Gov. Perry Reappoints Rowling To University of Texas System Board of Regents

AUSTIN – Gov. Rick Perry today announced the reappointment of Robert B. Rowling of Dallas to the University of Texas System Board of Regents to serve for a term to expire Feb. 1, 2011.

Rowling is chairman and CEO of TRT Holdings, Inc., and has served as chairman of Omni Hotels since 1996. He chairs the Southern Methodist University Tate Lecture Series. Rowling is a former board member of NationsBank of Texas, M. D. Anderson Hospital, the St. Paul and Zale Lipshy University Hospital in Dallas, and the University of Texas College of Business Administration Foundation. He is also former chairman of the Corpus Christi Area Economic Development Corporation. Rowling is a recipient of the 2003 Southern Methodist University Dedman Law School Distinguished Alumni Award and was inducted into the Texas Business Hall of Fame in October 2003.

A business graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, Rowling received a law degree from Southern Methodist University School of Law.

This appointment is subject to senate confirmation.