Former State Bar of Texas President G. Thomas Vick Jr. was named a Distinguished Alumnus of Austin College in Sherman during a dinner held on October 17. Vick, a 1977 graduate of Austin College, served as president of the State Bar of Texas from 2017 to 2018.

Vick also served as chair of the Texas Bar Foundation Board of Trustees from 2013 to 2014; on the State Bar of Texas Board of Directors from 2005 to 2008, and on the Texas Access to Justice Commission from 2006 to 2009. He has received numerous awards and recognitions from the State Bar of Texas and other legal associations around Texas and the nation.

A partner in VickCarney in Weatherford, Vick received a J.D. in 1981 from South Texas College of Law Houston.