Carlos Munguia of University Park, Texas, was appointed to the Board in 2018, and re-appointed by Governor Abbott in 2023. His term expires in May 2029. He was elected Vice Chairman in August 2023 and elected Chairman of the UNT System Board of Regents in August 2025.
A veteran of over four decades in the local banking sector, Regent Munguia serves as President & CEO of Amegy Bank, Dallas-Fort Worth Region, with a mission to raise brand awareness, visibility and execute a long-term strategic growth and profitability plan for the Dallas-Fort Worth Region. Specifically, he is responsible for the growth of local market share in the Corporate, Commercial, Business, Retail, Private, Commercial Real Estate and Energy Banking lines of business.
Regent Munguia earned a BBA degree with a concentration in Banking and Finance from the University of North Texas in 1979 and graduated from the Southwestern Graduate School of Banking at Southern Methodist University in 1991. He began his prominent financial services career in Dallas with GE Capital Corp after graduation from UNT. Along the way to leading Amegy Bank, he was associated with Texas American Bank, First City Bank, Bank One, F&M Bank and Texas Capital Bank, where he most recently served as Executive Vice President and Manager of Commercial Banking.
Regent Munguia has long served the civic and business community with recent involvement in several organizations, including the Salesmanship Club of Dallas, Dallas Citizens Council, Vistage Board of Chief Executives and as past Chairman of the Board of the Park Cities YMCA. He also served as Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Ryan College of Business at UNT and as a member of the Dallas Business Journal Leadership Trust.
He has also served on the Boards of the Entrepreneurship Institute, Fine Arts Chamber Players, Town North YMCA, Southern Dallas Entrepreneurship Institute and the Presbyterian Housing Program, and as a graduate of Dallas Regional Chamber’s Leadership Dallas-Class of 2000 plus numerous other organizations.
Regent Munguia and his wife, Susan, have four children, two daughters-in-law and a son-in-law, and seven grandchildren. They are long standing members of First Presbyterian Church of Dallas where he is an ordained Elder.