Jerry Durant Driving Parker County
Forward Award — P. Brian Catlin
A resident of Weatherford since
1999, Catlin has worked tirelessly
since that time to help further worth-
while causes in Parker County. Like
Jerry Durant before him, Catlin serves
on the Weatherford ISD Board of
Trustees.
Catlin is a 1981 graduate of
Midwestern State University in Wichita
Falls where he obtained his BBA in
Accounting. He has been a licensed
Certified Public Account in the State
of Texas since 1984, and has been
a member of the American Institute
of Certified Public Accountants and
the Texas Society of Certified Public
Accountants since 1985.
“Everybody chooses a way to
make a difference, and that’s the way
I chose,” Catlin said.
Although Catlin has a number of
people he respects and admires, his
role model is his father, Delbert, who
is 86 years old and still leads an
active, enviable life.
Catlin has been active in numer-
ous community organizations, includ-
ing Weatherford Little League (board
of directors and treasurer six years),
Crossroads Youth Ministries (board
of directors three years), Parker
County Health Foundation (board
of directors), church league basket-
ball, local youth football leagues, 4H,
Parker County Livestock Show, Mary
Martin Elementary Watch Dogs, and
others. Catlin has also been active in
WISD booster clubs and was president
of the Football Booster Club.
When selecting reading material,
Catlin isn’t one to reach for your
typical pool books, Stephen King or
Tom Clancy. A recent favorite read
of Catlin’s is “The Case for Christ,”
by Lee Strobel, a first-person narrative
of an investigative journalist’s quest
to disprove the validity of the Bible’s
account of Jesus’ life and the existence
of God that resulted in his own faith in
the scriptures. Catlin read the book for
the second time