Official Site of the Longhorns · Oct 2, 2020
Texas Lottery Veteran Recognition: Leon Holland
Retired Army colonel to be honored when Texas Football hosts TCU.
Listening and leading go hand in hand. Learning makes it a threefold cord and thus the charac-ter thread that connects Leon Holland's growth from a chemistry teacher's son to a retired Ar-my colonel.
His curiosity to know, the family encouragement he received to find out and the desire to con-sider the needs of others inspired Holland to run for student council, become a Boy Scout and eventually graduate from The University of Texas as the first Black student to receive an ROTC commission.
In addition to teaching high school, Holland's father was also a World War II veteran, and so Holland's call to service was a "given."