Year in review • Retiring leaders
Dr. David Lee Two local HIV/AIDS services agencies late this year announced the impending retirement of longtime leaders. Steven Pace Steven Pace, president and CEO of AIN, is retiring at the end of the year.
Since the retirement of Don Maison at AIDS Services Dallas, Pace has been the longest-serving head of an AIDS agency anywhere in the U.S.
Dallas County Commissioners Court recognized Pace and his four decades of work in HIV at its Dec. 5 meeting. In his resolution, County Judge Clay Jenkins wrote that Dallas County conveys “its best wishes to Steven Pace as he celebrates over 40 years of serving thousands of people with HIV and makes way toward a well-deserved retirement.” He recognized Pace’s “unwavering commitment to the Dallas community,” and acknowledged Pace’s contribution in dispelling myths about HIV transmission. “In 1982, Mr.
Pace made history,” Jenkins wrote, “as the first clergy member to offer solace and ministerial support to the first recorded AIDS patient in Dallas, back when medical understanding of the virus was in its infancy.” And he was the first person to bring a Vietnam veteran with AIDS to the Dallas VA Hospital.
