Published: 09-21-07
AUSTIN – Larry Temple executive director of the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) is the new president of the National Association of State Workforce Agencies (NASWA) installed during the NASWA 2007 Annual Conference in Hartford Conn. from September 18 through 21 2007. “NASWA works to strengthen workforce systems across the nation and it’s an honor that my peers have selected me as president of this important organization” Temple said. “I look forward to the opportunity to work with my colleagues over the coming year to enhance services for employers and workers.”
NASWA is a national organization of state administrators of publicly funded workforce systems which provide employment services training programs employment statistics and labor market information and Unemployment Insurance (UI). In addition to serving as the organization’s president-elect over the past year Temple has been a member of the NASWA Board of Directors since 2003. He has served as chair of the organization’s Administration and Finance Committee and co-chair of the Communications Committee.
As TWC executive director since September 2003 Temple directs the day-to-day operations of the agency which oversees employment training welfare reform child care and UI programs in Texas. TWC has an annual operating budget of approximately $1.2 billion and UI in the amount of more than $1 billion annually.
Temple joined TWC in 1997 as director of the Office of Welfare Reform and was named deputy executive director in 2002. Prior to his career with TWC Temple was deputy director of the Mississippi Department of Human Services which he had joined in 1992.
Temple’s career also includes more than 20 years of private-sector management experience in energy retail and real estate development. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from St. Edward’s University in Austin where he serves as a member of the university’s Advisory Council.
