Thomas Nathan “Nate” Turner, Jr. is the Associate Director of School Safety Readiness at the Texas School Safety Center at Texas State University in San Marcos where he oversees the review of emergency operations plans, collection of school safety and security audit results, and the operation of the current intruder detection audit program for public K-12 ISDs and charter schools. Prior to moving to San Marcos, Nate served as the Director of Safety and Security for Pecos-Barstow-Toyah ISD and spent five years as an Assistant Principal for Brazosport ISD. Nate previously spent nine years as a teacher with Burnet CISD, six of those years as an athletic coach. Nate began his career in education with Marble Falls ISD in the Spring of 2007 where he worked as a teacher aide while completing his teacher alternative certification. Prior to his career in education, Nate served our country as a Counterintelligence Special Agent in the U. S. Army and did one tour in Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Before enlisting into the Army, Nate patrolled the streets of Lake Jackson, Texas as a police officer. Nate has a master's degree in Educational Administration from Lamar University and a B.S. in Criminal Justice from Midwestern State University, where he was a 4-year letterman for the MSU football team. Nate and his wife, Emily, are natives of Lake Jackson and graduated from Brazoswood High School. Nate and Emily's son, Trevor, is completing a master's degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas A&M and will graduate in December.