Todd Ames Hunter
Todd Ames Hunter (born August 26, 1953) is an American politician and lawyer from Corpus Christi, Texas, serving as a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 32 in Nueces County. From 1993 to 1997, as a Democrat, Hunter also held the District 32 House seat. He did not seek reelection in 1996. From 1989 to 1993, he was the District 36 Democratic representative. In the 1992 election, he was switched after two terms to District 32 via redistricting.
Hunter is a candidate for his eighth nonconsecutive term in the general election scheduled for November 4, 2014.
Contents
- 1 Early life and education
- 2 Career
- 2.1 Role in post-2020 gerrymander
- 3 References
- 4 External links
Early life and education
Hunter was born in Bartlesville in northeastern Oklahoma to Richard and Patricia London Hunter. In 1975, he graduated from the University of Kansas at Topeka, Kansas, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science, Speech, and Human Relations. In 1978, he obtained his Juris Doctor degree from the Dedman School of Law at Southern Methodist University.
Career
In 1978, Hunter moved to Corpus Christi, where he is currently a solo prac*ioner after leaving civil defense law in 2017 as a partner with Hunter, Barker & Fancher, LLP. He has worked for numerous law firms in Corpus Christi.
He is married to the former Alexis Taylor, the eldest daughter of Marcella and Leroy Taylor. Alexis and Todd reared all three of their children—Todd A. Hunter, Jr. (born 1986), Michael Taylor Hunter (born 1987), and Christina Alyson Hunter (born 1991)--in Corpus Christi.
Hunter is a member of All Saints Episcopal Church in Corpus Christi. He is a director and member of the advisory board of the Coastal Bend division of the Boy Scouts of America. He is affiliated with Rotary International and is a board member of Consumer Credit Counseling Service and the Texas Lyceum *ociation.
After a twelve-year absence from the Texas House, Hunter returned to win his former but reconfigured seat in the 2008 general election. Hunter narrowly unseated the in*bent Democrat Juan M. Garcia, III, 27,844 votes (50.1 percent) to 25,994 (46.8 percent). The remaining 1,705 votes (3.1 percent) were cast for the Libertarian Party nominee, Lenard Lee Nelson (born c. 1949), of Corpus Christi.
Though District 32 now includes only a portion of Corpus Christi, the seat of government of Nueces County, when Hunter took the seat in 2009, it also included Aransas, Calhoun, and San Patricio counties.
In 2011, Hunter co-sponsored picture identification of voters casting a ballot; the measure finally took effect in October 2013 and was used widely without incident in the primaries on March 4, 2014.
Hunter won his seventh nonconsecutive term in the 83rd Texas Legislature in 2012 without primary or general election opposition.
An opponent of abortion, Hunter in 2013 supported the ban on abortion after twenty weeks of gestation. In 2011, Hunter supported two other anti-abortion measures. One forbids state funding of agencies which perform abortions; the other requires a woman procuring an abortion to undergo first a sonogram.
Role in post-2020 gerrymander
In 2021, Hunter rushed through a heavily pro-Republican gerrymandered redistricting map that he aut*d through his committee. He provided a minimum of 24 hours advance notice for testimony and allowed for no amendments. The map vastly expanded the number of safe Republican seats, and diluted the power of non-white voters. The map increased the number of seats where white are in the majority and reduced the number of seats where hispanics or blacks are in the majority, even though non-whites were behind 95% of the population growth in Texas.
References
External links
- Biography portal
- Oklahoma portal
- Kansas portal
- Texas portal
- Politics portal
- State Representative Todd Hunter official Texas House of Representatives site
- Campaign Website
- Texas Tribune Directory