Paul Lyle – Born in Magnolia, Arkansas, in 1940, Lyle “had the good judgment, at the age of two, to move to Texas,” where he grew up in Atlanta. He attended Baylor University (B.A., 1962) and Baylor Law School (J.D., 1964). He was admitted to the State Bar of Texas in 1964. Lyle was married to his college sweetheart, the former Linda Kay Rogers, for more than forty years (until her death in 2003). Their daughter, Leah Kay Gabriel (former Miss Texas 1989), and her family live in Southlake, Texas, and their son, John Paul (also an attorney), and his family live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. After forty years of practicing law in Plainview, Texas, with Owen, Lyle, Voss, Owen & Melton, P.C., representing as many as fifty school districts at one time, Lyle retired in 2003 to devote more time to writing and publishing his school law books, The President’s Manual and Lyle’s Digest: Decisions of the Texas Commissioner of Education (the 1,000 most recent decisions of the Texas Commissioner of Education), mediating school-related controversies, and speaking at seminars, in-service programs and other school-related events.