Background
Phillips, Larry was born on April 5, 1966.
Phillips, Larry was born on April 5, 1966.
Phillips received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Baptist-affiliated Baylor University in Waco.
He procured his Juris Doctor from the University of Houston Law Center in Houston. The vacancy appeared when United States. President George West. Bush appointed Republican State Representative Ronald H. Clark of Sherman as a judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, based in the branch court at Beaumont in southeastern Texas. Clark had held the state House seat since 1997.
Phillips secured his latest full term in 2010 with nearly 88 percent of the ballots cast over the Libertarian Kenneth Myers.
Number Democrat sought the seat. 82nd legislature
Border & Intergovernmental Affairs
General Investigating & Ethics
Oversight of Criminal Justice
Redistricting
Transportation (Chair)
81st Legislature
Culture, Recreation & Tourism
General Investigating & Ethics (Vice Chair)
Oversight of Criminal Justice
Transportation (Vice Chair)
Transportation Funding, Select (Chair)
80th Legislature
Culture, Recreation, & Tourism
General Investigating & Ethics (Chair)
Intermediate Care Facility Services, Select (Chair)
Operation & Management of the Texas Youth Commission
Private Participation in Toll Projects
Transportation (Vice Chair)
79th Legislature
Culture, Recreation, & Tourism
Election Contests, Select
Transportation (Vice Chair)
78th Legislature
Construction-Related Workers" Comp, Select
Election Contests, Select
State Cultural and Recreational Resources
Transportation (Vice Chair)
In November 2010, State Representative Bryan Hughes, an attorney from Mineola in Wood County in east Texas, withdrew his support for a second term for moderate Republican Joe Straus of San Antonio as Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives.
Hughes charged that Straus was punishing intraparty conservative opponents with unfair redistricting. Hughes based his claim on a conversation with one of Straus" staffers.
Hughes said that he was told two East Texas members were being especially earmarked through redistricting, then Representative-elect Erwin Cain of Sulphur Springs and Dan Flynn of Van.
Representative Chuck Hopson of Jacksonville, a Democrat-turned-Republican and chairman of the House Ethics Committee, called upon Hughes to reveal the name of the informant. Under oath at his own request, Hughes identified the informant as Representative Phillips. Before the Ethics Committee, Phillips removed himself as a member for the duration of the hearing and denied Hughes"s accusation.
The phone conversation between Hughes and Phillips was not recorded.
The committee did not reach a judgment because of the lack of corroborating witnesses.
Phillips is the chairman of the House Transportation Committee and a member of the committees on (1) Ethics, (2) Redistricting, and (3) Border and Intergovernmental Affairs. Phillips has also been a member of numerous committees to date:.
Married Robin Phillips.