Dan Huberty

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Dan Huberty
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Member of the TexasHouseofRepresentatives
from the 127th district
In office
January 11, 2011 –January 10, 2023
OccupationBusinessman

Daniel G. Huberty (June 21, 1968) [1] is an American businessman and politician who was a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives for District 127 in Harris County from 2011 to 2023. [2]

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Huberty ran unopposed for his third term in the state House in the general election on November 4, 2014. [1] He won the Republican primary held on March 1, 2016. [3] [4]

Early life and education

Huberty is a native of Parma Heights, Ohio, a suburb south of Cleveland. In 1991, he received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Cleveland State University in downtown Cleveland. In 1998, he received a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Phoenix. Then in 2025, he received his Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) from the University of Phoenix. [5]

Huberty was formerly president of The Parking REIT, a real estate investment trust, which is owned by Michael Shustek, a Las Vegas-based real estate investor; the trust formed in 2017 from the merger of MVP REIT I and MVP REIT II. [6]

Political career

Huberty, of Humble, Texas, was first elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 2011. [7] Before being elected to the state House, he had been a member of the Humble Independent School District school board for five years, including serving board president in his last year. [8]

During the 86th legislative session, Huberty served his second term as chairman of the House Committee on Public Education. [9] He also served on the House Committee on County Affairs. [10] He authored twelve bills which were signed by the Governor [10] including House Bill 3 (2019), an education bill. [11]

In 2016, Huberty was challenged in the Republican primary by Mitchell Bosworth. Huberty won, 78% to 22%. Huberty defeated challengers from the Libertarian Party and Green Party in the 2016 general election, taking 82% of the vote. [12]

In 2018, Reginald Grant initially ran against Huberty in the Republican primary; a state judge ruled that Grant was ineligible because he did not meet the residency requirements for the district, although his named remained on the ballot. [13] In the general election, Huberty won a fifth term with 44,595 (80.2%), defeating Libertarian candidate Ryan Woods, who polled 10,981 (19.8%). [14]

Awards

Capitol Inside named Huberty one of the "Top Texas House Floor Fighters" in 2017 and a "Top Ten Legislator" in 2015. After his first session in 2011, the Texas Monthly Best & Worst Legislator List included him as the "Rookie of the Year". [15] Also, the Lake Houston Area Chamber of Commerce honored him as the Dr. Hayden McKay “Citizen of the Year” in 2016.

Additionally, he has received multiple awards for his individual achievements, including the 2017 "Legislator Appreciation Award" from the Fastgrowth School Coalition, the 2015 Associated Builders & Contractors "Free Enterprise Champion" award, the 2015 Texas Association for the Education of Young Children "Elected Official of the Year" award, the 2015 Houston Apartment Association "Distinguished Service Award", the 2015 Texas Association on Business "Champion for Free Enterprise", the 2015 & 2011 Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas "Best of the Texas House" award, the 2011 Academic Language Therapy Association "Champion for Children with Dyslexia" award and the 2011 Texas Council of Administrators of Special Education "Legislator of the Year" award. [16]

DUI arrest

On April 23, 2021, Huberty was arrested for driving under the influence in Montgomery County after crashing his vehicle into another car and failing a sobriety test. [17] At the time, Huberty was driving home from the State Capitol. [8] He bonded out after the arrest, and the following day he issued an apology on Facebook and said he would seek treatment for alcoholism. [18] In a subsequent speech on the House floor, Huberty said he had struggled with alcohol addiction all his adult life and was in a twelve-step program. [8]

Career after state House

After leaving the state House in 2022, Huberty became chief executive officer of MoakCasey, an education consulting firm in Austin, Texas. [19] [20] In 2023, Huberty opened Capitol Cafe, and is the owner of its two locations in Austin, TX. [21] [22]

Additionally, Huberty became an Associate Professor of Instruction at the Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin in 2025. [23]

Personal life

Huberty and his wife, the former Janet Marie Etterman, have three children. They are members of Saint Martha's Roman Catholic Church parish in Kingwood/Porter, Texas. [24]

References

  1. 1 2 "Dan Huberty's Biography". votesmart.org. Retrieved March 24, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Dan Huberty". Texas Legislative Reference Library. Retrieved March 25, 2014.
  3. ↑ "Dan Huberty - Ballotpedia". ballotpedia.org. Retrieved 2016-01-19.
  4. ↑ "Election Returns". Texas Secretary of State. November 6, 2018. Archived from the original on November 10, 2018. Retrieved November 15, 2018.
  5. ↑ https://www.proquest.com/docview/3231133310/D167FAAD609F414EPQ/1?sourcetype=Dissertations%20&%20Theses
  6. ↑ Todd Prince, Investigation swirls around Las Vegas real estate investor, Las Angeles Review Journal (June 26, 2018).
  7. ↑ "Texas House Member: Rep. Huberty, Dan District 127". Texas House of Representatives.
  8. 1 2 3 Shawn Mulcahy, "My name is Dan and I'm an alcoholic": State Rep. Dan Huberty confronts addiction after DWI arrest, Texas Tribune (May 3, 2021).
  9. ↑ "Huberty Named Chairman of Public Education Committee". House of Representatives. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
  10. 1 2 "Texas House Member Rep. Huberty, Dan District 127". House of Representatives.
  11. ↑ "House Bill 3". TEA: Texas Education Agency. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
  12. ↑ "Texas House District 127". Texas Tribune. The Texas Tribune Company. Retrieved 12 September 2017.
  13. ↑ "Rep. Dan Huberty's primary challenger declared ineligible to run". Texas Tribune. The Texas Tribune Company. 19 January 2018. Retrieved 19 January 2018.
  14. ↑ "Race Summary Report: 2018 General Election". Texas Secretary of State.
  15. ↑ https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/humble/news/article/Texas-Monthly-names-Huberty-Rookie-of-the-Year-9373607.php
  16. ↑ https://www.nacogdoches.org/forms/DanHuberty_Abbreviated_Biography2017.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
  17. ↑ Canizales, Anna (April 24, 2021). "State Rep. Dan Huberty arrested for DWI after accident Friday night". The Texas Tribune. Retrieved April 25, 2021.
  18. ↑ "Texas State Rep. Dan Huberty seeking treatment after crash while under influence of alcohol". KXAN. April 24, 2021. Retrieved April 25, 2021.
  19. ↑ Join our live virtual event on private school vouchers and the future of education in Texas, Houston Chronicle (May 16, 2025).
  20. ↑ "Our Team". Moak Casey. Retrieved 2025-11-12.
  21. ↑ https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-legislative-session-austin-bars/
  22. ↑ https://www.capitolcafe.com/
  23. ↑ https://catalog.utexas.edu/undergraduate/public-affairs/faculty/
  24. ↑ "State Rep. Dan Huberty District 127 (R-Houston)". The Texas Tribune . Retrieved March 25, 2014.


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