Co-chair Joe Mendez, who currently serves on the Metrocrest Services Board of Directors, retired from a 35-year career at Southwest Airlines and today utilizes his extensive leadership experience and bilingual skills in his volunteer work at the Metrocrest Services’ Food Pantry. Co-chair Natalie Mendez, who spent 13 years with Southwest Airlines and today runs a coaching and leadership development practice, volunteers her expertise to help leaders and teams achieve their goals while honoring individual talents.

Co-chairs Marcus and Holly Sechrest grew up in the Carrollton area and are both graduates of Texas A&M University. They have been married 19 years and live with their five kids and many animals on their family farm in Celina, Texas. Marcus has spent much of his career in the mortgage industry, in risk and compliance, at Mr. Cooper Group in Irving, and Holly is a licensed group health insurance broker of 19 years and is a principal producer at Lone Star Benefits in Frisco. The Sechrest family supports a number of nonprofits and ministries, and they believe it is their calling to love God and to love others.

Co-chairs Mike and Linda Rutherford also grew up in Carrollton, graduating as classmates from Newman Smith High School in 1984. After marrying in 1994, they chose Carrollton as the place to make their home and raise two children together. Before Mike retired, he was a systems analyst for Tetra Pak, a global manufacturer of aseptic food packaging. Linda works for Southwest Airlines and currently serves the company as its chief administration officer. Both enjoy volunteering and giving back and have been active in community grow and share gardens, CFBISD and LISD’s educational foundation boards, and local and national civic and charitable board service. They were honored to give a named gift to Metrocrest Services during its capital campaign for its new facility. Linda currently serves on the Metrocrest Services Advisory Council.