Health Care Delivery

Paul M. Bass, Jr. serves as Vice Chairman of First Southwest Company and also serves on the Board of Directors of First Southwest Asset Management, Inc. Additionally, Mr. Bass serves as Director and member of the Audit Committee of CompX International; Director and member of the Audit Committee of Keystone Consolidated Industries.

In addition to being active in many civic and community activities, Mr. Bass is Chairman Emeritus of the Southwestern Medical Foundation and former Chairman of Zale Lipshy University Hospital and Parkland Memorial Hospital. He is a member of Dallas Citizens Council, Chairman of the Finance Committee of the State Fair of Texas and serves on the Board of Phoenix Houses of Texas and Children's Medical Center of Dallas.

Mr. Bass is the 1994 recipient of Southwestern Medical Foundation's Community Service Award, the 1995 Dallas-Ft. Worth Hospital Council's Distinguished Health Service Award, the 1999 Dallas Historical Society's Award for Excellence in Health/Science and the Dallas County Medical Society Health Award for 2000. In 2002, he received the Phoenix House Award for Public Service and in 2003, the coveted Linz Award. In 2006, he was the recipient of the Oak Cliff Lions Club Humanitarian Award as well as the 2006 Distinguished Alumni Award at SMU. He is a 2008 SMU Cox School of Business Distinguished Alumni Recipient.

Mr. Bass received a B.B.A. from Southern Methodist University. He resides in Dallas with his wife Carla.