Newsmakers

Promotions, staff additions and other recent changes at Texas newspapers.

Millie Diaz
Jackson County Herald-Tribune
EDNA – After a three-year hiatus to write a novel, Millie Diaz has returned to the Jackson County Herald-Tribune as editor.
Diaz previously served as staff writer and covered sports for her hometown newspaper for five years. A native of Edna, she is an agriculture journalism graduate of Texas A&M University.
Texas Christian University Press is publishing her novel, Feet of Clay; Gus Garcia, Tragic Hero of the Civil Rights Movement, with release slated this fall. Pre-orders are available on Amazon.
Diaz explained the book is historical fiction about the first Mexican-Americans to take a case to the Supreme Court and win equitable representation on juries. Based on a true events, the story began with a murder trial in Edna, and involved civil rights attorney hero Gus C. Garcia and his colleagues, Carlos Cadena and John J. Herrera. In the case Hernandez vs. Texas (1954), the court ruled that US citizens could not be excluded from jury duty based on national origin, because such exclusion denied the accused a jury of his peers.

CHAD GOEBEL
Snyder News
SNYDER – Chad Goebel recently joined the staff of the Snyder News as a reporter.
Publisher Bill Crist announced the appointment.
“Having grown up in Snyder, Chad knows the community and the people who are doing great things here, Crist said.
Goebel, a Snyder native, said he has always had a passion for writing and he is excited to report on the people, organizations and events the make Snyder the community it is. Learning more about “how different organizations benefit our community ... stoked my passion for Snyder,” Goebel said. “Being a native of Snyder I really think I have an eye and ear for what the people of Snyder are looking for when reading the newspaper.”