Mark Weiss:
CLASS OF 1967
Killeen High SchoolClass of 1967
Killeen, TX
Antioch CollegeClass of 1972
Yellow springs, OH
Mark's Story
Life to Date:
Went to UT Austin for a year, then received my undergraduate degree from Antioch College in Ohio. Received my law degree from UT Austin. During college and law school years, I worked at several jobs including helping run a free clinic, runaway center, and drug hotline, setting up medical facilities at rock festivals, teaching at a community college, developing drug education programs, raising and selling plants, being a janitor, a dishwasher, a research assistant, a waiter, a law clerk, a lab technician, and babysitting dying pigs.
Was married to Sophie from 1971 to 1979, and we had a son, Jesse, in 1972. Later spent nine years with Ann, an artist who introduced me to the mountains and the beauty of Mexico. Then met Janet, the love of my life, and remarried in 1995. Janet is an attorney and was involved in human resources management until she retired in January of 2023. She and I had a son, Spencer, in 1998. Spencer, 26, graduated in 2020 from Bucknell University with a B.S. in computer science and engineering, though he decided he would rather work in the movie/television industry. He moved to Los Angeles in 2022 and worked on a full-length documentary about Billy Preston. In November of 2022 he started working for CAA, one of the two largest talent agencies in Los Angeles. He's also a black belt in Shaolin Do kung fu and quite proficient at movie trivia. Older son Jesse, 51, is a name partner in an Austin litigation law firm. Jesse is married to Meredith, who is also an attorney. Spencer became an uncle and I became a grandfather in 2004 when Jesse and Meredith had a son, Zachary, again when they had a dau...Expand for more
ghter, Vivian, in 2007, and a third time when their son Nolan was born in 2011.
I lived in a number of places between 1968 and 1972, though I've lived continuously in Austin since 1972. After working for a judge on the Court of Criminal Appeals and as an attorney for the Legislative Budget Board, I worked almost twenty-two years for the Texas Comptroller, the last fifteen as a judge in state tax court. I left the bench in 1999 to be a partner in a tax consulting firm, where I represented taxpayers in tax disputes in about twenty states. After seventeen years, I retired in June of 2016.
I lost dad in 2006 and mom in 2011, and miss them both. Without them around, I have to occasionally act like an adult. My time is devoted to cooking, traveling, spending time with my wife, both sons and daughter-in-law, and three grandkids, going to the gym, being an amateur photographer, working in my greenhouse and voter registration drives, volunteering with various organizations, going to movies, music, and theater events, writing for a comedy website, and trying to age gracefully. Our travels have taken us to numerous countries in Europe and Asia, in addition to Canada, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean islands, and various parts of the United States. In January, February, and March of 2023 we went on Janet's big retirement trip during which we spent seven weeks in Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia (including Bali). Janet's brothers and their families are in the entertainment business, so we have traveled to movie and television sets and Broadway theaters while they are working. In spite of Covid, life is good.
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