PTO Goes Outside of Agency for Head of Dallas Office

Meet Hope Shimabuku, USPTO Reg. No. 57,072, your new Director of the Dallas office of the USPTO.  Ms. Shimabuku is a  mechanical engineer who comes the USPTO from Xerox; her prior employment includes stints at RIM, Dell, and P&G, and had a couple of law firm gigs.  She's a graduate of UT (Austin) and SMU law school (don't mess with Texas).  Details at Dallas News.

Interesting choice to pick somebody from outside the USPTO with clear regional ties.