NM Building Branch, AGC Elects 2008 President

Maria Guy of J.B. Henderson Construction Co. Inc. has been elected 2008 president of the New Mexico Building Branch, Associated General Contractors.  Her term officially began January 1st.  She succeeds Brook Henderson, Lockwood Construction Co. of Santa Fe.

Maria is the 57th president of the association, which will mark its 60th anniversary on October 25th.  She is the first woman to serve in the office.  Her professional career runs parallel with her involvement with the AGC.  She attended the University of New Mexico on an AGC National Scholarship.  After earning a bachelor of science in construction engineering and management from UNM, she entered the civil engineering program at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she taught and performed research on her way to a master of science in civil engineering.  She accepted a position at J.B. Henderson in the estimating department and then worked for five years as a project manager.

She has also worked as the assistant to the firm’s president and CEO, and as director of business development.  Currently, Guy is the company’s strategic project officer, the primary objective of which is to improve organizational performance by identifying and removing obstacles faced by those in managerial and supervisory positions.  She is also responsible for the management of all marketing efforts at the offices in Albuquerque, Rio Rancho, Los Alamos and Colorado Springs. 

In 2005, Guy was chosen "AGC Member of the Year."

UNM’s Anderson School of Management Receives Donation Gift From Local Developer

Local real estate developer Steven P. Jackson wanted to honor his father, Paul R. Jackson, in a way that would recognize all he had done for his community in Albuquerque throughout the years. The elder Jackson, who passed away in 1982, was a local insurance businessman, former board member at Citizen’s Bank and influential leader in Albuquerque who believed in giving back to his community through education. In remembrance, his son has made a large donation to the University of New Mexico’s Anderson School of Management.

The donation is the centerpiece gift toward funding the $1.64 million Anderson Student Center and Financial Services Center. The recently completed project provides Anderson students a place where they can study and socialize together and attend a broad range of events.

The younger Jackson chose the Anderson School in part because the donation will allow UNM to memorialize his father by naming the new Anderson Student Center in his honor. Plans call for a dedication ceremony to officially name the center the Paul R. Jackson Student Center in late-January.

The donation, which was recently finalized, will also assist the school in providing students with greater access to services, more engagement and collaboration between students and faculty, and in leveraging new and additional donors to help support the mission of the Anderson School of Management.

The center also provides a venue for community events and outreach, including lectures, dinners and receptions, recruitment activities, informal interaction between faculty and students, a meeting place for student clubs and organizations, a gathering place for study groups and information distribution.

Steven Jackson grew up in Albuquerque, and is a graduate of the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania. He currently works with Argus Development.

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