Annabel Benavides Galo

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Anna Benavides Galo of Laredo is vice president of ANB Cattle Co. and is a co-trustee of her family's mineral trust. She is the past president of the board of directors of the South Texas Food Bank and United Day School, and she continues to serve on both boards. She is a former board member of the Laredo Center for the Arts, Border Cultural Promotion Foundation, Webb County Children’s Advocacy Center, and the City of Laredo Historic Preservation Committee. Additionally, she is a founding member and first treasurer of the Laredo Community College Education Foundation, and she was a board member and local chair of AVANCE. Galo received a Bachelor of Arts from St. Mary’s University. A descendant of Laredo’s founder, Don Tomás Sánchez, she is married to Webb County Commissioner John Galo. Their son, John Roman, is a freshman at the Garcia Early College High School in Laredo.
Reappointed 8/2019.