CPM Staff

Wooten Hall, Room 367
University of North Texas
P.O. Box 305129
Denton, TX 76203-5129

Patrick Shinkle, Associate Director

M.S. University of Dallas
M.B.A. University of Dallas
B.B.A. Texas State University at San Marcos

Patrick Shinkle is the Associate Director for the Center for Public Management at the University of North Texas. Prior to joining CPM, he was a Vice President at Southwest Securities, responsible for providing municipal bond underwriting and financial advisory services to public entities in Texas. Patrick has over 17 years experience in public funds management in Texas, including 12 years as Administrator of LOGIC and 5 years as part of the TexPool management team.   

Patrick has frequently spoken on investment management, disaster recovery planning, computer security awareness, and technology related issues for such organizations as the Dallas Association for Financial Professionals, the Government Treasurers’ Organization of Texas, the Texas Association of Counties, and the Texas Association of School Business Officials.  He received his undergraduate degree in finance from Texas State University in San Marcos. He received his Master of Business Administration degree and his Master of Science in Information Assurance degree from the University of Dallas, designated as a Center of Academic Excellence (CAE) by the National Security Agency (NSA) of the Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Homeland Security for the Information Assurance (IA) program.  He was selected as one of the Dallas Business Journal’s “Business School All-Stars for 2006”.