Thompson & Knight Attorney Elected President of Texas State History Museum Foundation

Thompson & Knight is pleased to announce that Victor Alcorta III has been elected President of the Texas State History Museum Foundation. His term begins January 2007.

Mr. Alcorta has served on the Texas State History Museum Foundation statewide Board of Trustees since 2003, the Executive Committee since 2005, and currently serves on the Executive Committee as President-Elect.

Mr. Alcorta is a partner in the Government Relations practice group in the Firm’s Austin office. He focuses his practice on government relations and public policy, legislative advocacy, administrative law, and campaign finance law. Mr. Alcorta represents clients before government agencies and the state legislature and has extensive experience in areas including environmental regulation, state taxation, transportation, insurance, technology, energy, border affairs, civil justice, and natural resources.

The Texas State History Museum Foundation is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization that was founded in 1999 to support the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum. The Foundation focuses its efforts on raising funding for the Museum’s educational programs in an effort to help make its over 100 free educational programs available to more Texans statewide. Since its opening in 2001, the Texas State History Museum has presented the story of Texas to over 3 million visitors, including 100,000 school children each year.

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