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Executive Director

Steve Brooks

Steve Brooks is the executive director of Arlington’s Advocates for Special People, an organization that helps intellectually disabled adults.

He started on the board in 2007 and became ASP Board President in 2011.  In 2014, he began serving as the executive director and continues to this day. This selfless leader will be the first to tell you that this organization is going places, and that it is the communities support and the volunteers that help this organization to thrive.

Board of Directors

Officers

  • Mike Love, President​ – Retired Elder | United Methodist Church
  • Robert Blake,Vice President – Director | Bit by Bit Computer Consultants 
  • Sally Powers, Secretary – Retired Special Education Teacher | Arlington ISD
  • Ryan Estrada, Treasurer – Audit Senior Manager | Scott, Singleton, Fincher & Co., PC
  • Susie McAlister, Member at Large – Community Volunteer

Directors

  • Juliet Bran, Retired | Community Voluntee
  • Sheila Brock, Retired | Community Volunteer
  • Linda Crosby, Retired | Community Volunteer
  • Brett Gow, Local Business Owner
  • Nikkie Hunter
  • Lisa Jamieson, Attorney | Shareholder | Bourland, Wall & Wenzel, P.C.
  • David Lessner, Senior Pastor, FUMC Arlington
  • Sandy Lester, Retired, Arlington ISD | Community Volunteer
  • Julie Neal, Local Business Owner| Former Board Member of Family Rock
  • Lisa Neslony, Senior Pastor | St. John the Apostle United Methodist Church
  • Carolyn Peterson, Special Education Teacher, Arlington ISD
  • Rolando Ramirez, Stationery Engineer | Lockheed-Martin
  • William “Pistol” Robinson, Senior Pastor | St. Stephen UMC
  • Cynthia Smitherman, Research Project Manager | Weill Cornell Medicine
  • Brandie Spletzer, Senior Pastor | Epworth UMC
  • Deborah Stokes, Retired | Parent of Intellectually Disabled Adult
  • Kristin Warthen, Senior Pastor | St. Andrews UMC, Arlington
  • Chris Wood, Web Developer, UT Arlington / HandsomeWeb

Honorary Directors

  • Bobbie Andress – Community Volunteer

Want to get in contact with our board for a specific need, request or question? Please email us at board@advocatessp.org. We would love to hear from you. Thank you.