Beto Receives Leadership Award
Dan Richard Beto, executive director of the SHSU Correctional Management
Institute of Texas, was presented the George M. Keiser Award for Exceptional
Leadership during the National Association of Probation Executives’ Annual
Awards Breakfast on Aug. 24.
“It is an honor, especially to receive an award named after George Keiser,
who is a true servant leader,” Beto said.
Beto served as the association’s president from 2000-2002 and was recognized “for
his untiring work on behalf of the profession, for providing meaningful training
and technical assistance to probation practitioners, for his outreach to other
countries and for his leadership role on the Manhattan Institute’s Reinventing
Probation Council” by Gerald R. Hinzman, a member of the association’s
board of directors and an Iowa Community Corrections Improvement Association
board member.
“(Beto is) a quiet leader who does not seek out the limelight, yet one
who should be recognized for all he has done behind the scenes,” Hinzman
said. “Dan is known as a practitioner, teacher, writer, mentor, researcher
and leader, and he is respected for his intellect, experience, high standards
and work ethic.”
The award is named in honor of George M. Keiser, chief of the community corrections
division of the National Institute of Corrections, who, prior to joining the
Justice Department, had recorded a distinguished corrections career in Iowa and
was one of the authors of the Iowa Community Corrections Act.
Keiser, who was present at the awards ceremony, said that the selection of Beto
as recipient was “well deserved.”
Prior to assuming his current position in 1994, Beto devoted over a quarter of
a century to the probation profession, serving as a federal and juvenile probation
officer, as well as having served as chief probation officer in two Texas jurisdictions.
Founded in 1981, the association is a professional organization representing
the chief executive officers of local, county and state adult and juvenile probation
agencies. The organization conducts training sessions, provides technical assistance,
analyzes the relevant research relating to probation practices, collects and
disseminates information and serves as the national network for probation executives.
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SHSU Media Contact: Jennifer Gauntt
Sept. 3, 2003
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