At their January meeting, the TSET Board of Directors re-elected Dr. Bruce Benjamin as Chair and Michelle Stephens as Vice-Chair. Each board officer term is one year, and it will be Benjamin’s and Stephens’ second year serving in their respective roles. Benjamin, appointed by the House Speaker, is the Vice Provost for Graduate programs, interim vice president for research and associate professor of physiology at Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences. He is a member of the American Physiological Society and the Oklahoma Physiological Society. Stephens, appointed by the Governor, is an attorney who previously served on the Oklahoma Commission for Human Services, State Board of Education and State CareerTech Board.
Stephens has been a practicing attorney since 1992, serving as an Assistant Attorney General under Susan Loving and Drew Edmondson. Stephens is a member of the Board of Trustees for Oklahoma Christian University and a member of the State 4-H Horse Council.
She was a member of the Oklahoma 4-H Volunteer Council and served on the Weatherford School Board for 11 years.