Wallace Hall, Jr.
| Wallace L. Hall, Jr. | |
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In office February 2011 – present |
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| Alma mater | The University of Texas at Austin (1984) |
Wallace L. Hall is a former member of The University of Texas System Board of Regents whose six-year tenure was marked by controversy. Hall was appointed in February 2011 by Governor Rick Perry, and was replaced in February 2017.
Following his appointment as a regent to the 14-institution University of Texas System, Hall began a series of investigations specifically into the administration of the University of Texas at Austin. He was the first regent to publicly raise concerns about external influence on the admissions process at the school. A state legislative committee subsequently initiated controversial impeachment proceedings against him. The proceedings were eventually dropped but led to a censure by the committee for “misconduct, incompetency in the performance of official duties, or behavior unbefitting a nominee for and holder of a state office.”
On December 14, 2015, State District Judge Scott Jenkins of Austin-based Third Court of Appeals threw out a lawsuit filed by Hall against Chancellor William H. McRaven, who had denied Hall's request for confidential student records relating to his ongoing investigations. Hall's attempt to gain access to confidential student records proved unsuccessful when his term as Regent expired in February of 2017.
In 1980 Hall graduated from the St. Mark's School of Texas. He has served as President of the school's alumni association and was a long time member on the school's board of trustees. He earned a bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1984.
He is the founder and President of Wetland Partners, LP, which operates the controversial Trinity River Mitigation Bank. Trinity River Mitigation is a wetlands bank the stated purpose of which is to mitigate U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) approved environmental impacts to the aquatic system as per the Clean Water Act. Environmentalists object that Hall's bank allows hydraulic fracking in environmentally sensitive areas. Hall had a 15-year career in the financial services industry, as a securities analyst, financial futures trader and as financial principal of a NASD broker-dealer. Hall's other business include oil and gas investments.
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