Administration

Dean of Strategic & Economic Development
Johnette Hodgin

Johnette Hodgin has worked at Lee College since 1985, holding positions of Coordinator of Continuing Education, Dean of Extension Studies, and currently Dean of Strategic and Economic Development. She supervises institutional research, the San Jacinto Mall and EOC programs, Adult Learning Center, FieldBus Center, industrial training, Small Business Development Center, Special Populations, the non-credit continuing education division, economic development and the college's Texas Department of Criminal Justice instruction program.

Accomplishments during her tenure include expansion of Lee College locations in the community from one to six, institution of a full-time Small Business Development Center, increased opportunities through the Adult Learning Center to students not yet ready to enter college, successful Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and SACS site visits, and the implementation of the NSF Center for Digital and Fieldbus Technological Education. She was on the successful implementation team for PeopleSoft software, as lead in Human Resources, Benefits, and Campus Community modules and key member of Student Records modules and continues as a steering committee member of Student Records module implementation. Before coming to Lee College, Hodgin worked two years as a sales representative for a pharmaceutical company, earning awards annually for top sales in the Houston-Beaumont district. From 1979-83, Hodgin coordinated the Center for Training and Development at College of the Mainland in Texas City in addition to teaching in the business division. She has other teaching and business experience in the United States and overseas.

Hodgin earned her Bachelor of Science degree in secondary education from Kansas State University and her Master of Education degree in business from Louisiana State University. Recipient of the W. Kellogg Foundation Grant, she is a former member of the University of Texas at Austin’s Community College Leadership Program.