George
A. Ebert was appointed the interim director for the
Office of Civil Rights (OCR)
on September 1, 2009. He also serves as director of the
Human Resources Division.
Ebert joined TxDOT in 2004 as a special projects coordinator in the
Houston District at the conclusion of a five-year assignment as
commander of the 433rd Mission Support Group (USAFR), Lackland AFB in
San Antonio. He was promoted to his previous position as the assistant
director of administration in 2007.
A veteran of nearly fifteen years of Texas state service, he began as the Training and Staff Development Program manager for the Texas Youth Commission. After leaving the Youth Commission, he entered the private sector where he worked as the director of human resources and later as the associate administrator for the San Marcos Treatment Center before returning to state service with the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (lth Science Center at Houston (UTHSC-H).
As the associate administrator for clinical programs, he directed all non-medical clinical programs as well as the training and human resources activities of the UT-managed Harris County Psychiatric Center. He also served as the hospital's legislative liaison and was responsible for all accreditations. At the invitation of the university's executive vice president, he assumed leadership of the UTHSC-H budget, payroll and personnel systems reengineering initiative.
In 1999, after nearly twenty years in the Air Force Reserve, he was promoted to the rank of colonel and was offered command of the 433rd Mission Support Group. He served in that capacity full-time until his retirement in 2004.
Ebert holds degrees from Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Webster University in St. Louis, Mo., and the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest in Austin. He is the author of "Climbing from the Fifth Station: A Guide to Building Teams that Work" and for that past four years has distributed "Conversations in Management" throughout the agency.
