Pat Fallon

Fallon earned his bachelor's degree in government and international relations from the University of Notre Dame.[1] At Notre Dame, Fallon played varsity football under coach Lou Holtz and was part of the 1988 national championship team. He ran a t-shirt business as a Notre Dame student and participated in campus and Republican political activities. He was a cadet in the Reserve Officers Training Corps of the United States Air Force. Subsequently, he served as a second lieutenant for four years, during which he received the Air Force Achievement Medal.[3]

After college, Fallon relocated in the early 1990s to Denton County. He is the president and chief executive officer of Virtus Apparel, a company which specializes in clothing of military and patriotic design. Based in Prosper, it has a dozen national locations and about one hundred total employees.[3][4]

Fallon is married to the former Susan Kimberly Garner. The couple has two sons.[1] He is affiliated with the Holy Cross Catholic Church in The Colony. He is a donor to Dallas Baptist University, Frisco Family Services, and the Boys and Girls Club of America.[3]

In 2009, Fallon waged a grassroots campaign which netted him 57 percent of the vote to defeat three opponents for an at-large seat on the Frisco City Council. In the Denton County portion of Frisco, which consists of about one-third of the voters in House District 106, Fallon polled 65 percent of the vote.[3] In his first year on the city council, Fallon voted against a tax rate increase. In 2010, he voted against a city budget that would have increased the municipal debt.[5] In May 2011, his council colleagues chose him as Mayor Pro Tem.[3]

In 2012, Fallon easily won the Republican nomination in the reconfigured District 106 in which incumbent Republican Rodney Anderson of Grand Prairie did not run. Instead, Anderson waited two years and in 2014 unseated incumbent Republican Linda Harper-Brown in the primary election in neighboring District 105. To win his House nomination, Fallon defeated Amber Joelle Fulton (born c. 1969), a former trustee of the Lewisville Independent School District, 5,806 (71.3 percent) to 2,333 (28.7 percent).[6] Fulton proclaimed herself a "conservative" in the District 106 race. The year before, she unsuccessfully lobbied state legislators to gain approval for the school district to increase local taxes without the need for an election. Not long afterward, Fulton was defeated for reelection as a board trustee.[5]

Fallon won the general election on November 6, 2012, 41,785 (83.2 percent) against Libertarian Party nominee Rodney Caston's 8,455 votes (16.8 percent). No Democrat sought the seat.[7]

Fallon was the co-author of a 2013 Texas law which allows students and employees of independent school districts to say, "Merry Christmas", rather than "Happy Holidays."[8]

Fallon ran unopposed for the Republican nomination in 2014 and defeated Democrat Lisa Osterholt and Libertarian Rodney Caston in the general election, winning 24,419 votes, almost 70 percent of the popular vote.[9][10] In the 2016 Republican primary, Fallon defeated challenger Trent Trubenbach with 16,106 votes (82.9 percent) to Tubenbach's 3,327 votes (17.1 percent).[11] He went on to win the general election with 80.8 percent of the vote.[12]

In July 2017, Fallon announced that he would challenge incumbent state Senator Craig Estes for the Republican nomination in Senate District 30.[13] Fallon defeated Estes and Nocona businessman Craig Carter in the primary on March 6, 2018, with 53,881 votes (62 percent). In the ensuing general election on November 6, Fallon defeated the Bridgeport Democrat Kevin Lopez. With 233,949 votes (73.9 percent), Fallon overwhelmed Lopez, who drew 82,449 votes (26.1 percent).[14]

Fallon served on the House committees of (1) Human Services and (2) Technology.[1]