Kristen Lindley

Member, UH System Board of Regents
Bachelor of Business Administration ('09)

University of Houston-Victoria student Kristen Lindley* was appointed to the UH System Board of Regents in 2009 by Governor Rick Perry and will serve through May 31, 2010.   She will serve as a member of the Academic and Student Success Committee and the Facilities, Construction and Master Planning Committee for FY2010.

She recently graduated magna cum laude from UH-Victoria with a bachelor's degree in accounting and is working on a master's of business administration.  She is also working part-time in the university's Administration and Finance Office and has an audit internship with Grant Thornton in Houston.

Lindley, who was born in Austin, attended Klein Collins High School in Spring, from where she graduated in 2005. 

Lindley was the 2008-2009 UH-Victoria Student Senate President and a member of Gamma Beta Phi; the President's Climate Control Committee; and the Association of Independent Institutions Softball Player of the Year as well as making the NAIA All-American Team.  She is also a volunteer middle school math mentor for Help One Student to Succeed; and Co-captain of the softball team.

* Lindley is part of a group of students appointed by the Texas Governor to serve on their respective university system governing boards. These students have the same powers and duties as regents, but do not vote or are considered part of a quorum. The first such appointees served from 2006 to 2007. Prior to this, student regents were elected by their peers.