Advisory Council

Reva Bartlett

Reva Bartlett has over 40 years in the financial industry principally as a banker. She received a degree from the SMU Graduate School of Banking and is a graduate of the Leadership Plano Class VI. During her banking career she has served as the President of the State of Texas Financial Women International. She has also been involved with Brigham University Management Association, Texas Bankers Association Long Range Planning, Richardson Business and Professional Women. During this time she has served as Director of American Institute of Banking. Her volunteer involvement has reached to all areas of Richardson and Plano. In the past she has volunteered with Plano Symphony Orchestra, Plano YMCA, CITY House, Collin County March of Dimes, Collin County Community College Foundation, American Foundation for the Blind and many others. Her many awards include ATHENA award Plano Chamber of Commerce 1992, State of Texas Hall of Fame/ Women Bankers, Executive Woman of the Year FWI Dallas 1988, and Volunteer with a Heart from the YMCA.

Jeff Fletcher

Jeff has served as a private practice attorney for over 17 years. He handles state and federal court litigation and has been involved in the creation of and in advising non-profit organizations. He has been certified by the Major League Baseball Player's Association as a Player Agent.

He has been married to Cheryl Fletcher, who is also an attorney, for 18 years. They have one daughter (Taylor) and two sons (Jake and Bryson). Jeff resides in Collin County.

Sally Magnuson

Sally Magnuson moved in 1970 from Buffalo, NY to Plano. After arriving in Plano Sally became involved in the Plano Art Association and Fine Arts League and the Friends of the Library. The Art Association piloted an art program for all elementary schools in Plano. The program was adapted and funded by the PISD. Sally was later selected to serve on the Plano Library Board of Trustees. She served on the board for six year and for two of those as chairperson.

Sally has graduated from Leadership Plano and served on its executive board and been an advisor. During this same time Sally served on the Board of Directors for the Collin County Women’s Shelter which has been renamed Hope’s Door. She has volunteered in many other advisory positions with the Rape Crisis Center, CASA and Live From Plano where she was president for three years.

In 2001 she retired from Allied Waste Services where she was municipal marketing manager. Retirement took an interesting path as she decided to run for Plano City Council, Place 4. She served three terms for a total of seven years. She represented Plano in various capacities at the National League of Cities and North Texas Council of Governments and on several city boards and commissions.

At present Sally is serving on advisory boards for CASA of Collin County, the Journey of Hope, Assistance League of Greater Collin County, and the volunteer group supporting the Arts of Collin County.

Oscar Martinez

Oscar Martinez is publisher of neighborsgo, the community newspaper of The Dallas Morning News published every Friday in 17 weekly editions that cover more than 40 communities in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. He also oversees neighborsgo.com. the hyper local news site that covers an additional 31 areas and provides the stories and photos for the print product.

In 18 years at The News, he has been a print editor, an online news editor and head of both a TV Web site and a Spanish-language Web site. His work with WFAA.com and AIDiaTx.com was honored with two Emmy awards and a national Edward R. Murrow award. Before working at The News, he was an editor at The Boston Globe and smaller newspapers in Connecticut and Texas.

In 1996, he became the first American journalist to receive the Reuters America Fellowship to the University of Oxford.

Doug Otto

Dr. Doug Otto, Superintendent, Plano ISD, has led the Plano Independent School District which serves 55,000 students since 1995, overseeing its rapid growth in enrollment in a challenging school finance system. He currently serves as the president of the Texas Schools Finance Coalition and has also served on school finance reform panels in Indiana and Minnesota. He was inducted into the Illinois State University College of Education Hall of Fame in 2002.

Dr. Otto is the author or co-author of more than a dozen professional articles and scholarly book chapters. Topics range from school finance to desired skills for effective principals. The most recent publication concerns the effective use of data for informed decisions; a chapter in Data Enhanced Leadership. In 2007, the Plano Independent School District Board of Trustees honored Dr. Otto as the namesake of the future Douglas W. Otto Middle School as a hallmark of his service to school children. Otto Middle School opened in August, 2010.

Sandy Simpson

Sandy is very involved in her community as a volunteer. She works with the Frisco Family Services Center, Collin County Foundation Board, Frisco ISD Foundation Board. She is Co-chair of the Wildflower Luncheon for the Frisco Garden Club. She is a member of the Arts and the Frisco Advisor to Arts of Collin County. She is also on the membership council of the Stonebriar Country Club.

Ike Vanden Eykel

Ike Vanden Eykel, among the nation’s most respected family lawyers, has been selected one of the Top 10 Divorce Lawyers in America and is described as the “reigning king” of Texas divorce and the “divorce law jedi” by The Dallas Morning News.

During 2010, he has served as President of the Dallas Bar Association while delivering the same high quality family law services he has for three decades. As Co-Managing Partner of KoonsFuller, he has grown the firm into the southwest’s largest firm that handles exclusively family law cases, with offices in four North Texas locations.

Mr. Vanden Eykel has been featured in Texas Monthly among the Top 100 Attorneys in Texas, as one of the Best Lawyers in Dallas by D Magazine and in Texas’ Best Lawyers. He is often a commentator on local television and radio. Recently, he discussed Divorce and the Economy nationally on the Fox Business Network and on Good Day Dallas, the most-watched morning show in Dallas-Fort Worth.

He came to prominence during the 1980s as a champion of fathers’ rights. But in 2003, Vogue magazine named him one of the Top Lawyers for Women in Texas. After he represented a Park Cities housewife, Mr. Vanden Eykel was depicted in the book, My Husband Is Trying to Kill Me, and a television movie, Dead Before Dawn.
He has written three books on Texas family law: Lone Star Divorce, with fellow KoonsFuller attorney Sharla Fuller, the Texas Family Law Practice Guide and Protecting Your Assets From A Texas Divorce, with KoonsFuller partners Rick Robertson, Heather King, and Charla Conner.

Born March 25, 1949 in Slayton, Minnesota, he graduated from Drake University (B.S., 1971) and Baylor University School of Law (J.D., 1973). Mr. Vanden Eykel is a member of the Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists, a Fellow in the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and a Diplomate in the American College of Family Trial Lawyers.