HUGH NATIONS
Experience
Signing
Agent Began
Signing Agents of Austin after refinancing his own home in 2002. Has
handled thousands of closings since.
Loan
Officer Former loan officer; reverse mortgage specialist.
Executive Retired July 2002 as executive director of Men & Fathers Resource
Center and LoneStar Fatherhood Initiative, Austin non-profit associations
offering legal, counseling and DNA services to men in family law matters in Central and South Texas and the Rio Grande
Valley
Attorney Retired from Georgia State Bar; engaged in general practice of law in Atlanta for 11 years before returning home to Texas and to journalism.
Publisher
Published Builder/Architect magazine, Austin edition, serving the homebuilding and architectural community.
Teacher
Served on journalism faculty at Texas
State University, teaching desktop publishing. Taught computer editing while doing masters
in journalism at University of Texas.
Journalist
Held posts ranging from night city editor to reporter on several
newspapers, including the Houston Post, San Antonio Express-News, and Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Covered city and county governments, schools, legislature, business; also served as primary feature writer, copy editor, make-up
editor.
PR Director of public relations for Alamo Area Boy Scout Council, San Antonio.
Miscellany
Paul Harris Fellow, Rotary... avid
camper, longtime birdwatcher, woefully inadequate vegetable gardener… frequent
public speaker, talk show guest…former volunteer public relations
director for Georgia Republican Party (current affiliation: Independent) and for presidential campaign in Georgia; campaign advisor for Newt Gingrich’s first successful congressional race…extensive magazine freelancing…country
& western lyricist; poet, producing notably unpublishable sonnets…skeletal Spanish…stumble-footed
ballroom dancer...educational consultant, evaluating teacher certification exams from several states…proud native
Texan.
Education Bachelor’s degree in English and Journalism, Texas State
University; most undergraduate work at Baylor. Master’s degree work at the University
of Texas. Law school at Texas Southern University, Houston, and Woodrow Wilson College of Law, Atlanta, GA.
