LegiStorm

Summary

Biographical

Family:

Education

• University of Texas School of Law - JD (1967)

• University of Texas at Austin - Bachelor's (1962)

  Activities and notes: Cheerleader

Office History

Election Results

• 2007 (Nov. 7, 2006 election)

  U.S. Senate Seat for Texas (Class 1)
  Kathryn Ann Bailey Hutchison (Kay Bailey), 61.69%

  Republican
  Barbara Ann Radnofsky, 36.04%

  Democrat
  Scott Lanier Jameson, 2.26%

  Libertarian

• 2001 (Nov. 7, 2000 election)

  U.S. Senate Seat for Texas (Class 1)
  Kathryn Ann Bailey Hutchison (Kay Bailey), 65.08%

  Republican
  Gene Kelly, 32.31%

  Democrat
  Douglas S. Sandage, 1.46%

  Green
  Mary J. Ruwart, 1.16%

  Libertarian

• 1995 (Nov. 8, 1994 election)

  U.S. Senate Seat for Texas (Class 1)
  Kathryn Ann Bailey Hutchison (Kay Bailey), 60.85%

  Republican
  Ovie Clark Fisher (O.C.), 38.31%

  Democrat

Employment History

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Aug. 2017-Jan. 2021)

  U.S. Ambassador

• Bracewell LLP (Feb. 2013-Aug. 2017)

  Senior Counsel

Associated Organizations

• Kay Bailey Hutchison for Senate Committee (Texas)

• KPAC

Awards

• Best of Congress Award (Working Mother Magazine) (July 2012)

• Support of Military Families Award (National Military Family Association) (2001)

Privately Financed Travel

9 trips taken between 2000 - 2012 costing $20,041

See map of trips

Personal Financial Disclosures

Disclosures as a member:

Congressional Staff

Caught Our Eye

• YouTube poaches Twitter lobbyist

  Posted by Keturah Hetrick on April 9, 2020
  As YouTube reaches highs in web traffic amid the pandemic, the tech giant is also mixing up its government affairs team. read more

• Hilcorp adds Rep. Coffman LA to public affairs team

  Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Aug. 29, 2018
  One of the country's largest privately held oil and gas producers is fueling up with a new Hill hire. read more

• Houston-focused lobbyist back to Congress

  Posted by Keturah Hetrick on July 19, 2016
  After a 13-year break from Congress while lobbying, Mary Schneider is back. The Houston, Texas native recently joined Rep. John Culberson's (R-Texas) team as his district director. read more

• Retired Army lieutenant colonel now chief of staff

  Posted by LegiStorm on June 21, 2016

  After a military career spanning nearly two decades and years more as a lobbyist and Capitol Hill staffer, retired Lt. Col. Dave Davis is now chief of staff to Rep. Kevin Patrick Brady (R-Texas), the House’s deputy whip and the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. read more

• King staffer takes government relations job

  Posted by Jenna Ebersole on March 4, 2015
  A senior legislative assistant for Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) has moved off the Hill and into the advocacy world. read more

• Sen. Baucus' departure turns the last of his staffers into lobbyists

  Posted by Katie Barrows on Feb. 26, 2014
  Sen. Max Baucus' (D-Mont.) departure from Congress has pushed even more of his former staffers through the revolving door. read more

• Posted by LegiStorm on Oct. 19, 2012
  Fresh evidence of the revolving door swinging has emerged from the lobbying reports released mid-week, with a handful of first-time lobbyists pulled from Congress. read more

• Posted by Garrett Snedeker on April 26, 2012
  Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas)'s staff director on the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee left a lucrative position at the technology consulting firm he founded when he joined the committee in November. read more

• Posted by Jock Friedly on Sept. 14, 2011
  Noe Garcia III is the latest revolving door staffer-lobbyist. His filing's release comes a day after LegiStorm published its findings that 5,400 people in the past decade have served as both paid congressional staff and registered lobbyists. read more

• Storm Tips: Senators rake in royalties

  Posted by LegiStorm on June 12, 2009
  Senators may have reputations to some as being inexhaustible windbags but they sure like to write too. read more