Texas Governor Rick Perry has nominated Dora Rivas, division manager of the Dallas ISD Food & Child Nutrition Services Dept., to the Texas Diabetes Council, which assists in the development and implementation of a public awareness strategy focusing on diabetes and its complications. The nomination is subject to confirmation by the state senate. Rivas is a member of the Texas Dietetic Association and the North Texas School Food Service Directors’ Associations, as well as a member of the Dallas Dietetic Association, the Texas Association for School Nutrition and the Department of State Health Services’ Texas School Health Advisory committee. She was recently elected to be vice president of the School Nutrition Association, and served on the interim study committee on nutrition and health in public schools.
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