Jim Atkinson

  • Author, The Soldiers’ Chronology (New York: Garland, 1993)
  • Director of personnel and labor relations (retired), Colgate-Palmolive
  • Consultant, behavioral assessment of candidates for eight North Texas police departments
  • Charter Mediator, Dispute Resolution Services of North Texas
  • District Chairman, Boy Scouts of America, Longhorn Council
  • Advisory Board, Salvation Army, Adult Rehabilitation
  • Founding Sponsor, National Museum United States Army
  • Company of Military Historians; the Infantry Association
  • Tarrant County Archeological Society; Historic Fort Worth; Arlington Heights Neighborhood Association board of directors; TCU Foundation
  • Texas Christian University: graduate, business and labor law

Judy Wood

  • Writer-Editor, Sole Proprietorship; long-term clients nationwide
  • Association for Contract Textiles (ACT); Disney Direct; Community Coffee Company; HARTMARX; MARS, Inc.; Neiman Marcus; Pier 1, Inc.; Select Comfort Corporation
  • Awards: Bronze ECHO, Direct Marketing Association; Financial World Magazine; TOPS of Southwest Gold; ADDY Gold and Best of Show; Silver Quill, International Association of Business Communicators
  • Literary analyses: published in Denver Quarterly and Notes on Mississippi Writers
  • Freelance editing/proofing team, Harcourt Brace College Publishers
  • Past President, League of Women Voters of Tarrant County
  • Texas Christian University (graduate studies); Queens University of Charlotte (BA, literature/composition); teacher certification (upper levels) in three states