Released on = November 21, 2006, 11:17 am

Press Release Author = Thompson & Knight LLP

Industry = Law

Press Release Summary = Thompson & Knight is pleased to announce that Victor Alcorta
III has been elected President of the Texas State History Museum Foundation. His
term begins January 2007.

Press Release Body = Thompson & Knight is pleased to announce that Victor Alcorta
III has been elected President of the Texas State History Museum Foundation. His
term begins January 2007.

Mr. Alcorta has served on the Texas State History Museum Foundation statewide Board
of Trustees since 2003, the Executive Committee since 2005, and currently serves on
the Executive Committee as President-Elect.

Mr. Alcorta is a partner in the Government Relations practice group in the Firm's
Austin office. He focuses his practice on government relations and public policy,
legislative advocacy, administrative law, and campaign finance law. Mr. Alcorta
represents clients before government agencies and the state legislature and has
extensive experience in areas including environmental regulation, state taxation,
transportation, insurance, technology, energy, border affairs, civil justice, and
natural resources.

The Texas State History Museum Foundation is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization
that was founded in 1999 to support the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum. The
Foundation focuses its efforts on raising funding for the Museum's educational
programs in an effort to help make its over 100 free educational programs available
to more Texans statewide. Since its opening in 2001, the Texas State History Museum
has presented the story of Texas to over 3 million visitors, including 100,000
school children each year.

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