Dan Ownby

Daniel Gil "Dan" Ownby (born December 2, 1968) is a Houston area energy professional and currently serves as the International Commissioner for the Boy Scouts of America.[1] He also is a member of the Executive Committee of the Boy Scouts of America and heads the United States Fund for International Scouting (USFIS).[2]

Dan Ownby
Born (1968-12-02) December 2, 1968
Houston
NationalityAmerican

Business

Ownby, a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity,[3][4] graduated from Oklahoma State University with a Marketing degree in 1991. His professional career includes multiple roles in the energy industry and he currently serves as president of West Shore Pipe Line Company.[5]

Scouting

Ownby, a lifelong member of the Scout program, is an Outstanding Eagle Scout, a Vigil Honor member of the Order of the Arrow, and is the recipient of the Silver Buffalo Award.[2] He has also been awarded the Silver Beaver, as well as several International awards. He served two terms (2011-2017) as one of 12 elected volunteer members of the World Scout Committee.,[6] the main executive body of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (first term as chairman of the Finance Committee and second term as Vice Chairman). He has also served as a committee member of the Kandersteg International Scout Centre, located in Kandersteg, Switzerland.

He was the host committee chairman for the Interamerican Regional Scout Conference held in Houston in 2016 and he serves as the BSA Contingent Leader for up to 10,000 USA scouts and scouters to the 24th World Scout Jamboree which takes place in 2019 at the Bechtel Summit Reserve in West Virginia. Dan has been on the organizing or planning team for the last four World Scout Jamborees, serving as the deputy camp chief at the 23rd World Scout Jamboree in 2015 in Yamaguchi, Japan.

For several years Dan served as a Ranger at Philmont Scout Ranch, BSA’s High Adventure Camp in New Mexico, and as faculty at the Philmont Training Center. He chaired the Philmont International Seminar in 2009.

In the Houston area, Ownby has served as a board member of the Sam Houston Area Council since 2005, he served as chairman of the council's centennial camporee SHACJAM (which was attended by over 27,000 participants), and in 2004 served as a Wood Badge Course Director.

In 2019, Dan was awarded the 370th Bronze Wolf, the only distinction of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, awarded by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting.[7]

Personal

Dan is the grandson of former Houston school board Chairwoman and City Councilwoman Eleanor Tinsley.[8] He and his wife Allison reside in Houston, Texas.

References
  1. "International Adventure" (PDF).
  2. "Meet your 2017 Silver Buffalo Award class". Bryan on Scouting. 2017-05-26. Retrieved 2018-02-16.
  3. "Phi Gamma Delta". www.phigam.org. Retrieved 2018-02-16.
  4. "Spotlight". Retrieved 2018-02-16.
  5. "FERC: Documents & Filing - Corporate Officials - Oil Matters". www.ferc.gov. Retrieved 2018-02-16.
  6. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on May 14, 2007. Retrieved September 28, 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. "DAN OWNBY AWARDED BRONZE WOLF, SCOUTING'S HIGHEST HONOUR". WOSM.
  8. Berger, Eric (2009-02-14). "Mourners honor Eleanor Tinsley's activism". Houston Chronicle.
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