Ray Bonilla isn’t one of those people who knew he wanted to be an attorney at an early age. “I took a business law course as an undergraduate while pursuing an accounting degree,” says the Texas A&M University System GC, “and found it much more interesting than my accounting classes.”
Now Bonilla oversees the legal function of a 12-school academic empire. His office is located on the campus of the flagship school in Austin. The 50,000-student university can sometimes feel more like a small city than a school, he says. The campus is spread across 5,200 acres and has its own power plant, police force, restaurants, and health and counseling centers.
