- Kyle Janek
Kyle Janek, M.D. (born January 10, 1958), is a Republican member of the Texas Senate having represented District 17 in Harris County since 2003.
- Rodney Ellis
Rodney Glenn Ellis (born 7 April 1954) is a Democratic member of the Texas Senate for the 13th District, and co-founder of Apex Securities. He is currently Chairman of the Senate Committee on Government Organization and sits on the Senate Committees on State Affairs, Criminal Justice, and Transportation and Homeland Security. He also serves on the National Commission on Energy Policy, the University of Texas Law School Foundation Board, …
- Judith Zaffirini
Judith Zaffirini is a Democratic member of the Texas Senate representing the 21st District. As of January 9, 2007, Judith Zaffirini is the second in seniority in the 31-member Texas Senate where she has served for 20 years. Since her initial primary victory in 1986 over state Representative William N. “Billy” Hall of Laredo, Senator Zaffirini has continued to defeat challengers in her Webb County-based district.
- Royce West
Royce West (born 26 September 1952) is a Democratic African American member of the Texas Senate representing the Dallas-based 23rd District.
- Jeff Wentworth
Earl Jeffrey “Jeff” Wentworth (born November 20, 1940) is a Republican member of the Texas Senate from the 25th District, based about San Antonio to the north. He has been in the Senate since 1993. In 2002, Wentworth had a close primary challenge waged by the then conservative state Representative John Shields of San Antonio, son-in-law of the popular businessman Red McCombs.
- Jane Nelson
Jane Gray Nelson (born 5 October 1941) is the second highest ranking Republican in the Texas Senate and serves as Chairman of the Health & Human Services Committee. Senator Nelson is a former public school teacher who represents District 12 which includes parts of Denton and Tarrant Counties. Prior to serving on the Texas state Senate, she served two terms on the State Board of Education, leading the fight to correct more than 2,000 errors in school history textbooks.
- Chet Edwards
Thomas Chester "Chet" Edwards (born November 24, 1951) is an American politician from the Democratic Party. He has been a member of the United States House of Representatives since 1991, representing a district based in Waco, Texas. He represented Texas's 11th District from 1991 to 2005, and since 2005 has represented the 17th District. A resident of Waco, his district includes the town of Crawford, the home of President George W. Bush's Prairie Chapel Ranch, …
- Troy Fraser
Troy Fraser (born 10 August 1949) is a Republican member of the Texas Senate representing the 24th District.
- John Carona
John Joseph Carona (born 14 December 1955) is a Republican member of the Texas Senate representing the 16th District. First elected to the Texas Legislature in 1990, Carona is now in his fourth term in the Texas State Senate, representing District 16 in Dallas County. His current senate term runs through the end of the Eightieth Texas Legislature in 2009. Previously, Carona was elected to three terms in the Texas House of Representatives.
- Steve Ogden
Steve Ogden (born 21 September 1950) is a Republican member of the Texas Senate representing the 5th District. Ogden was elected to the Texas Senate in January 1997, and chairs the Texas Senate Finance Committee. He has a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Naval Academy and a Master of Business Administration degree at Texas A&M University.
- Kip Averitt
Barry Kip Averitt (born 31 October 1954) is a Republican member of the Texas Senate representing the 22nd District.
- Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick (born Dannie Scott Goeb, 4 April 1950) is a Texas State Senator, former sportscaster, author, and conservative radio talk show host on KSEV 700 AM in Houston, Texas. Patrick hosts a daily afternoon show on KSEV radio and regularly organizes political events in the Houston area. Patrick's show was once voted the top talk radio show in Texas by the Houston Press Club. Prior to hosting his show on KSEV, Patrick was a television broadcaster in Baltimore, Scranton, …
- Todd Staples
Douglas Todd Staples (born August 24 1963) is the current Texas Commissioner of Agriculture. Previously he was a Republican member of the Texas Senate representing District 3 from 2001 to 2007. Staples was unopposed for the Republican nomination for agriculture commissioner. He defeated Democrat Hank Gilbert, and Libertarian Clay Woolamin the fall 2006 election. He won with 54.77 percent of the vote, a margin of just over 547,000 over Gilbert.
- Eddie Lucio Jr.
Eduardo Andres “Eddie” Lucio, Jr. is a Democratic member of the Texas Senate representing the 27th District. Lucio is the father of Eddie Lucio, III who will serve in the Texas House of Representatives in the 80th Legislature.
- Gonzalo Barrientos
Gonzalo Barrientos, Jr. (born 20 July 1941) was a Democratic member of the Texas Senate representing the 14th District from 1985 to 2007. He was also a member of the Texas House of Representatives from Austin from 1975 to 1985.
- Tommy Williams
Thomas D. “Tommy” Williams is a Republican member of the Texas Senate representing District 4.
- Bob Deuell
Bob Deuell (born 11 March 1950) is a conservative Republican member of the Texas Senate, representing the 10 counties of Senate District 2 in Northeast Texas, since 2003. He was educated at George Mason University and the Medical College of Virginia in order to become a family physician. Deuell is a partner in Primary Care Associates of Greenville, Texas, and is a member of the American Medical Association and Texas Medical Association.
- Kim Brimer
Kenneth Kimberlin “Kim” Brimer, Jr. is a Republican member of the Texas Senate representing District 10. Brimer was born in Houston to Kenneth Kimberlin Brimer, Sr., and the former Louie Francis Hughes and earned a B.S. degree in Business Administration from Stephen F. Austin State University.
- Craig Estes
Craig Linton Estes (born 20 August 1953) is a Republican member of the Texas Senate representing the 30th District.
- Mike Jackson
J. Michael “Mike” Jackson is a Republican member of the Texas Senate representing the 11th District.
- Barbara Jordan
Barbara Charline Jordan was an American politician from Texas. She served as a Congresswoman in the United States House of Representatives from 1973 to 1979.
- Chris Harris
Chris Harris (born 19 February or 22 February 1948) is a Texas politician and attorney. He was a member of the Texas House of Representatives from 1985 to 1991 and has been a member of the Texas Senate since 1991, representing District 9. He is a former acting governor of Texas.
- Bob Bullock
Robert D. (Bob) Bullock was an American Democratic politician from Texas. With a political career spanning over forty years in Texas, Bullock ended this long career as Lieutenant Governor of Texas from 1991–1999 during the terms of Governors Ann Richards and George W. Bush. After a stint as an assistant attorney general and in the private practice of law, Bullock returned to public life when he was appointed secretary of state, …
- Ken Armbrister
Kenneth L. Armbrister (born 19 June 1946) was a Democratic member of the Texas Senate representing the 18th District from 1987 to 2007. In 1989 Senator Armbrister said, "Do you know why God created women? Because sheep can't type." (See "The Natural Inferiority of Women" by Tama Starr, published in 1991).
- Teel Bivins
Miles Teel Bivins (born 22 November 1947) served as United States ambassador to Sweden between 2004 and 2006. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on May 21, 2004 and sworn-in in Washington D.C. on May 26, 2004. Bivins presented his credentials to King Carl XVI Gustaf in Stockholm on June 9 2004. Bivins formerly served as a Republican member of the Texas Senate from 1989 to 2004 from Senate District 31.
- Carlos Uresti
Carlos Ismael "Charlie" Uresti (born September 12, 1963) is a Democrat representing the 19th District in the Texas Senate. Uresti previously represented portions of Bexar County and the City of San Antonio in District 118 in the Texas House from 1997 to 2006. Uresti, the youngest of eight children, was born in Bexar County, Texas, reared in San Antonio and graduated from McCollum High School. He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps Reserve at age eighteen, …
- Robert Nichols
Robert Nichols is the Republican senator for the 3rd District in the Texas Senate. Nichols defeated Bob Reeves of Center; David Kleimann of Willis; and Frank Denton of Conroe in the Republican Primary. Despite initial predictions that no candidate could win the primary outright and without a run-off election, Nichols won with over 54% of the vote. Nichols earned a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from Lamar University in 1968, …
- Jerry Patterson
Jerry Emmett Patterson (born November 151946) is only the second Republican since Reconstruction to serve as Commissioner of the General Land Office of Texas. He has been land commissioner since 1999. He served in the Texas State Senate from 1993-1999.
- Jon Lindsay
Jon Stephen Lindsay (born 4 December 1935) was a Republican member of the Texas Senate representing the 7th District from 1997 to 2007.
- Glenn Hegar
Glenn Allen Hegar, Jr. (born 25 November 1970) is a Republican member of the Texas Senate representing the 18th District. Hegar formerly represented the 28th District in the Texas House
- Kel Seliger
Kelton Gray “Kel” Seliger is a Republican member of the Texas Senate representing District 31 in the Panhandle and the Permian Basin. Seliger was sworn in to the Texas Senate on March 2, 2004, to complete the term of Teel Bivins of Amarillo, who obtained a diplomatic appointment from the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush. Seliger was reelected to serve a full, four-year term on November 4, 2004.
- Kevin Eltife
Kevin Paul Eltife (born 1 March 1959) is a Republican member of the Texas Senate who was sworn in on March 5 2004 to represent the citizens of Texas Senate, District 1.
- Juan Hinojosa
Juan Jesus “Chuy” Hinojosa is a Democratic member of the Texas Senate representing the 20th District(Corpus Christi - McAllen).
- Mario Gallegos Jr.
Mario Valentin Gallegos, Jr. (born 8 September 1950) is a Democratic politician in the U.S. state of Texas. He is the current senator from District 6 in the Texas Senate, which serves a portion of Harris County. Gallegos was a long-time firefighter with the Houston Fire Department, and retired as a Senior Dispatcher after 22 years of service. He received a B.A. from the #REDIRECT University of Houston.
- Drew Nixon
Drew Eldred Nixon (born November 21 1959) was a Texas state senator from 1995 to 2001, largely known for a tabloid sex scandal. After graduating from Carthage High School, Nixon attended Panola Junior College and Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, where he graduated "summa cum laude" in 1982 with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in accounting. Nixon is a Certified Public Accountant.
- Gregory Luna
Gregorio “Gregory” Luna (17 November 1932 – 6 November 1999) was a San Antonio, Texas politician who served as a Democrat in both the Texas House of Representatives and the Texas Senate for the 14 years from 1985 to 1999. While in the legislature, Luna was considered to be a “champion of education”. He was also one of the founders of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, and served four terms as board chair
- Nelson Wolff
Nelson W. Wolff (born 1940) is a San Antonio, Texas political figure. He represented Bexar County as a Democrat in the Texas House of Representatives from 1971 to 1973, and the Texas Senate from 1973 to 1975. He served on the San Antonio City Council as the representative of Council District 8 and then as mayor of San Antonio, Texas from 1991-1995 and currently serves as Bexar County Judge.
- Searcy Bracewell
Searcy Bracewell was founder of the Houston-based law firm Bracewell & Giuliani and a former state representative and senator from Houston. He was born on January 19, 1918 and died on May 13, 2003. A member of the Texas House of Representatives from 1947 to 1949 and the Texas Senate from 1949 to 1959, Bracewell wrote bills establishing what later became the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and the University of Texas Health Science Center Dental School.
- Robert L. Duncan
Robert Lloyd Duncan (born August 5, 1953) is a Republican member of the Texas Senate from the 28th District, based in Lubbock. He was first elected to the Senate in 1996. He previously served in the Texas House of Representatives. He was succeeded in the House seat by his fellow Republican Carl Isett.
- Don Kennard
Don Kennard (born 6 May 1929) was a Democrat representing Fort Worth and Tarrant County in both the Texas House of Representatives and the Texas Senate from 1953 to 1973. Kennard represented District 60-3 in the Texas House from 53rd through the 62nd Legislatures, and the Tenth District in the 58th through the 62nd Legislatures. Kennard was an early proponent of a wide variety of conservation-related initiatives in the Legislature.