Welcome Susana Rabel, Texas State Board Chair

Susana earned her bachelor of arts from Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia, and her juris doctor from Southern Methodist University in Dallas. While studying English, economics, business, and communications at Randolph-Macon, she was accepted into both the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society and the Delta Kappa national leadership and honor society. Susana's law school achievements include serving as assistant editor for the SMU Law Review Association. She would return to the academic setting years later as an adjunct professor at Dallas’ Richland Community College.

Susana's professional history includes tenures at the Dallas law firms of Haynes and Boone, LLP, and Rabel Law, PC. She also provided legal counsel for the national health club franchise Gold's Gym. Ms. McNutt was admitted to the State Bar of Texas in 1999. Her professional outreach includes affiliations with the nonprofit financial advisement organization Dallas Social Venture Partners and the regional leadership training programs Leadership Dallas and Leadership Texas.