, Tom, have two children and live in Colleyville.

Leon Leal

Jesse G. Rodríguez
Jesse G. Rodríguez was elected to the board in May 2002, re-elected in May 2005 and May 2008. Rodriguez is a Texas Association of School Boards Master Trustee and an Area Director-at-large for the North Texas Area Association of School Boards. He is a member of the 2004 Leadership Class of the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB), the Colleyville Chamber of Commerce, and the Grapevine Chamber of Commerce.

A resident of Grapevine-Colleyville for 18 years, Rodríguez is active in the district and community, serving on the board of directors of the Grapevine-Colleyville Education Foundation, as a member of the Glenhope Campus Excellence Committee, president of the Glenhope Dads Club, a member of the Glenhope PTA Executive Board and a director on ARTSNET. He has also served as a member on the district's Budget Review Stakeholder Committee.

Rodríguez earned a bachelor's degree in History and Political Science and a master's degree in School Administration from Texas A&I in Kingsville, where he also received his mid-management and superintendent's certification. His work experience includes high school history and government teacher, school administrator, owner and director of an area private preschool and manager of sales for several major publishing, technology and assessment companies. Currently, Rodríguez is the Texas Regional Vice President with Peoples Education.

He and his wife, Joanne, have two sons and live in Colleyville.

Jorge Rodríguez

Jorge Rodríguez was elected to the Board in May 2008. Jorge Rodriguez and his wife Jill of 12 years have been residents of Grapevine since 1995. They have two children, Jasmine, who is a third grader at Timberline Elementary and Julian, who is in preschool.

Jorge has an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from the University of Puerto Rico, a master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and a master in business administration from the University of Dallas. He has worked in the
telecommunications industry for over 14 years at Motorola, Nokia and currently at the ATX Group. He is a member of the National Society of Hispanics with MBAs. He has been a long time donor of educational organizations such as the National Action Council for Minorities in
Engineering and the National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science.

Jorge is an active member of the Dad's club with the Timberline Elementary PTA. He has been the coordinator and block captain for his neighborhood crime watch program for over 5 years. As a member of the Good Shepherd Catholic Church, he serves on the Community Men's Club
Outreach Committee, and he and his wife serve as a Marriage Sponsor Couple. He is also an active volunteer for many of the children's programs at his church.

Vicki Thomas
Vicki Thomas was first elected to the GCISD Board of Trustees in May 2003 and re-elected for a second term in May 2006. Vicki has been a resident of the Grapevine-Colleyville area for 20 years.  She has been an active school and community volunteer. She has served in various roles on both the PTA executive boards of Grapevine Elementary and Heritage Middle schools. Vicki has served on the Campus Excellence Committee for Grapevine Elementary, as a parent representative for the District Excellence Committee. Vicki also served three years as the Grapevine Parks and Recreation GCISD liaison. She now serves as the DEC Board, liaison and is is member of the CHHS PTSA and Athletic Booster Club.

Vicki is the Group Manager for Solutions Engineering for PepsiCo Business Solutions Group's Global Technology and Architecture team. She has been with PepsiCo since October 2005. She has worked in information technology for over 18 years. Her job responsibilities include the infrastructure project deployment oversight and governance for for Pepsi Cola, Frito-Lay, Quaker, Tropicana, Gatorade, Pepsi Bottling Group and Pepsi International.  Her previous experience includes Technical Services Manager for a global risk management company and various roles with IT outsourcers Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) and Electronic Data Systems (EDS).

Vicki earned her bachelor's degree in Communications from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1988.

Vicki is actively involved with both her daughter's extracurricular activities, All-Star Cheerleading and Competitive Select Soccer.

She and her husband of 21 years, Bob, live in Colleyville.  They have two daughters at CHHS; Katy is a senior and Brittney is a sophomore.

Charlie Warner
Charlie was elected to the Board in May 2002, and was re-elected in May of 2003 and again in May of 2006.
 
Warner earned a Master's Degree in Industrial Administration from the University of Dallas and a Bachelor's of Business Administration degree from the University of Iowa.
 
Warner is Regional Vice President for Seiko Corporation of America, and has been with Seiko since 1981 in various sales and administrative related positions.  Other work experience includes nine years at AON, where he worked in human resources, administration and sales.
 
An active member of the Grapevine/Colleyville community for many years, he has been a member of the Colleyville Elementary PTA, CTMS PTA, GHS PTSA, GHS Booster Club and volunteer/sponsor of GHS Project Graduation.
 
Warner has been a coach of soccer, baseball and basketball for over thirty years and has served as Commissioner of the Trophy Club Soccer Club and President of the Trophy Club Youth Sports Association.
 
He and his wife, Cindy, have lived in Colleyville for the past thirteen years.  They have four children; Mark and Clint are both graduates of GHS and UT; Clay and Paige are both students at GHS.