Hugh Parmer

{{Infobox officeholder

|name=Hugh Q. Parmer

|image = Hughparmer.png

|nationality=American

|state_senate=Texas

|district=12th

|party=Democratic

|term_start=1983

|term_end=1991

|preceded=Betty Andujar

|succeeded=Mike Moncrief

|office2=Texas Senate President Pro Tempore

|term_start2=1989

|term_end2=1989

|preceded2=Craig Anthony Washington

|succeeded2=Bob McFarland

|state_house3=Texas

|district3=60-3

|term_start3=1963

|term_end3=1965

|preceded3=Don Kennard

|succeeded3=W. C. "Bud" Sherman

|office4=36th Mayor of Fort Worth

|term_start4=April 5, 1977{{cite news|title=City of Fort Worth Mayors and Council Members 1967 - Present |url=http://tcweb.tarrantcounty.com/e-archives/lib/e-archives/FortWorthMayorsandCouncilsince1967.pdf |work=Tarrant County, Texas E-archives |accessdate=2014-02-11 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222055753/http://tcweb.tarrantcounty.com/e-archives/lib/e-archives/FortWorthMayorsandCouncilsince1967.pdf |archivedate=2014-02-22 }}

|term_end4=May 1, 1979

|preceded4=Clif Overcash

|succeeded4=Woodie Woods

|birth_date={{Birth date|1939|8|3}}

|birth_place=

|death_date= {{Death date and age|2020|05|27|1939|08|3}}

|death_place=Fort Worth, Texas, US

|residence=

|occupation=Attorney; businessman; humanitarian executive; university adjunct professor

|religion=

|spouse=Evelyn G. Parmer

|alma_mater=Yale University,

University of Texas at Arlington

|footnotes=

}}

Hugh Quay Parmer (August 3, 1939 – May 27, 2020){{cite web|url=http://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=14936|title=Hugh Parmer|publisher=ourcampaigns.com|accessdate=September 12, 2011}} was an American attorney, University professor, international humanitarian executive, and Democratic politician in Fort Worth, Texas. He served in both houses of the Texas State Legislature, on the Fort Worth City Council, and as mayor of Fort Worth. Parmer also served as assistant administrator of the United States Agency for International Development and chief of the Humanitarian Response Bureau under the Agency where he was responsible for emergency U. S. response to over 80 declared disasters both natural and man-made around the world. He followed that with seven years as president and CEO of the American Refugee Committee, a U. S. based humanitarian relief organization with 2000 employees in 14 disaster and conflict impacted nations around the world.

Humanitarian career

In 1998 Parmer was appointed by U.S.President Bill Clinton as the Assistant Administrator of the U. S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in charge of the Bureau of Humanitarian Response.{{Cite web|url=http://clinton6.nara.gov/1998/05/1998-05-22-hugh-parmer-named-assistant-administrator-at-usaid.html|title=PRESIDENT CLINTON NAMES HUGH Q. PARMER AS ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR FOR HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE AT THE U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT|last=The White House|first=The Office of the Press Secretary|date=May 22, 1998|website=The White house|access-date=}} Parmer was unanimously confirmed for the post by the Republican controlled U. S. Senate. During his tenure at USAID, Parmer was largely responsible for U.S. humanitarian operations during the Kosovo War.

After the election of President George W. Bush in 2000, Parmer was selected as president{{Cite web|url=http://www.charitywire.com/charity16/02536.html|title=Hugh Parmer, Former U.S. Humanitarian Aid Official, Named American Refugee Committee President|last=Refugee Committee|first=American|date=February 5, 2002|website=|publisher=Charity Wire|access-date=}} of the American Refugee Committee, an international humanitarian relief organization with programs in 14 conflict impacted countries around the world. In 2008, he was elected to the board of directors of Interaction, the largest association of U.S. based private relief and development organizations.

Recent activities

Before his death, Parmer was an adjunct professor at the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas, Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, and Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. He taught senior undergraduate and graduate seminars in International Aid, Humanitarian Intervention and Refugee Affairs.

Parmer died in Fort Worth on May 27, 2020.{{cite web|url=https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/fort-worth/article243037306.html?fbclid=IwAR1aZ7ut2wWLu_6OlZWCaIDAdiY4mVQKDufdLD0mIu_7GM_DHZFlUUtZkPk|title=Anna M. Tinsley, "Former Fort Worth Mayor Hugh Parmer, also state senator and representative, dies at 80"|newspaper=Fort Worth Star-Telegram, May 27, 2020|accessdate=May 27, 2020}}