Eric Hogue, Community Leader
Published author,
speaker
and community leader, Eric Hogue, was elected as the 45th Mayor of
Wylie, Texas on May 10, 2008. Previously, Hogue had served the City of Wylie as
a member of the City Council, as Chairman of the Wylie Planning and Zoning
Commission and as a member of the Construction Code Board.
Hogue serves as the legislative
head of the city's municipal government. The community is currently recognized
as the eighth
fastest growing city in the United States of America according to a study by the Gadberry Group. The mayor oversees an annual budget of over 100 million dollars.
As the mayor of
Wylie, Eric automatically becomes Chairman of the Birmingham Land Trust, a 70 year old non-profit organization that has donated over 10 million dollars to the
Wylie Independent School District.
Mayor Hogue
also serves as a Board member of LifePath Systems, Collin County’s Mental Health
Center; Chairman of the Wylie Parks and Recreation 4B Board; as a member of the
City of Wylie and Wylie ISD sub-committee board; an honorary board member of the
Children’s Chorus of Collin County, Texas and was recently appointed by
the Governor to the Board of the Texas School for the Deaf.
Eric Hogue, Speaker
Each
year, Eric Hogue speaks to businesses, communities, chamber of commerce's,
non-profit organizations, schools and a number of other groups about leadership,
team building and how people can take action in their lives and in their communities. His belief is that life is too short not to try and accomplish all
you can in the time that God has given each of us.
Eric's over-all belief is that
there are those who read about history, and there are others who make history.
When his time here on this earth is over, he wants to be one of those people who
made history.
Please contact us, if you would like Mayor Hogue to speak to your organization.
Eric Hogue, Author
Each year the mayor works with school districts, teachers, librarians and
students to encourage reading, the importance of a college education and the
duties of our local government at the
elementary school level.
Clinky the clown was a character Hogue created more than
twenty-nine years ago. When he
began to work on his first book, Eric decided to use characters that had
become a part of his own life. The mayor also wanted a way in which Clinky The
Clown could live on, and so you'll now find him within the pages of Hogue's books.
He also wanted to
build characters in a way that children could relate and learn from them.
Mayor Hogue is now currently working on the second book in the series of books about Clinky The Clown. This time Clinky
will be in the third grade with another mystery to solve and another lesson to
be learned, so please stay tuned and keep reading!
