Dan Huberty

Huberty is a native of Parma, 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. He currently serves as President and Chief Operating Officer of The Parking REIT, a real estate investment trust where he works to acquire income-producing parking assets. Previously he was an executive with a parking company; before that, a natural gas fueling company.

Huberty and his wife, the former Janet Marie Etterman, have three children. They are members of the Saint Martha's Roman Catholic Church parish in Kingwood/Porter, Texas.[5]

From 2006 to 2010, Huberty was an elected trustee of the nonpartisan Humble Independent School District. He was the board president from 2009 to 2010.[1]

When Republican Representative Joe Crabb declined to seek reelection in 2010, Huberty and three others entered the primary election to choose a successor. With the help of Republican Strategist, Allen Blaekmore, [6] Huberty nearly won with 7,465 votes (48.8 percent) but was forced into a runoff election with anesthesiologist Susan Dobbs Curling (born 1957) of Kingwood, another Houston suburb, who received 3,063 votes (20 percent). Two other candidates, businesswoman Addie Sturgeon Wiseman (born 1963) and physician Martin C. Basaldua (born 1951), also of Humble, held the remaining 31.3 percent of the vote.[7] Huberty then defeated Curling.[8] In the general election, Huberty defeated Democrat Joe A. Montemayor, 37,725 (75.3 percent) to 12,406 (24.7 percent).[9]

In the 2012 general election, Huberty defeated Democrat Cody D. Pogue, an organizer for former mayor of Houston, Bill White, who ran unsuccessfully for governor in 2010 against Rick Perry.[10] Huberty received 45,813 votes to Pogue's 19,435.[11]

In 2016, Huberty was challenged in the Republican primary by Mitchell Bosworth. Huberty eventually defeated Bosworth, 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 the general election held on November 6, 2018, Huberty handily won his fifth legislative term. With 44,550 votes (80.3 percent), he defeated the Libertarian choice, Ryan Woods, who polled 10,964 (19.7 percent). No Democrat sought the position.[13]

Huberty serves on the (1) County Affairs and (2) Public Education committees.  He is currently serving his second term as the Chairman of Public Education committee.[14]

Huberty has served on the Committee on Public Education each of his previous sessions and as the Chairman of the Sub-Committee on Educator Quality in the 84th Session. In previous sessions, he was a member of the Committees on State Affairs, Pensions and Calendars. He has also served on the Select Committee on Redistricting and a Select Committee on Transportation Funding, Expenditures & Finance.[14]

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