Career
Deshotel has been an attorney,businessman,and Technical Sergeant in the United States Air Force Reserves. [1]
Deshotel was elected to the Texas House of Representatives after he ran unopposed in 1998. He has run unopposed in each election since,except in 2004,2006,and 2008,when he faced Libertarian opponents. However,he faced no significant threat,as he received the vast majority of the votes each year. [4]
He was one of only three members in his 25-member freshman class to receive the Rising Star Award. [5]
In 2015,he served as the chair of the Land and Resource Management committee. He has also served on the Special Committee on Redistricting. As of 2017,he is Chair of the Select Committee on Texas Ports,Innovation &Infrastructure and a member of the Public Education Committee and the Economic &Small Business Development Committee. [6]
He has previously served on several committees,including the House Appropriations,House Economic Development,Transportation,and Redistricting committees. He was also the chairman of Budget Oversight for the House Elections Committee and the vice chair of the Local &Consent Calendars. [3] [7]
In November 2021,Deshotel announced he would retire at the end of his term in 2022,citing a desire to focus on family after nearly three decades in public service. He said he was looking forward to “spending some ‘Joe time’”following his long career in the Texas Legislature [8]
This page is based on this
Wikipedia article Text is available under the
CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.
United States 
United States Air Force