Thurgood Marshall School of Law Student Appointed as Student Regent

Cynthia A. Spooner, a second-year law student at Thurgood Marshall School of Law was appointed as a student regent by Governor Rick Perry on February 3, 2006. Spooner, a member of the Christian Legal Society, student ambassadors, and the American Bar Association Student Bar, received a bachelor’s degree in finance from Howard University in Washington, D.C. She also serves on several committees of the National Association of Realtors.

With terms to expire February 1, 2007, Governor Perry appointed 10 individuals as student regents for their respective university systems. In 2005, Governor Perry signed legislation providing that each public university board of regents shall include one student member. Student regents will have the same powers and duties as the members of the board of regents, with the exception of voting and being counted to determine a quorum.