Richard E. Bartley was born in Annapolis, Maryland, on December 12, 1944. Mr. Bartley graduated from Texas Tech University with a degree in mechanical engineering in 1968 and thereafter attended South Texas College of Law where he received a Doctor of Jurisprudence Degree in 1972. Mr. Bartley was admitted to the Texas Bar in 1972 and is licensed to practice in the United States District Courts for the Southern District of Texas. Mr. Bartley is a member of the State Bar of Texas and the Greater Houston and Austin chapters of the Community Associations Institute. Mr. Bartley is a member and past chairman of the C.A.I. Legal Committee and Legislative Action Committee.

Walter E. Spears was born in Aransas Pass, Texas in 1961. He received a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Texas A&M University in 1983 and thereafter received his Doctor of Jurisprudence Degree at the University of Houston Law Center in 1986. Mr. Spears was admitted to the Texas Bar in 1988 and is also licensed to practice in the United States District Courts for the Southern District of Texas, the Eastern District of Texas as well as before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, Louisiana. Mr. Spears is a member of the State Bar of Texas, the Houston Bar Association, Real Estate, Litigation and Construction Sections, the Federal Bar Association, the Fifth Circuit Bar Association, the Community Association Institute and the Greater Houston Chapter of the Community Association Institute.

Mr. Spears is a member of the Texas A&M Association of Former Students and the Texas A&M 12th Man Foundation.

Mr. Spears is also a member of the Board of Directors of Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 261 and serves as a boys and girls youth sports coach for the Northwest Harris County YMCA.

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Christopher A. Kesler was born in Austin, Texas in 1967. After growing up in Dallas, Texas, he attended The University of California at Berkeley, where he received a Bachelors of Arts in Physics in 1990. After receiving his physics degree, Chris attended Golden Gate University, where he received his Juris Doctor, with highest honors in 1993. While in law school, Chris received American Jurisprudence Awards in Constitutional Law and Corporations and served on Law Review. During and after law school, Chris also served as an infantryman in the United States Army, National Guard. Chris is licensed to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the United States District Court for the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas, the Eastern District of Oklahoma, the District of Alabama and before the United States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. During his career, Chris has been counsel on five state supreme court decisions and fifteen reported appellate decisions. He has been appointed class counsel in several national class actions. In 2000, Chris was honored by admission into the National Registry of Who's Who in America and the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and in 2003 he was awarded an AV rating by Martindale-Hubble. Chris is a member of the State Bar of Texas and the Houston Bar Association.