Baylor Health Care System Names Judge Ed Kinkeade to Lead Board of Trustees

Contact: Susan Hall, 214-820-1817
Email: susanh@baylorhealth.edu

(DALLAS, July 26, 2006) - Judge Ed Kinkeade, who serves as a United States District Judge for the Northern District of Texas, became chairman of the board of trustees, Baylor Health Care System (BHCS) on July 1, 2006. He will serve a two-year term.

"Judge Kinkeade is a man of great integrity whose leadership and judgment we all seek and respect," said Joel Allison, president and chief executive officer, Baylor Health Care System. "In his everyday life, he displays a commitment to Baylor's mission to serve all people through exemplary health care, education, research, and community service. We are honored that Judge Kinkeade and all our board members faithfully volunteer their time to help Baylor meet the growing health care needs of our community."

Judge Kinkeade was appointed to the federal bench of the Northern District of Texas in 2002 by President George W. Bush. Son of the late Dr. and Mrs. Henry H. Kinkeade, the Judge's father pastored Irving's First Baptist Church for 32 years. Judge Kinkeade earned his undergraduate degree and his law degree at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He earned a Master of Laws degree from the University of Virginia.

Judge Kinkeade was in private practice from 1974 to 1980, first with the firm of Dennis G. Brewer, Inc., and then became a partner at the firm of Power and Kinkeade in Irving. In 1981, Kinkeade left private practice at the age of 29 when he was elected judge of County Criminal Court No. 10 in Dallas. Eight months later, he was appointed judge of the 194th Judicial District Court. After seven years on the district bench, Kinkeade was appointed to the Court of Appeals, Fifth District, in 1988 by then-Texas Gov. William P. Clements.

Judge Kinkeade teaches legal ethics as an adjunct professor of law on the faculty of Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth. He has coauthored two books, Kinkeade & McCollochs Texas Penal Code Annotated and A Practical Guide to Texas Evidence: Objections, Responses, Rules and Practice Commentary, and numerous law review articles. In 2004, Texas Wesleyan University awarded Judge Kinkeade an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree, and that same year Dallas Baptist University awarded him an Honorary Doctor of Humanities degree.

In addition to his law career, Judge Kinkeade commits time to his community, having served on the Baylor Medical Center at Irving board of trustees, the Dallas Mayor's Blue Ribbon Task Force on Alcoholism, the Baylor University Alumni Association, Chairman of the Dallas Volunteer Center, board of the Downtown YMCA, and as a charter member of the Board of Irving Schools Foundation. He was appointed to the Baylor Health Care System board of trustees on July 1, 1998.
Judge Kinkeade is a charter member of the Fellowship Church, which his family and thirty-four other individuals started as a mission of First Baptist Church in Irving in 1989. Fellowship Church now has five locations and an attendance near 22,000 each weekend. His wife, Melissa, also a Baylor University graduate, teaches reading in Irving. They have two children, Mandy and Brad, both Baylor University graduates.

As a volunteer, Judge Kinkeade trained his yellow lab Bo, as a pet therapy dog. He and Bo work with disabled patients at various Baylor Health Care System facilities in the area.

Baylor Health Care System, a not-for-profit health care provider based in North Texas, is a growing network of hospitals, primary care and specialty centers, rehabilitation clinics, senior health centers, affiliated ambulatory surgery centers and the Baylor Research Institute. In fiscal year 2005, Baylor Health Care System reported $314 million in community benefit to the Department of State Health Services.