TODD’S BIO
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- World record holder for climbing the highest elevation of each state in shortest time–beat able bodied record by 35 days as a leg amputee
- Author More Than Mountains: The Todd Huston Story
- Featured in Chicken Soup for the Soul, a second helping.
- Featured in True Tales of the Mountains.
- Awarded Ten Outstanding Young Americans 1999.
- Awarded Everyday Hero Award by American Red Cross 1999.
- Awarded Ten Outstanding Young Tulsans 1997.
- Awarded Henry Iba Award for citizen athlete of the year 1997.
- Selected as Distinguished Oklahoman in 2002.
- Awarded Class Act Award from Phillips Petroleum.
- Awarded Memorial High School Hall of Fame (Tulsa).
- Elected City Councilor for Tulsa, OK in 2000.
- Patented inventor of prosthetic device.
- Featured on CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, TBN, C-SPAN, Inside Edition, Extra, Robert Schuller’s Hour of Power and many other televised programs.
- In hundreds of articles including, Sports Illustrated, L.A Times, Wall Street Journal and Forbes.
- International speaker who has performed from Australia to Bosnia and throughout the United States.
- Hired by schools to do programs of personal responsibility for school-children teaching, honesty, citizenship, caring, responsibility and respect.
EDUCATIONAL / PROFESSIONAL
- Masters in Counseling Psychology, graduated Magna Cum Laude, Certificate of Leadership Bachelors of Science in Business Administration, concentration in finance.
- Financial Advisor – Series 7 Licensed.
- President Huston Resources, Inc. 1994 to present.
- Vice President Amputee Resource Foundation of America, Inc. 1999 to present.
- Elected CEO Tulsa Christian Business Alliance.
- Prior work included clinical director of Amputee Resource Center; psychiatric assistant to psychiatric hospitals; child, adolescent and family therapy.