The agency faces a financial shortfall this year because agency officials underestimated the amount of money they would carry forward to fiscal year 2000, which began Sept. 1, according to state records.
State auditors are now reviewing the agency, records show.
Kimbrough, who served as Bee County judge from 1993 to 1995, will become executive director of the commission on Feb. 1. Health and Human Services Commissioner Don A. Gilbert said. Gilbert, along with the commission's six-member board of commissioners, chose Kimbrough for the position. Kimbrough will replace Terry Faye Bleier, who resigned last year. The commission licenses substance abuse counselors and facilities in Texas and contracts with more than 200 community-based providers to provide prevention and treatment services to Texans.