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Caption/Information: Appointed to the Commission by Governor Rick Perry on November 10, 2003 to a six-year term which will expire on February 1, 2009. Commissioner Parker lives in Lufkin, Texas where he is President of Parker Homes with divisions in East Texas in Lufkin and West Texas in Abilene. He has been building homes throughout Texas, along with his three sons, Adam, Alex, and Arthur for twenty-one years. Commissioner Parker has served as a National Trustee and Texas State Chairman of Ducks Unlimited, past President of the Cherokee Wildlife Assn., past President of the Angelina Wildlife Assn., founding President of the Pines Gun Club in Lufkin, past President of the East Texas Retriever Club and bred many field champion Labrador Retrievers, past co-Chairman of the East Texas Quail Unlimited Chapter, and has received many honors for his work in wildlife conservation. He also is a past President of the Assn. of Deep East Texas Builders, and Area Vice-President of the Texas Association of Builders, and in January, 2004, received the Texas Association of Builders President's Award for his leadership work in helping to establish the Texas Residential Construction Commission in the 78th Texas Legislature.

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Caption/Abstract	Appointed to the Commission by Governor Rick Perry on November 10, 2003 to a six-year term which will expire on February 1, 2009. Commissioner Parker lives in Lufkin, Texas where he is President of Parker Homes with divisions in East Texas in Lufkin and West Texas in Abilene. He has been building homes throughout Texas, along with his three sons, Adam, Alex, and Arthur for twenty-one years. Commissioner Parker has served as a National Trustee and Texas State Chairman of Ducks Unlimited, past President of the Cherokee Wildlife Assn., past President of the Angelina Wildlife Assn., founding President of the Pines Gun Club in Lufkin, past President of the East Texas Retriever Club and bred many field champion Labrador Retrievers, past co-Chairman of the East Texas Quail Unlimited Chapter, and has received many honors for his work in wildlife conservation. He also is a past President of the Assn. of Deep East Texas Builders, and Area Vice-President of the Texas Association of Builders, and in January, 2004, received the Texas Association of Builders President's Award for his leadership work in helping to establish the Texas Residential Construction Commission in the 78th Texas Legislature.