C. Dean Davis, Austin, a former UNT regent and the founder of Davis & Davis, one of the leading health care and litigation law firms in Texas, broadened the firm’s ownership and re-branded it Davis Fuller Jackson Keene this fall. His first assignment out of law school in 1958 was his appointment as assistant attorney general of Texas. After he entered private practice in 1961, he helped write the first legislation to authorize the newly created Medicaid program in Texas. He has served as managing shareholder and senior counsel of Davis & Davis for more than 45 years and continues as senior managing shareholder of DFJK. UNT named him a Distinguished Alumnus in 1981.