president
Susie L. Hoeller
Susie L. Hoeller, President and Co-Founder of
AMCIPS, is an international business attorney with over thirty years
experience. She has represented companies in the banking, employee
benefit, high technology, and retail business sectors. She
was previously a partner at a prominent Texas law firm. Along with
handling her duties as President of AMCIPS, Susie heads up the Hoeller
Law Firm which has a practice focusing on food safety, product safety
and international contracting and compliance, as well as training module
consulting.
Ms. Hoeller has been recognized by bar associations and legal
publications for her pro bono legal work on behalf of refugees, overseas
war victims seeking medical treatment in the U.S. and victims of human
trafficking and abused mail order brides. She traveled to Bosnia and
other Eastern European countries in connection with her refugee work.
Ms. Hoeller has published legal articles and been a speaker at legal and
public policy conferences in the U.S. and Canada. She has been an
instructor and guest lecturer at colleges and universities and a guest
on national and local TV and radio programs discussing a wide range of
legal and international policy issues.
Ms. Hoeller is currently an outside director of corporate and non-profit
organizations, has received leadership awards and has served on a Board
of Directors appointed Ethics Committee for a Fortune 100 company.
Ms. Hoeller received her law degree from Vanderbilt University in
Nashville, Tennessee and her B.A. cum laude, in history and government
from Colby College in Waterville, Maine. She was born in Chicago,
Illinois and was raised in Baie D’Urfe´, Quebec, Canada.
Ms. Hoeller was also a pioneer in opening up new opportunities for girls
and women in sports in the 1960s and 1970s. She was one of the first
girls to play on a boy’s hockey team in Canada; started the women’s
hockey team at Colby College; won the Quebec Junior Sailing
Championship, when she was the only girl in the regatta; and was a
student leader at Vanderbilt University, who championed more access to
college athletic facilities and programs for women.
Vice president
Colonel Joe Henderson (Ret.) United States Air Force
While in the service of the United States Air Force, Col. Henderson's
primary focus was in the area of Logistics and Aircraft Maintenance. His
duties included stations in Egypt, Viet Nam, Laos, Singapore, Enewetak
Atoll, and Germany, as well as numerous other duty locations overseas and
the US, including the Air Staff in the Pentagon. He is a past Director of
Continuing Education for Grayson County College and was also an instructor
in Manufacturing Technology and Corporate Problem Solving.
Col. Henderson has authored numerous military writings and historical
references and has served as Director of International Service for the
Rotary Club, as well as President of the local chapter. He has been
selected to be the Rotary Group Study Exchange Team Leader to South Africa
and Namibia. The team's focus will be AIDS/HIV awareness and water well
development projects. Colonel Henderson's training and educational
background includes degrees from the University of North Texas, University
of Southern California, and Grayson College. His doctoral studies were
taken at Texas A&M. He is also a graduate of the United States Air Force
War College. Other achievements include certification as a Professional
Logistician and Achieve Global Facilitator.
His additional certification as a Professional Building Contractor, as
well as an Associate of Applied Science Degree in Viticulture & Enology,
provides the Center with professional support in the area of sustainable
development goals. His skill as an educator will assist the Center in
meeting AMCIPS goals of providing educational services to immigrants and
facilitate opportunities provided to women of developing nations.
Presently he is the AMCIPS Vice president and Chairman of the Board of
Advisors.