HOGUE BARNETT - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Controller
• Member of the Support Team
• Office Manager

My passion is helping others in an effort to improve their quality of life. As the Manager and Controller, I strive to ensure that our internal office runs smooth so that our team can serve clients to the best of our abilities. This includes implementing the partner's decisions efficiently, while working with rest of the team to make it happen. Additionally, I attend to client and staff issues that may arise and I manage the firm's finances. I am happily married with 2 beautiful children. Being a wife and mother is the most challenging and most important thing in my life. My family is everything to me and I'm very blessed.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Support Team
• Legal Assistant and Drafting Team

Bernadette R. Machicado, better known as Birdie, was born and raised in a small city near Fort Worth, Texas. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor's degree in Social Work and has found the power of systems an integral and crucial component to improve efficiencies in the workplace. She has a passion for law and believes systems can be utilized to better help our clients, team and attorneys. She previously assisted partner, Rex Hogue, and is now part of the drafting team.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Support Team
• Paralegal
• Paralegal / Receptionist

Brooke was born and raised in a small town in East Texas. She moved to Arlington in 2018, where she continued growing as a banker. Her desire for purpose in her work led her to Hogue Barnett in 2022. She feels she has now discovered her calling to improve the lives of others and support families through difficult times as a paralegal at Hogue Barnett. Outside of work, Brooke enjoys spending time with her children. Her favorite memories are watching and cheering at their sporting events and playing with their beautiful German Shepard, King. God is the center of her life and she has so much to be thankful for - her family, church and support group, and her Haiman Hogue family and clients. She is extremely thankful that God led her to Haiman Hogue where she can apply her passion to serve God and others.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Support Team
• Canadian Barrister & Solicitor ( Ontario ) - Probate Team

Job Titles:

• Attorney, Recently Retired

Guy B. Garner, III was born in Ft. Worth, Texas to Guy B. Garner, Jr., an engineer with General Dynamics, and Patricia Newman Garner, a homemaker who later in life became licensed as a speech pathologist. Guy's parents moved to Arlington, Texas soon after Guy's birth, and Arlington has been Guy's hometown ever since. Guy was active in Boy Scout Troop 357, and attained the rank of Eagle Scout and was inducted into Order of the Arrow. Guy graduated from Arlington High School in 1970. He then attended Howard Payne College in Brownwood, Texas and graduated from Howard Payne's honors program, the Douglas McArthur Academy of Freedom, in 1974. Upon graduation from Howard Payne College, Guy entered Baylor University's School of Law and graduated with his J.D. degree in 1976. Guy became licensed to practice law in Texas on February 14, 1977. After graduating from Baylor Law School, Guy returned to Arlington and went to work for longtime Arlington attorney, William "Bill" L. Bondurant in 1977. During his time working for Mr. Bondurant Guy gained a wealth of valuable experience working in many areas of the law including of banking law, civil and personal injury trial litigation, family law, forming corporations and partnerships, and real estate law. Guy decided to open his own law firm in Arlington in 1990 by forming what became Garner Law Firm, P.C. At that same time, Guy decided to begin focusing his legal work solely in the areas of Wills, Trusts, Estate Planning, Probate, and Trust Administration. He joined the National Network of Estate Planning Attorneys and then became a founding member of WealthCounsel, a national network and educational forum for law firms and attorneys that primarily worked in the field of estate planning, elder law, and trust administration. Guy merged his law firm with the law firm of Haiman Hogue in December 2019. Guy is married to the former Nancy Linnea Wade. They worship at Lamar Baptist Church in Arlington, and enjoy traveling, spending time with family and friends, reading, and fishing. They have a rescue dog named Mona that runs the house. Education Howard Payne University, BA Honor's Program in Social Sciences Baylor University School of Law, J.D.

Job Titles:

• National Counsel of Elder

Job Titles:

• Attorney
• Co - Founder
• Member of the State Bar of Texas

Rex L. Hogue earned a B.A. Degree from Texas Tech University in 1982, and a Juris Doctor in 1992 from Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Mr. Hogue has been practicing law since 1993. He limits his practice to estate planning, estate and gift tax planning, business planning, asset protection planning, probate, and estate administration, working with estates up to $300 million. He designed the family limited partnership in the case of Estate of Kelley v. Commissioner, TC Memo 2005-235. The case was decided in 2005 and is considered a huge taxpayer victory. He has authored two books, Practical Estate Planning and Biblical Principles of Estate Planning, and co-authored the Family Limited Partnership Practice System, a six-volume set designed for attorneys published by WealthCounsel, LLC. He also co-hosted a radio show in 2010 called "Tax Talk." He frequently speaks on these subjects (primarily to professionals), for continuing education credit to attorneys, CPAs, and financial professionals. Mr. Hogue is a member of the State Bar of Texas (and the Real Estate, Trust, and Probate Section), is a current subscriber to WealthCounsel, and the Texas Forum. Mr. Hogue married his wife, the former Dottie Malpass, in February 1992. They have three children, David (born in May 1993), Laura (born in December 1994), and Stephen (born in March 1998). Dottie, a former schoolteacher, is now is a full-time mother. The Hogue family attends and is active at a local church in Frisco. He served on the board of a private Christian school for four years. He served on a homeowners' association board for over ten years. When his sons played football for the Home School Athletic Association, he served as the announcer for the high school varsity team and the junior high team, as well as assisted the organization with football statistics and half-time show coordination. He has coached little league baseball and adult softball.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Support Team
• Paralegal

Job Titles:

• Member of the Support Team
• Director of Drafting

I am the Director of Drafting and I am responsible for management and supervision of the creation and finalization of the various documents that we provide for our clients. Between direct interactions with our clients and working intimately with our attorneys, I ensure that our clients' wishes and needs are fulfilled and their estate and family protection planning is specifically designed to match their lives and families. My professional background is in banking compliance and not-for-profit casework. I've always felt comfortable in detail-oriented work and designs, picking through information to find the best path forward, and in serving others through my occupation. The work we do at Haiman Hogue provides the opportunity to challenge myself and further my own education while providing care that most people don't realize they, and more importantly their families, need.

Job Titles:

• Director of Community Services
• Member of the Support Team

I am the Director of Community Services and my job includes public relations on behalf of our firm with the main emphasis of community involvement and securing speaking engagements that allow us to fulfill one of our primary core values of educating the public. I make sure that we are a great community partner by having us participate in as many charity and community events as possible, with our emphasis being those that highlight and aid the Senior population of North Texas.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Support Team
• Receptionist

Sue was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1984, she and her husband, Fred moved to Plano, Texas, and now currently reside in McKinney, Texas. Sue has spent the last 25 years of her career serving in a capacity of Office Manager, Receptionist, and Administrative Assistant, for various organizations and businesses including The Junior League of Plano, Plano Chamber of Commerce, Presbyterian Hospital of Plano/Sue A. de Mille Women's Diagnostic Center, & Edward Jones Investment. Sue is now our Receptionist at Haiman Hogue. She knows her mother would have been so proud that she's now working at a law firm, as her mother also worked at a law firm in St. Louis as a "Legal Secretary". While assisting clients, patients, or members at each place of organization or business she has worked, Sue has always been known and appreciated for providing an outstanding first impression. Outside of the office she enjoys spending time with her husband to whom she has been married for 50 years, her 2 sons and daughters-in-law, and their 5 grandchildren who affectionally call her ‘Mimi'. Sue's sons both graduated from Texas Tech University. She loves any time the family can be together, and thoroughly enjoys all of their football, baseball, basketball, gymnastics and cheerleading activities. She loves making decorated sugar cookies on special occasions & holidays for her friends and family, and she loves traveling, taking walks, and playing bridge. While Sue's sons were in school, she was very active volunteering and serving as President of the PTA for their elementary, middle and high schools. It was very important to her to stay at home and volunteer with the many Collin County organizations while her son's attended school. Sue was honored as a Texas PTA Life Member, and is a graduate of the Leadership Plano Program (Class 2011-2012).

Job Titles:

• Attorney
• Co - Founder
• Partner
• Senior Attorney

Susan has been an attorney since 1989. She graduated from Baylor Law School and immediately joined the Collin County DA's office. Her career as a prosecutor spanned almost 10 years until her twin girls were born in 1998. At that time, she and her husband, Scott, determined that it was important that Susan stay home with her daughters. For sixteen years she kept a small practice out of her home and enjoyed being wife to Scott and mom to her three girls. During that time, she also spent a year working for President George W. Bush in the White House and serving for five years as Director of Kids Ministry at Willow Bend Church in Plano. Her children are now grown, and two sons-in-love have been added to the family. Her newest role is ‘Mimi', and she is thrilled! Since June of 2014 Susan has focused her practice on estate planning and elder law. She currently leads the Estate Administration Team of Hogue Barnett and guides her clients through the difficult days and months after a loved one has passed. She also listens with compassion and understanding as she assists her clients in their own estate planning. It is her desire to honor Christ in the way she serves her clients. Being part of the Hogue Barnett family is a good fit for Susan. She believes that God has brought her to a Firm that values her, not only as an attorney, but as a follower of Christ. Haiman Hogue is a place that allows her to continue to serve God and her family while she devotedly takes care of the firm's clients.

Job Titles:

• Senior Attorney
• Attorney, Recently Retired

Tom Ford grew up in Breckenridge, a small Texas town where oil, cattle, and football were King. Tom started playing football in fourth grade, apart from one season in high school when he was injured, he played until he graduated from high school. He lettered in his junior year when they won the State Championship and was a team Captain in his senior year, and ‘never lost a coin toss'! The Breckenridge Buckaroos won five state football championships in ten years, two of which were won while he was in high school. He earned a BBA degree in Accounting from Texas Christian University and a Juris Doctor degree from the South Texas College of Law. Tom worked in the corporate world for eighteen years before he set up his law practice. During the first nine years he worked with computers, creating corporate management systems while he attended law school at night and managed information systems for National and International companies. During this time he enlisted in the Texas National Guard, served on active duty, attended Officers Candidate School, and completed his six years' service in the US Army Reserve as a commissioned officer. The next nine years were spent working for National and International companies in management positions as a corporate officer and part owner. Tom was treasurer of the leveraged buyout of a corporate entity based in Maine, where he and his family lived for three years. Tom married Myra Winn Ford in 1976 and they are proud parents of their son Winston, a Captain with the Frisco fire department and Kendra, Client Development Manager for a law firm in Dallas. Tom was very active in raising his children. He coached his daughter's softball team for several years as well as his son's baseball and football teams. Tom & My are the grandparents of five wonderful grandchildren living in Dallas and McKinney. After moving back to Texas from Maine, ten plus years out of law school, Tom decided to take the Texas Bar Exam and open his own law practice in Plano. As a sole practitioner, he shared office space with several other attorneys for a few years. Then in the early 1990's Tom built a significant and successful bankruptcy law practice which he maintained for about twelve years. Subsequent changes in the practice of Bankruptcy Law encouraged Tom to gradually shift his law practice to Elder Law and Estate Planning. Tom and his friend, Jim Watts, formed a Law Partnership named Ford and Watts, PLLC in the early 2000's which was focused mainly on Elder Law and Estate Planning. After Jim's sudden death in 2011, Tom regrouped his law practice under the Law Firm of Thomas A. Ford, Jr. He continued with his and Jim's plan to work with individuals and families as they make some of the most important decisions in their lives regarding their assets and their loved ones. Tom feels that putting together a detailed Estate Plan to provide for your loved ones or navigating through Elder Law matters are some of the most serious and sometimes confusing considerations a client can face. In 2021 Tom merged his law firm with Haiman Hogue PLLC to continue his work helping families and individuals make good legal choices. He chose Haiman Hogue PLLC because of their high moral standards and reputation as knowledgeable legal counsel.