William Earl Siebert, known as Bill Siebert, is a businessman in San Antonio, Texas, who is a Republican former member of the Texas House of Representatives from Bexar County, having served from 1993 to 2001.
Education
Siebert served in the United States Army and attended Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Missouri. In the primary on March 10, 1992, Siebert finished second with 2,552 votes (216 percent) to Libba Barnes, who led a five-candidate field with 4,322 votes (366 percent).
Career
He thereafter relocated to San Antonio and founded American Health Insurance Services and Siebert and Associates. He is a registered lobbyist with expertise on insurance, health care, transportation, and telecommunications. In 1993, Siebert assumed the District 121 House seat when Alan Schoolcraft vacated the post to run unsuccessfully against Jeff Wentworth for the Texas State Senate.
Three other candidates, Judy Sisk Millspaugh, Robert X. Johnson, and Davene Jonas, held the remaining 41 percent of the ballots.
In the April 14 runoff, Siebert defeated Barnes, 4,877 (587 percent) to 3,429 (413 percent). Siebert was then unopposed in the 1992 general election.
In 1996, Siebert was named "National Legislator of the Year" by the National Republican Legislators Association. Siebert"s work as a lobbyist while also serving in the legislature was denounced by the San Antonio Express-News, which urged voters to "clean house and dump, the local Grand Old Party"s biggest embarrassment." The 2000 primary results were 8,053 (664 percent) for Jones and 4,082 (336 percent) for Siebert.
In 2002, Siebert considered running for Texas"s 23rd congressional district seat in the United States House of Representatives but deferred to the incumbent, Henry Bonilla, who ran again successfully for Congress in 2002 and 2004.
Meanwhile, the District 121 House seat is now held by Joe Straus of San Antonio, the Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives.
Membership
Though he had been unopposed for the Republican nomination in 1998, Siebert was handily unseated in 2000 in the primary election by Elizabeth Ames Jones, later a member of the Texas Railroad Commission appointed by Governor Rick Perry.