The Board

Andrew Spangler brings a varied, but uniquely relevant, background to the Board for Top of the Hill Girls School. Andrew is passionate about education and believes that greater access to education is the most relevant predictor for future success. He has walked out those beliefs personally by seeking higher education opportunities across various fields. As an engineer, Andrew has a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering, cum laude, from Texas Tech University. As a pastor, he received a Master of Arts in Theological Studies, summa cum laude, from Liberty University. And in his current occupation as a lawyer, he obtained a Juris Doctor, cum laude, from SMU School of Law and is less than a year away from completing an LLM in Business Law with a concentration in Cybersecurity, Data, and Privacy from Florida State University School of Law.
​His work experience has been just as varied as his educational background. After graduating from law school, he worked for the premier patent firm in the world before becoming a federal clerk in East Texas. Following that clerkship, he started his own law firm. Within two years, his firm became a consistent national leader in patent plaintiff filings in the United States. Today, he currently works in-house at a technology startup company that allows him to leverage his expertise in technology, corporate governance, and strategy.​
In addition to his legal success, Andrew also has a passion for ministry. From 2016 until 2022, he left the practice of law and went into full time ministry. Andrew ended up working at two different large churches as an Executive Pastor but with a personal passion for outreach and cross-cultural ministries. In North Carolina, he founded the Jubilee Institute, which is a ministry dedicated to coming alongside area Hispanic churches that eventually led to the launch of another non-profit organization Andrew serves as a Board member on, Immigrant HOPE of the Sandhills. Over the years, he has traveled extensively providing pastoral training, discipleship development, and evangelism. This includes approximately a dozen visits to at least five different countries across Central and South America. But he has a special place in his heart for Africa as well. He has traveled to Rwanda twice, Tanzania once, and Kenya twice, including a visit to the Kakuma Refugee Camp.​Serving as Board Chair for the Top of the Hill Girls School provides a unique opportunity for Andrew to leverage all that he has experienced before with the goal of seeing young women become the future leaders of their generation. In addition, because of his high ethical standards, Andrew brings a “best practices” mind-set to issues around controls and legal compliance for the school. Long term, Andrew fully expects Top of the Hill Girls School to become ECFA compliant, thereby providing greater certainty around integrity, accountability and transparency for donors and fund management.