Officers

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.