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2024 CBPOA President and Directors
President- Chief Deputy Adrian Rodriguez
1st Vice-President-Danny Lorberau
2nd Vice-President-Lou Villagomez
Email: senorlou09@gmail.com
1st Senior Director-Sheriff Roy Boyd
2nd Senior Director-Chief Deputy Gary Wright
Email: gary.wright@co.refugio.tx.us
1st Junior Director-Ranger Justin Cuellar
2nd Junior Director-Sheriff Alden Southmayd
Secretary-Treasurer Charity Franco
Email: coastalbendpoa@gmail.com
Sgt.-At-Arms-Lt. Austin Tucker
Chaplain-Pastor T. Wayne Price
Chairman of the Board-Sheriff Raul "Pinky" Gonzales
Scholarship Chairman Sheriff Larry R. Busby
Email: csheriff@co.live-oak.tx.us
CBPOA Mystery History
Help Us Identify These Members From the Past
Your help is needed. Do you know any of the members in the above photo from many years ago after one of their quarterly meetings? If so, go to the "CONTACT US" page and let us know so that we can properly identify these early members of the CBPOA.
Our Beginning
The first quarterly meeting of the CBPOA was held in the Central Jury Room of the Nueces County Courthouse on November 1, 1966 and was called to order by the first CBPOA President, Franklin Painter, Supervisor with the TABC in Corpus Christi. Officers and Board of Directors elected were:
First Vice-President: Sheriff Wayne Hitt, San Patricia County Sheriff's Department
Second Vice-President: Sheriff Johnnie Mitchell, Nueces County Sheriff's Department
Secretary/Treasurer: William L. Burch, Nueces County Sheriff's Department
Sergeant-At-Arms: Texas Ranger Silwin H. Denson
Director: Sheriff Bob Reagan, Live Oak County Sheriff's Department
Director: Sgt. Ray Holub, Texas Department of Public Safety, Sinton
Director: Sheriff Jack Robinson, Bee County Sheriff's Department
Director: Chief Frank Petrova, Sinton Police Department
Director: Deputy R.M. Campbell, Kenedy County Sheriff's Department
Director: Chief Felix Turnbough, Aransas Pass Police Department
Director: Sheriff Joe Farinhunt, Aransas County Sheriff's Department
CBPOA Life Members
The Following Members of the CBPOA Are Official Life Members:
Melvin Arnold
Joseph Lyvers
Larry R. Busby
Bob C. Mayfield
H.A. Conner
J.K. McMahan
Rafael Cuellar
Pat Moore
Lee Duckworth
C.B. Owens
Bill Gibbens
Kenneth R. Poenish
Adolfo Guerrero
Joe Salinas
Rita Gunter
Dino Tamez
Robert Hewes
Lou Villagomez
D.E. Higgens Botham
Gilberto Ybanez
James D. Hodges
Robert Zenner
Robert L. Horn
Tony Trevino
Leroy Moody