John Huffaker
Mr. John Huffaker of Amarillo was appointed to the Board of Regents of the Texas Tech University System on February 6, 2009. Mr. Huffaker currently is a member of the Audit Committee and the Facilities Committee. His term expires on January 31, 2015.
John Huffaker, is an attorney and a shareholder in the Amarillo law firm of Sprouse Shrader Smith, P.C. His practice areas include agricultural law, bankruptcy, banking, commercial litigation, and employment law. He is Board certified in civil trial law.
A native of Tahoka, Mr. Huffaker earned his Doctor of Jurisprudence from the Texas Tech University School of Law in 1974. He earned a Bachelors of Science degree in Agriculture from Texas Tech University in 1970.
In Law School, Mr. Huffaker served as Editor in Chief of the Texas Tech Law Review and graduated as a member of the Order of the Coif. As a practicing attorney, Mr. Huffaker is a member of the State Bar of Texas (member and former chair, Committee on Agricultural Law, 1986-1994; and member, Sections on: Litigation; Corporation, Banking and Business Law; and Labor and Employment); the Amarillo Bar Association; and the Texas Association of Bank Counsel and College of the State Bar.
He is past chair of the Amarillo College Board of Regents, founding president of the Amarillo Education Foundation, and has served many years as a member of the Texas Tech Law School Foundation Board of Trustees.
Mr. Huffaker is married to Charlotte Huffaker, a 1970 graduate of the Texas Tech University’s College of Human Sciences.