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biosketch as of 1998
MARTHA E. SMILEY of Austin was appointed to a six-year term
on the Board of Regents of The University of Texas System by
Governor Ann Richards in 1993. She served as a vice-chairman of
the Board from March 1995 to February 1997. She was Chairman of
the Business Affairs and Audit Committee in 1995-1997
and has served as Chairman of the Special Committee on
Telecommunications and Minorities and Women since 1997.
As a Principal in The EDGS Group, Ms. Smiley currently provides
strategic planning and business development consultation to
telecommunications companies having retired as a partner from the
law firm of Bickerstaff, Heath & Smiley where she served from
1981 to 1995. From 1979 to 198i she was counsel for Region VI
of the Environmental Protection Agency, and from 1973 to 1979 she
was chief of the taxation division of the Texas Attorney
General's Office. From 1972 to 1973 she was a staff attorney for
the Law Research Corp.
The areas of emphasis in Ms. Smiley's law practice include
public law, communications law and administrative law. She is a
life fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation and has been active in
the State Bar Association, including serving as vice chair of the
Committee for a More Effective State Bar, chair of the Committee
on Effective Participation of Women in the Bar, and a member of
the Committee on State Bar Disciplinary Procedures.
Ms. Smiley's many civic and community activities have
included serving as chair of the Collaboration Committee of the
A-Plus Coalition of the Austin school district, serving as
commissioner and vice chair of the Texas National Research
Laboratory Commission, and serving as a member of the citizens
advisory committee for the start-up of the Texas state lottery.
She also has been a member of the board of directors of the
Foundation for Women's Resources, the Austin Women's Center, the
Texas Rape Prevention and Control Project, the Austin Area Urban
League, and the Austin Commission on the Status of Women. She
has chaired the Austin Women's Political Caucus and the Texas
Women's Political Caucus, and in 1978-79 she served on the
Administrative Committee of the National Women's Political
Caucus.
Ms. Smiley received the 1991 Outstanding Achievement Award
from the Travis County Women Lawyers. In 1978 she was named the
Outstanding Woman in Justice by the American Association of
University Women, and in 1977 she was selected as the Woman of
the Year by the Texas Women's Political Caucus.
Ms. Smiley, a native of Mission, Texas, received a
bachelor's degree in sociology from Baylor University in 1969,
where she was President of the student body, and a law degree from
The University of Texas at Austin in 1972. She has been a member of
the board of directors and the executive committee of the Texas Law
School Alumni Association and was recently named to the Advisory
Board of Directors of Entergy Corporation.
last updated May 1998
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