Governor Abbott Appoints Fields To Texas Lottery Commission
Governor Greg Abbott has appointed Cindy Lyons Fields to the Texas Lottery Commission for a term set to expire on February 1, 2023. The commission controls and supervises the operations of the state lottery and bingo, ensuring that all games are conducted fairly and in compliance with state law.
Cindy Lyons Fields of El Paso is a Certified Public Accountant and partner in the firm Lauterbach, Borschow & Company, P.C. She is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Texas Society of Certified Public Accounts. She volunteers as board chair of the El Paso Children’s Hospital, as treasurer of the Pioneers 21 Economic Development and Small Business Incubator Group, and as a member of the investment and finance committees of the Paso del Norte Health Foundation, where she previously served as chair of the board. She is also a member of The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) Accounting and Information Systems Advisory Board, and previously served on the UTEP Centennial Commission, and from 2005 to 2016, she served as a gubernatorial appointee to the Finance Commission of Texas. Fields received a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from UTEP.