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Biography - Jim Windham

Jim’s professional career includes over thirty-five years in public accounting, commercial and investment banking, and investment portfolio consulting, including three years with a national public accounting firm; eighteen years in commercial banking, including six years as chief executive officer of a major Houston bank; and fifteen years as managing principal of Windham Capital Advisory Services and its predecessor firm.

He is currently Chairman of the Texas Institute for Education Reform (www.texaseducationreform.org), a statewide non-profit organization of opinion leaders advocating K-12 public education reform.  He also publishes The Texas Pilgrim, a monthly letter of commentary on cultural and public policy issues, and has had board level experience in the banking, investment management, insurance, and venture capital industries, as well as leadership positions in local, regional, and statewide organizations.

He has served as chairman of the Texas Association of Business; vice chairman of the Texas Public Policy Foundation; chairman of the Texas Lyceum Association; member of the Board of Regents, Stephen F. Austin State University; member of the Executive Committee of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo; chairman of the Rodeo Institute for Teacher Excellence; chairman of Texas Business Leaders for Educational Choice; member of the State Board for Educator Certification; Director of the Texas Education Reform Caucus; member of the advisory board of the Charter School Policy Institute; and member of the Public Education Policy Task Force of the Governor’s Business Council. He also serves as a Director of the American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence and as a member of the Texas High School Completion and Success Initiatives Council.

A native of Livingston, Texas, he is a 1965 graduate of The University of Texas at Austin in Finance and Accounting.  He and his wife, Lela, live in Houston and have two grown daughters.