Al Davis is the ninth director of Texas A&M Forest Service. Davis was appointed by the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents on June 1, 2023, after serving as interim director for two years.
His vision is “a great agency that is people and mission focused.”
Making his top priorities safety, employee retention, relationships, and telling our story, Davis has made great strides developing agency employees. He increased salary ranges, initiated a tuition assistance program and spear-headed competency-based education partnerships.
Davis has also led the agency in Keeping Texas Prepared – a partner-based legislative campaign – that yielded funding for wildfire and disaster response, grants to Texas fire departments and internal pay increases and vehicle and equipment purchasing.
– Al Davis
“A great agency that is people and mission focused.”
Prior to joining us, Davis was deputy agency director of the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service and was employed there since 2005. He served as director of the National Emergency Response and Recovery Training Center and was appointed to deputy agency director in 2014.
He is the immediate past chairman of the National Domestic Preparedness Consortium, co-founder and principal emeritus of the National Cyber Security Preparedness Consortium, and a former advisory board member of the National Center for Spectator Sports Safety and Security.
Prior to his time with The Texas A&M University System, he worked as a consultant with United Water and served as a chief executive of the Public School District in New Orleans. He also served in the U.S. Marine Corps and retired at the rank of colonel.
Davis earned a bachelor’s degree in marketing from Southern University and A&M College, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; a master’s degree in national resource strategy from the National Defense University, Washington, D.C.; and a master’s degree of business administration from Averett University, Danville, Virginia.