Jay Kimbrough is back at the state's Juvenile Justice Department — formerly the Texas Youth Commission — tapped by Gov. Rick Perry to try again to right that troubled agency. Kimbrough has been at the Texas Department of Public Safety, where he's second in command, after losing his job at the Texas A&M University System.
Ward Farnsworth, an associate dean at Boston University School of Law, will take over as dean of the University of Texas School of Law on June 1. Farnsworth clerked for Richard Posner on the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and Anthony Kennedy on the U.S. Supreme Court. He'll replace former dean Larry Sager, who is still a professor at the law school, who was forced by UT President Bill Powers to step down last December.
Nobel Prize winner Dr. Alfred Gilman quit the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, where he was chief scientific officer, citing concerns about the way CPRIT awards grants.
After 27 years at the University of Houston System, Grover Campbell is leaving his post of vice chancellor to hang out a lobby shingle of his own. He jokes (kind-of) that he's looking for "large and underrepresented interests." He'll be with UH through the end of the month. Coming in: Darrin Hall, who has been at Houston City Hall for eight years, most recently working for Houston Mayor Annise Parker.
Jim Moore and Glenn Smith will be joining the Progress Texas PAC to help with communications. Moore, a former TV journalist, is co-author of Bush's Brain and other books; Smith, a former newspaper reporter, worked for a number of Democratic officials and candidates, including Bill Hobby, Ann Richards and Tony Sanchez.
Gov. Perry appointed:
• Lynwood Givens of Plano and Sharon Carr of Katy to the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. Givens retired from Raytheon Co., where he was chief technology officer. Carr, who's being reappointed, is a retired librarian and administrator from the El Paso ISD.
• Fredrick "Rick" Rylander of Iraan and Lewis McMahan of Dallas to the Texas Water Development Board. Rylander is a rancher and former manager with National Oilwell Varco; McMahan, who's being reappointed, is an engineer and retired vice president of Texas Instruments.