Panelists included, from far left, Jack Colley, director of the Governor’s Division of Emergency Management; Sen. Robert Nichols of Jacksonville; and Steven McGraw, director of Texas Homeland Security.
Nichols served for eight years as Texas transportation commissioner and served on the Senate Committee on Transportation and Homeland Security during the 80th session of the Texas Legislature. The summit is a project of the Nacogdoches County Chamber of Commerce.
Bob Koenig, incident management team coordinator for the Texas Forest Service’s Incident Response Department, served as the moderator for a panel discussion on homeland security and transportation at the Lone Star Legislative Summit at Stephen F. Austin State University.