Background
Steen, Junior, John T. was born on December 27, 1949 in San Antonio, Texas, United States.
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John T. Steen, Junior.
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Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Prihceton University (Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, 1971). University of Texas at Austin (Juris Doctor, 1974).
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Staff Member, Texas Law Review, 1973-1974. Member, Board of Trustees and Vice Chairman, San Antonio Community College District, 1982. Bexar County Commissioner, 1982.
Chairman, World Affairs Council of San Antonio, 1984-1986.
Career
Steen was appointed by Governor Rick Perry on November 27, 2012 after Esperanza Andrade resigned four days earlier from the position that she had held for more than four years. Steen is Texas" 108th Secretary of State and one of six officials to have formed the Executive Department of state government. After just over a year in the position, Steen resigned and was succeeded on January 7, 2014, by another Perry appointee, Nandita Berry, an Indian native and naturalized American citizen from Houston.
Steen is one of five children born to John Steen, Senior
(1922-2003), a native of Yoakum in southeast Texas, who owned insurance companies and also held ranching interests in surrounding counties. He served two terms on the San Antonio City Council and was an unsuccessful candidate for mayor in 1981 to succeed Lila Cockrell, but Henry Cisneros was instead elected to the first of four two-year terms in the position.
She is a former regent of the Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University System. Mistress Steen is a descendant of Richard King, the steamboat captain who in 1853 established the King Ranch, still owned by her family.
Her father, James H. Clement, was the president and chief executive of King Ranch.
Her paternal grandfather, Martin West. Clement, was the president and chairman of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Steens have three children, John Steen, III, James Higbie Clement "Jamey" Steen, and Ida "Illa" Louise Larkin Steen Gaunt, who is married to William Hartley Gaunt of Houston, who has roots in Indiana and Kansas. The Gaunts were wed at the King Ranch in 2012.
Steen received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, and his doctorate of jurisprudence from the University of Texas School of Law at Austin.
Most recently while engaged in the private practice of law in San Antonio, Steen served under appointment of Governor Perry as a commissioner of the Texas Department of Public Safety. He is a former gubernatorial appointee to the Texas Commission on Economy and Efficiency in State Government and the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, on which he served for ten years, the last six as the chairman.
Achievements
Membership
Member, Board of Trustees and Vice Chairman, San Antonio Community College District, 1977-1982. Chairman, World Affairs Council of San Antonio, 1984-1986. Member: Texas Commission on Economy and Efficiency in State Government, 1985-1989.
Coliseum Advisory Board, 1985-1991.
Chairman, 1990-1991. Member: San Antonio Bar Association. State Bar of Texas; Fellow: San Antonio Bar Foundation.
Texas Bar Foundation (Life Fellow). Military: Lieutenant, United States Army Reserve, 1973-1981.
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Republican party
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