Where Are They Now? Amy Alexander

A my Alexander’s motivation force in her life has been to keep it interesting. “I wanted to travel and do all sorts of different things,” she said. “I feel like I’ve accomplished that.”

Alexander graduated from Dublin High School in 1986, and went to Texas Tech University in Lubbock. She was interested in both art and science, and tried out a few different majors before settling on biology.

She earned her bachelor’s degree in 1991 and worked for a year as a fisheries biologist in Alaska. Alexander enjoyed the work, but decided that for her next job she wanted something more flexible. “I wanted something that I could do anywhere, so I got my medical technology certification, to go with my biology degree,” she said.

She obtained a job as a medical technologist at Baylor Hospital in Dallas, then did a travel assignment in Saudi Arabia at the King Faisal Hospital and Children’s Cancer center, specializing in hematology.

Saudi Arabia was certainly a cultural adjustment for a single woman, Alexander said. For example, she was not allowed to drive. However, Alexander was able to find a community with fellow expats. “I played on a softball team that traveled to Jedah to play in tournaments, went to Embassy and house parties, scuba dove in the Red Sea, and created an enjoyable social life.”

When her contract in Saudi Arabia was up, Alexander moved back to Texas, got a technical support job with Abbott Laboratories, and bought a townhouse in Arlington. Shortly after, she got married and moved to Carrollton. She stayed with Abbot until deciding to be a stay at home mom and then moved to Southlake where they raised their two boys Mason and Brandon in Carroll ISD.

While raising her boys, Alexander went back to school at the University of Texas at Arlington to study landscape architecture. The discipline merged her love of art and science, and she soon found a job working at a firm that provided landscape design build services for residential homes.

The job satisfied her desire to work with plants. “That had been a passion of mine for years,” she said. “It probably goes back to my farming background [in Dublin] and then in Saudi Arabia I realized I really loved plants, and then when I came back to Dallas I did the master gardener program. I just wanted more and more, and that’s why I ended up going to grad school to try and do something with it.”

But after a while, Alexander decided she’d rather keep her gardening passion as a hobby, and started looking for a way to transition into a different career. In January of 2021, she found a job working remotely for an executive search firm in California. “It’s a good transition, that is slower paced, and I can work from home.” She plans to stay at her current job for the foreseeable future.

Alexander currently lives in the Southlake/ Keller area. Her older son Mason is 19 and currently in college at Tarleton State University. Her younger son Brandon is 17 and a junior at Carroll Senior High. Mason ran cross country and track during high school, and got to run as one of the top 7 that won state during his senior year, and Brandon ran track and played soccer. During Mason’s freshman year of college, he was on the cross country team for Tarleton State University.

Alexander’s advice for Dublin graduates is to follow their intuition. “Seek wise counsel, but trust your own instincts.”

Editor’s Note: This column chronicles what Dublin graduates have done since high school. If you have any suggestions for other grads, email publisher@dublincitizen.com.