Micciche Reelected to State Association Board

Austin— Dan Micciche of Dallas ISD has been reelected to a three-year term on the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) Board of Directors, representing TASB Region 10, Position C. The election was held during the Association’s 2022 Delegate Assembly on Sept. 24 in San Antonio.

Micciche was elected to the Dallas ISD Board in 2012 and reelected in 2015 and 2018. He served as board president from 2016 to 2018 and is current first vice-president.

He recently retired from the law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld. He joined the firm after his graduation from law school in 1981. During his time with Akin Gump, he started and chaired a school partnership program with James W. Fannin Elementary School in Dallas. The program won the State Board of Education’s highest award for community partnerships in 2011. He received the No Kid Hungry Award from Share Our Strength in 2014 and The Closing the Gap Award from Leadership ISD in 2017.

He received his undergraduate degree from Stony Brook University in New York and his law degree from the University of Chicago Law School. He has been recognized by D Magazine as one of the Best Lawyers in Dallas and by Texas Monthly as a Super Lawyer. 

Micciche’s civic and charitable activities include serving on the boards of the American Red Cross Dallas, Texas C-BAR (Community Building through Attorney Resources), and American Foundation for the Blind-Southwest Region. He previously served on the School Finance Task Force of the Greater Dallas Chamber and on the State Bar of Texas Board. He was a member of the Comptroller’s Tax Advisory Group under three different comptrollers.