A member of the inaugural Class of 1986 Flinn Scholars, Nathan Johnson was elected to the Texas State Senate in November 2018 to represent District 16, comprising all or portions  of 10 cities in the northern part of Dallas County. He practices law at  Thompson & Knight as counsel in the firm’s Trial Practice Group in  Dallas. Nathan, who graduated from the University of Arizona with a  degree in physics and earned a law degree at the University of Texas at  Austin, also trained as a pianist and has composed music for the  classical concert stage. During a hiatus from practicing law, he  composed the score for nearly seventy television episodes and five films  for the hit anime series Dragon Ball Z.

Class of 1992 Flinn Scholar Jake Batsell is an associate professor of journalism at Southern Methodist University. The author of Engaged Journalism: Connecting with Digitally Empowered News Audiences, he was a reporter for the Seattle Times and Dallas Morning News before joining SMU in 2008. Jake is a graduate of Arizona State  University and earned a master’s degree in government at the University  of Texas at Austin.

Links:

- https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2018/10/11/i-can-help-you-get-your-party-back-dallas-democrat-nathan-johnson-courts-gop-vote-in-swing-senate-district/

- https://thedaoofdragonball.com/blog/interviews/nathan-johnson-makes-waves-on-dbz/

- https://www.smu.edu/Meadows/AreasOfStudy/Journalism/Faculty/BatsellJake

- https://www.amazon.com/Engaged-Journalism-Connecting-Digitally-Empowered/dp/0231168357

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