Senator, Texas State Senate, District 14, 2007-2020

President Pro Tempore, Texas State Senate, 2019

Candidate, Texas State Senate, District 14, 2018

Mayor, City of Austin, 1997-2001

No committee memberships found.

Former Member, Business and Commerce Committee, Texas Senate

Former Member, Committee of the Whole Senate, Texas State Senate

Former Member, Economic Development Committee, Texas Senate

Former Member, Education Committee, Texas State Senate

Former Member, Finance Committee, Texas State Senate

Former Member, Government Facilities Select Committee, Texas State Senate

Former Member, Health and Human Services Committee, Texas State Senate

Former Member, Higher Education Committee, Texas State Senate

Former Member, Joint Committee of Oversight of Higher Education Governance, Excellence and Transparency, Texas State Senate

Former Member, Select Committee on Redistricting, Texas State Senate

Former Vice Chair, Transportation and Homeland Security Committee, Texas State Senate

Vice Chair, Nominations Committee, Texas State Senate, 2017-2020

Partner/Of Counsel, Husch Blackwell, Limited Liability Partnership, 2009-present

Member, Board of Directors, Livestrong Foundation, present

Member, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, present

Representative, Young Lawyers Division, American Bar Association, present

Former Chair, Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization

Former Chair, Committee on Legal Services to the Poor in Civil Matters, State Bar of Texas

Former Member, Executive Committee, State Bar of Texas

Former Chair, Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce

Former Chair, Texas Advisory Board of Environmental Defense Fund

Former President, Texas Young Lawyers Association

Chair, Texas Air Control Board, Sunset Advisory Commission, 1991-1993

Favorite Book:

Lincoln at Gettysburg; pretty much any political biography; fiction by Carl Hiaisson, Richard North Patterson and Robert B. Parker

Favorite Movie:

The Godfather; The Big Lebowski; Snatch; Raising Arizona; Cool Hand Luke; Galaxy Quest

Favorite TV Shows:

The Daily Show; The Wire; West Wing; The Sopranos; My Name is Earl; Sons of Anarchy; Justified; Breaking Bad

Favorite Type of Music:

Bob Dylan; the Allman Brothers Band; Counting Crows; Willie; the Eagles; Blues Traveler; Coldplay; Robert Earl Keen; Jimmie Dale Gilmore; Ray Benson and Asleep at the Wheel

Hobbies or Special Talents:

Politics; running (not just for office, but really running -- for exercise); watching my boys play sports; watching any kind of football on the weekend.