School Board | Huntington-Surrey School

JOHNI WALKER-LITTLE, a native Texan, has enjoyed working in the community as an Education Professional for over 33 years. Johni began teaching in 1986 at The Defence Language Institute at Lackland Airforce base, teaching specialized English to foreign Military officers. She would go on to teach English and Composition at Huntington Surrey High School and eventually become Co-Director, Johni’s leadership contributed to the reputation of Huntington Surrey as being a school with the highest academic standards as well as excellent college acceptance.

Her greatest accomplishments have come from observing, guiding, and participating in the growth of her students, whether they be a foreign military officer learning specialized English, or the student successfully navigating through the murky labyrinth of high school and the college admission system. She believes a key to this is communication and collaboration with the student and parent to ensure that all have a clear path to success. Johni holds the following degrees from the University of Texas in Austin:

Bachelor of Arts, December 1970
Masters of Arts, December 1985

SHARON SMITH WEBER is an architect and technical leader in the Ecosystems Services organization of VMware, Inc. Since 2007 she has served as the principal architect for server and cloud management certification programs and for the development of tools and infrastructure to facilitate both cloud based and hardware certification testing. In addition to her industrial experience, Sharon has over 15 years in various areas of software research including the development of high-performance distributed scheduling software, climate modelling applications, software performance analysis tools, and performance of virtualization software.

Sharon holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder and has held academic positions at the University of California at Berkeley, the Center for Advanced Scientific Computation (CERFACS) in Toulouse, France, and St. Edward’s University in Austin, TX, as well as industrial research positions at Digital Equipment Corporation and Compaq Computer Corporation in Palo Alto, CA. Sharon currently serves on advisory boards at the University of Texas at San Antonio and at St. Edward’s University.

DR. LYNN KATZ is a Professor at UT-Austin. She holds the Hussein M. Alharthy Centennial Chair in Civil Engineering and the Bettie Margaret Smith Professorship in Engineering in the Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering. She is also the director of the Cockrell School's Center for Water and the Environment.

Her teaching interests include aquatic chemistry, surface and interfacial phenomena, physicochemical treatment processes for water and wastewater and biological wastewater treatment.

Her research has focused on the fate and transport of contaminants in natural and engineered systems. Specific research interests include the physicochemical processes which control the rate and extent of partitioning of organic and inorganic contaminants to soils and sediments, evaluation of physicochemical and integrated biological/physicochemical processes for removal of contaminants from water and wastewater, and elucidation of reaction mechanisms at mineral/water interfaces.

Dr. Katz is also a recipient of the 2009 WEP Advocate Award. She holds the following degrees:

The Johns Hopkins University, Environmental Engineering, B.E.S., 1980
University of Michigan, Environmental Engineering, M.S.E., 1984
University of Michigan, Chemistry, M.S., 1990
University of Michigan, Environmental Engineering, Ph.D., 1993