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Howard B Watkins III
Associate Vice President
Howard Watkins, born in California and raised in Arkansas, attended the University of Arkansas as a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity and majored in Finance. After college he moved out to California where he obtained his brokerage license in 1989. A few years later he moved back to the south and took up residence in Texas.
Howard resides in Dallas with his wife, Dianne. They have two adult sons and a beautiful German Shepherd, Maximus, whom they adopted in 2013. Howard enjoys fine dining, playing tennis and golf, and going on long walks with Max.