Aaron Timmons

Aaron has spent over twenty years as a professional educator in Texas. He has served a variety of different schools with varying resources, sizes and commitment to debate. For Mr. Timmons, educating students is not just a hobby or a summer business, but a passion that shows itself both in his classroom and whenever he has the opportunity to interact with students. He maintains a responsibility to all students as a teacher, regardless of school affiliation or previous debate experience. His approach and pedagogy are based on a genuine desire to help students succeed. His vast experience can help students achieve whatever goal they have set for themselves. He has taught literally hundreds - if not thousands - of students at dozens of institutes over past years.
Mr. Timmons is unique, in that he is one of the few active, so called "national circuit" coaches who is respected for both policy and Lincoln-Douglas debate. Mr. Timmons is the only coach in the history of the National Forensic League National Tournament to have multiple winners in both Lincoln-Douglas and policy debate. Mr. Timmons has even had an IE student earn the most points at the NFL National Tournament in 1990. Timmons' LD students won Nationals in 1990 and 1997 with a finalist in 1993. His LD students have also won St. Marks, Stanford, the Greenhill Round Robin, the Barkley Forum at Emory University, as well as multiple Texas Forensic Association state championships. His students success in policy debate is equally impressive - winning NFL nationals in 1996 and 1998 with a finalist in 2001. In 1996, he coached the top speaker at the Tournament of Champions and NFL Nationals. He also coached Greenhill to win the Tournament of Champions in 2000. His students have won most major invitationals including Montgomery Bell Academy, St. Marks School of Texas, Stanford University, Northwestern University, the Harvard University Round Robin, the Barkley Forum at Emory University, Wake Forest, Isidore Newman, Bronx High School of Science, the Glenbrooks Round Robin, Stanford Round Robin and the Glenbrooks. He has numerous TFA Championships in policy debate as well. It is worth mentioning that at a time when policy arguments are making in-roads into LD, few are more capable of demystifying those arguments and explaining how to run and/or beat them than Mr. Timmons. Mr. Timmons is still active in the judging ranks of both policy and LD at local, regional and national invitationals.