December Speaker: Susan Combs, Comptroller, State of Texas
Susan Combs was elected Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts in November 2006. As Comptroller, Susan is the state’s chief financial officer. She manages the state’s treasury operations, monitors Texas’ fiscal health, guides legislative decision makers by estimating state revenues and ensures state taxes are collected fairly and efficiently to fund vital programs and services for the people of Texas.
Texans elected Susan in back-to-back elections in 1998 and 2002 to serve as the state’s first woman Agriculture Commissioner. She re-engineered the Texas Department of Agriculture for greater efficiency and took on more responsibility to boost economic development, ignite revitalization, promote Texas products through the GO TEXAN marketing campaign and helped Texas schoolchildren eat healthier by launching one of the nation’s strongest school nutrition policies.
Susan also served two terms in the Texas House of Representatives, where she sponsored and passed the state’s landmark private property rights legislation and authored legislation on tort reform vital to the business community.
Susan has earned numerous awards for her ground-breaking ideas and service to the people of Texas.
After graduating from Vassar College, Susan worked in international advertising in New York, in the financial markets on Wall Street and for the federal government before returning to Texas to obtain her law degree from the University of Texas School of Law. Susan served as an assistant district attorney in Dallas, where her performance as a tough prosecutor of child abuse cases earned her widespread respect.
Susan was born in San Antonio. She lives in Austin with her husband, Joe, and is the proud mother of three sons.
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