LCC President and Administration
In the summer of 2007, Juan Maldonado (born 1948), who holds a Ph.D. from Texas Woman's University in Denton, formerly the executive vice president, succeeded Ramon H. Dovalina as the LCC president. A graduate of the Community College Leadership Program at the University of Texas at Austin, Dovalina had served as LCC president since 1995. In September 2010, Maldonado received a contract extension, salary increase, performance bonus, and a $5,000 contribution to his tax-sheltered annuity retirement fund. His pay through August 2013 was set at $163,211 per year.
Former LCC faculty member Jesse Porras is the newest trustee, having run unopposed in the board election held on November 2, 2010. The current trustee president is Cynthia Mares, who in the 1980s as Cynthia M. Jackson had been the secretary to former LCC president Roger L. Worsley, now of Camden, Arkansas.
On September 28, 2007, the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of LCC, Dovalina and his predecessor, Roger Worsley, were bestowed president-emeritus status. At the ceremony, trustee Carlos Carranco, Jr., of Laredo, himself a former LJC student, told the Laredo Morning Times that the institution "from very humble beginnings has evolved to serve the needs of the community."
Each year LCC presents the "President's Beacon Award" to a civic figure whose contributions have led to the advancement of the community. The 2012 winners are businessman Steve LaMantia of Laredo and his wife, Linda. LaMantia is a founder of the South Texas Academic Rising Scholars program, which has assisted more than six thousand students in pursuit of higher education.
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