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02/10/2025
J. Yasmin Simon, JD is a member of the Parkland Board of Managers. She was appointed in January 2025 with her term ending in 2028. Simon is an attorney and partner at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius with more than 25 years of experience in litigation and risk management. She specializes in complex mass tort, toxic tort, occupational exposure, personal injury and wrongful death cases for companies in a variety of industries including industrial and petrochemical sectors. Simon has trial experience in courts ...
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04/19/2023
Vincent Hall is a member of the Parkland Board of Managers. He was appointed in April 2023 with his term ending in January 2026. Hall was recently appointed to the DFW International Airport Board by the Dallas City Council. He retired from Southwestern Bell AT&T as a General Manager in the Telecommunications Industry. He was responsible for sales and revenue generation and held a mutually beneficial working partnership with organized labor throughout his career. He is in the 21st year of his second ...
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04/07/2023
Byron Cryer, MD is a member of the Parkland Board of Managers. He was appointed in April 2023 with his term ending in January 2026. Dr. Cryer is currently the Chief of Medicine and the Ralph Tompsett Endowed Chair in Internal Medicine, Baylor University Medical Center (BUMC), a component of the Baylor Scott & White Health System. In September 2022, he joined BUMC after many years working as a physician in Gastroenterology at the Dallas VA Medical Center and as the Associate Dean for Faculty Developm...
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08/09/2022
Reina Gonzalez, JD, is a member of the Parkland Health Board of Managers. She was appointed in August 2022 with her term ending January 2025. Gonzalez is an attorney who founded her law firm in 2015 and has spent her entire career representing Spanish-speaking individuals in Dallas and surrounding counties. She is a plaintiff's attorney and has litigated several hundred cases in Dallas, Tarrant, and Collin counties, and serves as a Guardian Ad Litem and Attorney Ad Litem for numerous courts in Dallas. S...
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02/10/2022
Farida Minner, RN is a member of the Parkland Board of Managers. She was appointed in January 2022 with her term ending January 2025. Minner retired in July 2021 after more than 30 years in healthcare. Most recently, she served as charge nurse in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at the former St. Paul Hospital before transitioning to Clements University Hospital, which is owned by UT Southwestern Medical Center. While at St. Paul, she was a recipient of the Merit Award for Nursing Excellence, the...
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02/10/2022
Todd Furniss, JD, is the Secretary of the Parkland Board of Managers. He was appointed in January 2022 with his term ending January 2025. Furniss has more than 30 years of global experience in private equity, consulting and operations as senior level operating executive. Over the course of his career, he had done business extensively throughout the Americas, the European Union and Asia, and has implemented operations strategies that grew businesses in more than 10 industries. Prior to forming his compan...
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02/05/2021
Marjorie D. Petty, JD, is Chair of the Parkland Board of Managers. She was appointed February 2021 with her term ending January 2027. Petty served as federal Region VI Director of the Department of Health and Human Services in President Barack Obama's administration from December 2009 through January 2017. During her tenure, she worked to implement the Affordable Care Act throughout the Southwest which contained 30% of the nation's major ACA markets. At HHS, she oversaw 15 operating divisions and over 3...
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08/20/2020
Ramon Miguez, PE, is a member of the Parkland Board of Managers. He was appointed August 2020 with his term ending January 2025. Miguez most recently served as Vice President and Area Manager of HDR Engineering where he was responsible for offices in Dallas, Fort Worth, El Paso, Oklahoma City and Panama. His duties included managing more than 200 professionals involved in the delivery of a broad range of engineering services including planning, roadway, traffic, drainage, water, wastewater, structural, ...
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02/03/2020
Lisa Sutter is a member of the Parkland Board of Managers. She was appointed February 2020 with her term ending January 2026. Sutter is a Senior Stock Plan Administrator with McKesson Corporation where she manages their national and international stock plans. Her duties include financial reporting, SEC reporting, Assistant Corporate Secretary duties along with all aspects of Administration and auditing. Prior to joining McKesson, Sutter was with Stock and Option Solutions, Inc. as a consultant for public...
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04/02/2014
Elizabeth Palacios, MD, is the Vice-Chair of the Parkland Board of Managers. She was appointed February 2017 with her term ending January 2026. Dr. Palacios previously practiced internal medicine at White Rock Internal Medicine and East Lake Internal Medicine Associates in Dallas. Before earning her medical degree, she served as a medical services technician in the U.S. Air Force stationed at Homestead AFB, Florida. After leaving active duty, she served as an aeromedical evacuation technician in the USA...