Texas Newspaper Foundation

Jerry Tidwell served as president of Texas Press Association in 1996-97 and president of the National Newspaper Association in 2006-07.

Tidwell graduated from Texas Christian University in 1967 with a bachelor’s degree in business administration.

He began his newspaper career in 1970 as advertising manager of the Andrews County News.

He transferred to the Seminole Sentinel where he was advertising manager for three years.

In 1976 he was named publisher of the Lamb County News in Littlefield, and in 1979 became publisher of the Hood County News, which has thrived under his leadership and today is Texas’ largest semiweekly.

Tidwell served as president of North and East Texas Press Association in 1984-85 and is a recipient of that association’s Sam Holloway Award. He received West Texas Press Association’s Harold Hudson Memorial Award in 2001. Hudson also was an NNA president.

He is a member and past president of the Texas Newspaper Foundation board of trustees and chairs the Texas Press Association Legislative Committee. He also has been a member of the Lake Granbury Medical Center board of trustees, Children’s Advocacy Center board of directors and Granbury Kiwanis Club.