George H. Soriano, JR.

George earned a Juris Doctor at the Saint Louis University School of Law in Saint Louis, Missouri, where he focused his studies on litigation and business transactional law.  He earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from the McCombs School of Business of the University of Texas at Austin, along with a commission in the US Army through the Army ROTC Scholarship Program.

Commissioned as a logistics officer, George served in the Regular Army and Army Reserve for 25 years, retiring as a lieutenant colonel, having served tours as a battalion commander and as a staff officer at the Pentagon.  Along with his initial logistics specialty, George also earned specialties in contracting and industrial management.  He is a graduate of the US Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas and the US Army Logistics College at Fort Lee, Virginia.  George is a member of the US Army Acquisition Corps and a warranted contracting officer.  Upon retirement, he was inducted into the Distinguished Order of Saint Martin, the patron saint of the Quartermaster Corps.

George began his legal career as a business litigation attorney with Byrne, Downing, & Ratliff, P.C. in Dallas, Texas.  After leaving the firm, George moved to Romania, where he was Country Manager for Redeco Petroleum, an independent Canadian oil company.  In this role he negotiated the largest independent oil concession in the history of post-communist Romania, 1.4 million acres, extending from southeastern Romania into the Black Sea.