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FloresDionicio "Don" Flores (2005)

Don Flores was appointed to a six-year term on The Texas State University System Board of Regents by Governor George W. Bush in March 1999.

Mr. Flores is executive vice president and editor of the El Paso Times. Before coming to El Paso, he was president and publisher of the Iowa City Press-Citizen in Iowa City. Since joining the Gannett Company in 1985, he has held editing and management positions at the Tucson Citizen in Tucson, Arizona; the New Mexican in Santa Fe, New Mexico; the Visalia Times-Delta in Visalia, California; and the Gannett West in Reno, Nevada. He was formerly an editor with the Dallas Morning News and has been an editor or reporter for the Dallas Times Herald, the Abilene Reporter-News and the San Marcos Daily Record. Mr. Flores' professional memberships include the American Society of Newspaper Associations of America and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, where he has served as director, vice president and president. He is also a member of the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications and serves on the boards of directors of Paso Del Norte Health Foundation and the El Paso United Way. Mr. Flores has been recognized by Hispanic Business Magazine as one of the 100 most influential Hispanics in the U.S.

Mr. Flores is a graduate of Southwest Texas State University.