Austin ISD's 2026 Retirement Celebration
We are excited to express our heartfelt gratitude and admiration to all of our esteemed colleagues retiring this year. Our incredible journey here at Austin Independent School District is continually shaped and driven by the dedicated people who serve our district, students, and community.
Thank you for your many years of dedication, service, and care. You have not only shaped the Austin ISD of today but have also helped set the course for its future. We wish each of you joy, relaxation, and fulfillment in your well-deserved retirement. Your extraordinary service will always be remembered, and we know your influence will continue to be felt for many generations to come.
Congratulations on your retirement! This is your time to celebrate the wonderful career you've had with us, and we are delighted to celebrate with you.
2025–26 Retirees
276 retirees with 5,531 combined years of service.
A huge congratulations, thank you, and best wishes for the next adventure to our 2025–26 AISD Retirees!
| Name | Campus/Department | Years with AISD |
|---|---|---|
| Gloria Williams | Student Support | 50 |
| Cheryl-Lyn Gibson | Zavala EL | 45 |
| Clayton Lefner | Service Center Bldg & Grounds | 42 |
| Imelda Acosta | Dawson EL | 41 |
| Vadelia Perry | Dawson EL | 41 |
| Deanna Susong | Bryker Woods EL | 40 |
| Nancy Searle | McCallum H S | 37 |
| Jose Cazares | Service Center Bldg & Grounds | 37 |
| Jo Ann Rodriguez | Transportation | 37 |
| Debrah Davis | Transportation | 37 |
| Lynn Pool | Athletics | 36 |
| David Egli | Crockett Early College | 36 |
| Zoila Benford | Food Service | 36 |
| Sandra Brown | Ortega EL | 36 |
| Leticia Gonzales-Reynolds | Paredes Middle | 36 |
| Patricia Jones | Wooldridge EL | 36 |
| Maria Rodriguez | Blazier Primary | 35 |
| Jennifer Graf | Ortega EL | 35 |
| Ernestine Haney | Transportation | 35 |
| Samantha Hill | Zavala EL | 35 |
| Maria Ortega | Service Center Bldg & Grounds | 34 |
| Delia Rivera | Widen EL | 34 |
| Nicole Sorto | McCallum H S | 33 |
| Gonzalo Arredondo | Service Center Bldg & Grounds | 33 |
| Janie Trevino | Langford EL | 32 |
| William Taylor | Service Center Bldg & Grounds | 32 |
| Jon Eggleston | Technology | 32 |
| Brenda Rodriguez | Travis Early College H | 32 |
| Karen Mccumber | Zilker EL | 32 |
| Carla Scott | Finance | 31 |
| Elizabeth Sepulveda | Linder EL | 31 |
| Cynthia Carroll | Bowie H S | 30 |
| Kowsillia Cavallaro | Clayton EL | 30 |
| Lance Cox | District Police | 30 |
| Patricia Stone | Doss EL | 30 |
| Bonnie Singerman | Doss EL | 30 |
| Patricia Aros | Food Service | 30 |
| Lisa Yanez | Food Service | 30 |
| Jennifer Moore | Hill EL | 30 |
| Trena Busari | Transportation | 30 |
| Patricia Swanson | Winn Montessori | 30 |
| Kerri Ault | Austin H S | 29 |
| John Adams | Bailey Middle | 29 |
| Mary Rodriguez | Finance | 29 |
| Cordelia Coronado | Food Service | 29 |
| Amanda Adams | Houston EL | 29 |
| Christine Cluchey | Paredes Middle | 29 |
| Tamara Smith | Rosedale | 29 |
| Samantha Sustaita | Small Middle | 29 |
| Theresa Melomo | Widen EL | 29 |
| Carolyn Hanschen | Accountability & Assessment | 28 |
| Melissa Gutierrez | Akins H S | 28 |
| Susan Bell | Assoc Sup-Elem | 28 |
| Pamela Quackenbush | Austin H S | 28 |
| Lorie Henry | Crockett Early College | 28 |
| Brenda Martinez | Information | 28 |
| Sarah Morgan | Kealing Middle | 28 |
| Daniel Fuentes | McCallum H S | 28 |
| Melissa Cooper | Murchison Middle | 28 |
| Elsa Renderos | Service Center Bldg & Grounds | 28 |
| James Maldonado | Service Center Bldg & Grounds | 28 |
| Rebecca Allen | System Wide Testing | 28 |
| Yolanda Easley | Transportation | 28 |
| Martha Abundis | Anderson H S | 27 |
| Jennifer Pace | Assoc Sup-Elem | 27 |
| Dora Keaton | Bailey Middle | 27 |
| Jacqueline Swenson | Bailey Middle | 27 |
| Dolores Godinez | Dawson EL | 27 |
| Dolores Aviles | Food Service | 27 |
| Tony Moya | Food Service | 27 |
| Martha Leon | Kocurek EL | 27 |
| William Cauthern | McCallum H S | 27 |
| Linda Von Hatten | Odom EL | 27 |
| Andrea Williams | Pecan Springs EL | 27 |
| Rosa Esparza | Service Center Bldg & Grounds | 27 |
| Jennifer Watts | Summitt EL | 27 |
| Eddie Harris | Brentwood EL | 26 |
| Tina Montgomery | Finance | 26 |
| Melissa Prepster | Gorzycki Middle | 26 |
| Lisa Mielke | Gorzycki Middle | 26 |
| Maria Ayala | Hart EL | 26 |
| Kelli Kirk | Maplewood EL | 26 |
| Jeffrey Seckar-Martinez | Navarro Early College | 26 |
| Martha Bartz | Paredes Middle | 26 |
| Cheryl White | Perez EL | 26 |
| Carmen Lugo | Service Center Bldg & Grounds | 26 |
| Andrea Levine | Small Middle | 26 |
| Sylvia Gonzales | System Wide Testing | 26 |
| Martha Ralston | Travis Early College H | 26 |
| Brenda Dalton | Contract & | 25 |
| Maria Castro | Food Service | 25 |
| Norma Bautista | Food Service | 25 |
| Nelson Aguilar | Houston EL | 25 |
| Melissa Seaton | Murchison Middle | 25 |
| Sherri Beard-Maag | Rodriguez EL | 25 |
| Gloria Montoya | Service Center Bldg & Grounds | 25 |
| Arthur Lung | STEM | 25 |
| Rogelio Rivas | Technology | 25 |
| Jacqueline Martinez | Blazier Primary | 24 |
| Lisa Perez | Burnet Middle | 24 |
| Rebecca Corona-Quiterio | Food Service | 24 |
| Delta Caballero | Langford EL | 24 |
| Richard Salazar | McCallum H S | 24 |
| Janet Beasley | Odom EL | 24 |
| Corina Garcia | Odom EL | 24 |
| Eduardo Sanhueza-Lyon | Sanchez EL | 24 |
| Eladio Tonche | Service Center Bldg & Grounds | 24 |
| Charles Davis | Service Center Bldg & Grounds | 24 |
| Amy Cox | Special Education | 24 |
| Maria Molina | Allison EL | 23 |
| Victoria Gutierrez | Cunningham EL | 23 |
| Alex Phillips | District Police | 23 |
| Alan Moehn | Finance | 23 |
| Sandra Amaro | Information | 23 |
| Dolores Witkowski | Lively Middle | 23 |
| Brenda Merriman | Murchison Middle | 23 |
| Karen Ciesla | O Henry Middle | 23 |
| Pete Gallegos | Service Center Bldg & Grounds | 23 |
| Arturo Melgoza | Service Center Bldg & Grounds | 23 |
| Christopher Brooks | Small Middle | 23 |
| Anna Aguallo | Special Education | 23 |
| Pamela Mckinney | Student Support | 23 |
| Lydia Garcia | Assoc Sup-Elem | 22 |
| Carroll Libbon | Baranoff EL | 22 |
| Dora Ramirez | Food Service | 22 |
| Dorcas Seals | Jordan EL | 22 |
| Perla Chavez | Perez EL | 22 |
| Carmen Canales | Rodriguez EL | 22 |
| Martin Vasquez | Service Center Bldg & Grounds | 22 |
| Pedro Murillo | Wooten EL | 22 |
| Maura Andrade | Food Service | 21 |
| Amy Fuller | Gorzycki Middle | 21 |
| Melissa McDaniel | Gorzycki Middle | 21 |
| Suzanne Plyler | Mathews EL | 21 |
| Laurie Henderson | Murchison Middle | 21 |
| Graciela Esquivel | Padron EL | 21 |
| Veronica Bustamante | Service Center Bldg & Grounds | 21 |
| Angelina Medrano | Service Center Bldg & Grounds | 21 |
| Raul Romero | Service Center Bldg & Grounds | 21 |
| Alfred Williamson | Service Center Bldg & Grounds | 21 |
| Ruth Valdez | St Elmo EL | 21 |
| Meredith Siler | Talent Strategy | 21 |
| Reginald Bigham | Technology | 21 |
| Maria Mejia | Transportation | 21 |
| Charles Williams | Transportation | 21 |
| Andre Williams | Transportation | 21 |
| Norman Nunn | Anderson H S | 20 |
| Brittney Nobles | Blanton EL | 20 |
| Dawn Doga | Bryker Woods EL | 20 |
| Maureen Pandola | Clayton EL | 20 |
| Maureen Hesprich | Food Service | 20 |
| Sonia Espinoza | Food Service | 20 |
| Barbara Clark | Hill EL | 20 |
| Linda Buono | Kocurek EL | 20 |
| Mary Solis | LBJ Early College H S | 20 |
| Rachel Larsen | Lee EL | 20 |
| Van Savage | Northeast Early | 20 |
| Ernest Torres | Service Center Bldg & Grounds | 20 |
| Benita Gonzales | Service Center Bldg & Grounds | 20 |
| Juan Diaz | Student Support | 20 |
| Sandra Lankford | Transportation | 20 |
| Michael Zardiackas | District Police | 19 |
| Bonnie Lang | Doss EL | 19 |
| Loan Nguyen | Food Service | 19 |
| David Levee | Humanities | 19 |
| James Phares | Information | 19 |
| Sylvia Corwin | Langford EL | 19 |
| Sharryl Mitchell | Norman-Sims EL | 19 |
| Maria Guzman | Service Center Bldg & Grounds | 19 |
| Martha Franco De Carrasco | Service Center Bldg & Grounds | 19 |
| Vidal Aviles | Service Center Bldg & Grounds | 19 |
| Algie Williams | Student Support | 19 |
| Joann Freeman | Transportation | 19 |
| Antonio Martinez | Allison EL | 18 |
| Rosemary Miranda | Allison EL | 18 |
| Oralia Jaimes Villa | Food Service | 18 |
| Michele Meadows | Hill EL | 18 |
| Esther Dominguez | Kealing Middle | 18 |
| Maria De Liendo | Service Center Bldg & Grounds | 18 |
| Elizabeth Rivera | Service Center Bldg & Grounds | 18 |
| Cristabel Acevedo | Service Center Bldg & Grounds | 18 |
| Peter Nunziato | Bailey Middle | 17 |
| Amy Turnage | Clayton EL | 17 |
| Teresa Duran | Service Center Bldg & Grounds | 17 |
| Augustine Estrada | Service Center Bldg & Grounds | 17 |
| Andrew Jones | Technology | 17 |
| Ann Kestner | Lamar Middle | 16 |
| Esperanza Suarez | Overton EL | 16 |
| Ramon Vega | Special Education | 16 |
| Suzanne Skalaban | Summitt EL | 16 |
| Darla Caughey | Talent Dev & Talent | 16 |
| Rose Batson | Transportation | 16 |
| Deborah Hanson | Leadership Academy | 15 |
| Susan Jetton | Mills EL | 15 |
| Abel Najera | Transportation | 15 |
| Edna Romero | Wooten EL | 15 |
| Dana Nafey | Joslin EL | 14 |
| Juanita Flores Smith | Kealing Middle | 14 |
| Feliciano Molina | Service Center Bldg & Grounds | 14 |
| Grace Smith | Transportation | 14 |
| Rose Miller | Barrington EL | 13 |
| Lesa Khan | Campbell EL | 13 |
| Elvia Aguilar | Food Service | 13 |
| Robert Chin | Lasa H S | 13 |
| Lydia Palace | McCallum H S | 13 |
| Diona Williams | Transportation | 13 |
| Joan Printy | Transportation | 13 |
| Armando Jaramillo | Chief Of Operations | 12 |
| Michelle Scruggs | Martin Middle | 12 |
| Anita Sigler | Pickle EL | 12 |
| Graciella Hadrous | Secondary Academics | 12 |
| Louis Zachary | Service Center Bldg & Grounds | 12 |
| Maria Knight | Transportation | 12 |
| Luis Guerrero-Cardenas | Transportation | 12 |
| Donna Kilpatrick | Kiker EL | 11 |
| Ann Boyd | Lamar Middle | 11 |
| Maria Gan | Overton EL | 11 |
| Donna McClung | Summitt EL | 11 |
| Joseph Walding | Bowie H S | 10 |
| Jahna Bobolia | Clayton EL | 10 |
| Kathryn Genet | Construction | 10 |
| Orlando Rodriguez | District Police | 10 |
| Eileen Vasquez | Kiker EL | 10 |
| Sandra Woodrow | Lasa H S | 10 |
| Marfelia Mondragon | Service Center Bldg & Grounds | 10 |
| Alice Scott | Transportation | 10 |
| Juvenal Landeros | Transportation | 10 |
| Carol Hammer | Covington Middle | 9 |
| Deborah Simmons | Kocurek EL | 9 |
| Rachel Whatley | McCallum H S | 9 |
| Kristin Wilson | O Henry Middle | 9 |
| Gloria Soto | Blackshear EL | 8 |
| Mark Robinson | Bowie H S | 8 |
| Joanne Priest | Lamar Middle | 8 |
| James Ockleberry | Lasa H S | 8 |
| Stacy Roddy | Rosedale | 8 |
| Adriana Garcia | Andrews EL | 7 |
| Irene Ochoa Infante | Covington Middle | 7 |
| Odilia Nolasco | Food Service | 7 |
| Mirtilina Porras | Graham EL | 7 |
| Joyce Dolan-Goodman | Sadler Means YWLA | 7 |
| Maria Tobias De Lara | Service Center Bldg & Grounds | 7 |
| Carlos Pineda Perez | Service Center Bldg & Grounds | 6 |
| Teresita Maisonet Menendez | St Elmo EL | 6 |
| Don Cyphers | Transportation | 6 |
| Kerry Lewis | Akins H S | 5 |
| Modesta Reyes | Food Service | 5 |
| Cedrek Petteway | Garcia YMLA | 5 |
| Carlos Manzanero | Allison EL | 4 |
| Maureen Holloway | Anderson H S | 4 |
| Rogelio Magana | Blazier EL | 4 |
| Gary Robinson | Central Warehouse | 4 |
| Lenicia Longe | Galindo EL | 4 |
| David Guerra | Martin Middle | 4 |
| Rosalinda Garcia | Palm EL | 4 |
| Susan Diaz | Secondary Academics | 4 |
| Jeanette Timco | Anderson H S | 3 |
| Jan Lubow | Burnet Middle | 3 |
| Belinda Guajardo-Garcia | Graham EL | 3 |
| Rosalinda Bandin | O Henry Middle | 3 |
| Emily Cunningham | Palm EL | 3 |
| Martina Mendez | Rodriguez EL | 3 |
| Lizeth Gavidia de Villegas | Transportation | 3 |
| Sarah Stahala | Akins H S | 2 |
| Denise Morales | Anderson H S | 2 |
| Armando Flores | Crockett Early College | 2 |
| Jennifer Dunn | Dobie Middle | 2 |
| Nikki Dickerson | Lively Middle | 2 |
| Kristin Curtis | Rosedale | 2 |
| Tricia Moore | Uphaus Early | 2 |
| Ana Saravia Galvan | Navarro Early College | 1 |
| Leslie Mendez | Padron EL | 1 |
| Ellen Brogdon | Special Education | 1 |
| Mark Weber | Lively Middle | 1 |