Austin Founder Lions Club
Texas Water Law
Charles Porter
October 6, 2016
Introduced by Lion Jesse Moore
Charles Porter is an award winning author, speaker, testifying real estate expert, and a full time Visiting Professor in the College of Education at St. Edward’s University. He also serves on the Advisory Council of the Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas. His newest book Sharing the Common Pool: Water Rights in the Everyday Lives of Texans (Texas A & M Press, 2014) is in the bookstores now.
He is also the author of Spanish Water/Anglo Water (Texas A & M Press, 2009) winner of the 2011 San Antonio Conservation Society Publication Award and the 2011 Texas Old Missions and Forts Restoration Association Book Award for outstanding published book contributing to a better understanding of Spanish Colonial Texas. He won The Texas Catholic Historical Society’s Catholic Southwest Journal of History and Culture 2009 Robert S. Weddle Award for the article “Querétaro in Focus: The Franciscan Missionary Colleges and the Texas Missions.” He won The East Texas Historical Association’s East Texas Historical Journal’s 2013 Chamberlain Award for the article “The History of W. A. East v. Houston and Texas Central Railway Company, 1904: Establishment of the Rule of Capture in Texas Water Law or ‘He Who Has the Biggest Pump Gets the Water’.”
His teaching awards at St. Edward’s University include the 2013 Hudspeth Award for Innovative Teaching, the 2011 St. Edward’s University Outstanding Adjunct Faculty Award, and the 2011 Best Adjunct Professor of the Schools of Behavioral and Social Sciences and University Programs. Additionally Porter was a 2008 Presidential Award Winner at St. Edward’s. He was awarded the Peacemaker Award by the Austin Dispute Resolution Center in 2007. He was elected and served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Austin Board of Realtors in 2007.
For further information please visit www.charlesporter.com. 512-627-3793 crporter@sbcglobal.net
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