Charlene Heydinger

Charlene Heydinger is president of the Texas PACE Authority, the nonprofit administrator of Texas PACE programs, and executive director of Keeping PACE in Texas, where Ms. Heydinger led the PACE legislative effort and the collaborative PACE in a Box model program design process involving 130 stakeholder volunteers.

On Capitol Hill Charlene served as general counsel to House Republican Leader Bob Michel, minority general counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, and minority counsel to the House Judiciary and Energy and Commerce Committees. As vice president and Washington counsel for Capital Cities ABC, Inc., Heydinger represented the company’s television and radio networks and owned stations, ESPN, and print interests. She served as executive director of the Morton and Angela Topfer Family Foundation in Austin, Texas.

Heydinger is a member of the Texas, Washington, DC, Michigan, and US Supreme Court Bar Associations.  She serves on the executive board of the Capitol Area Council, BSA and on the board of the South-central Partnership for Energy Efficiency as a Resource (SPEER).