C. Donald Babers

C. Donald Babers was named Regional Administrator for Region VI of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on May 27, 2010. Prior to that time, he served as the Deputy Regional Director from April 2002 until his new appointment. He manages the operations of the HUD Regional Office in Fort Worth, Texas, and the 11 HUD Field Offices within the five states that comprise Region VI: Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana.

Mr. Babers has had a distinguished 40-year federal career, all of it with HUD. He began with the agency in June 1970 as an intern with the HUD Fort Worth Office. He next worked in HUD's Little Rock, Arkansas, Field Office as an Equal Opportunity Specialist, becoming the Acting Director of the Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity.

He then moved to the Dallas Field Office, where he held a number of managerial positions. He was the Dallas Field Office Director for 15 years.

In 2002, he was appointed Deputy Regional Director of the Fort Worth Regional Office and in 2006, the HUD Secretary appointed him as Recovery Advisor/Chairman of the Board of the Housing Authority of New Orleans, and tasked him with overseeing the City's public housing recovery efforts from Hurricane Katrina. Mr. Babers held that position for two years.

Mr. Babers is a member of the Dallas Mortgage Bankers Association, the Dallas Realtor Lender Committee, the Dallas Board of Realtors, and the National Association of Real Estate Brokers. Mr. Babers' awards include the Presidential Rank Award for Meritorious Executive, the highest award a career federal civil servant can receive, awarded in 2006, and the Interagency Resources Management Conference Award which he received in 2007.

He received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in history and sociology from the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) in Arlington, Texas, and currently resides in Fort Worth, Texas, with his lovely wife, Shiela.