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Owner-Pharmacist
The Medicine Shoppe
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- Self-employed
as a retail pharmacist and owner of two community pharmacies
and other business ventures
- Graduate
of the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of
Science Degree in pharmacy with certification in immunization,
diabetes care, and nutrition
- Mayor
for City of Edinburg from May 1993 to May 2003 and present
Mayor to May 2009
- ECISD
board member from May 1981 to May 1993
- Past
President and member of Edinburg Economic Development Corp.
- Co-Chairman
of I-69 Alliance - Highway 281
- Past
Chairman and present member of Hidalgo County Metropolitan
Planning Organization
- Member
South Texas Border Partnership
- Past
member of NAITCP (National Association of International
Trade Corridor Partnership)
- Achieved
two "All American City" awards as Mayor for Edinburg
in 1995 and 2000
- Outstanding
Business Award 1995 from UTPA-SIFE
- Leadership
in Economic Development award from the American Economic
Development Council - 1995
- Clean
Cities Award 2000 and 2001 - State of Texas Recognition
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