Todd A. Hunter served four previous terms in the Texas House of Representatives. He retired from public service in 1997 so that he could help raise his three young children with his wife Alexis. He is currently the senior partner of Hunter and Handel, P.C. in Corpus Christi.

Born in Bartlesville, Oklahoma in 1953, Todd earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Kansas in 1975 and his J.D. from Southern Methodist University. He has lived in the Corpus Christi area for almost 30 years where he met and married his wife, the former Alexis Taylor. They have three children: Todd Jr., 22, a senior at Texas A&M University – College Station, Michael, 20, a sophomore at Trinity University in San Antonio, and Christina, 16, a sophomore at King High School in Corpus Christi.

He has been active in numerous community and civic affairs as a sponsor for youth league baseball teams, a director and advisory board member for the Coastal Bend Boy Scouts of America and as a board member of numerous other civic groups such as the Consumer Credit Counseling Service and Texas Lyceum Association.

Todd is also a member of the Corpus Christi Rotary Club and of numerous business and civic organizations throughout District 32. He is a member of Church of the Good Shepherd Episcopal Church in Corpus Christi.

LEGISLATIVE

Todd completed four terms in the Texas House of Representatives after first being elected to office in 1988. He has represented five Gulf Coast counties- Aransas, Calhoun, Jackson, Refugio and Nueces – and is currently seeking the Republican nomination for District 32, which includes Aransas, Calhoun and San Patricio counties and part of Nueces County.

Hunter was Chairman of the House Committee on Civil Practices and was a key player in important issues such as tort reform and education. He served on numerous important House committees including the House Ways and Means, Elections, Calendars, Urban Affairs and Higher Education committees. Additionally he served two terms on the powerful budget writing Appropriations Committee where he was named chair of the Subcommittee on Education and as Vice Chair of the State Affairs Committee.

He was honored by the Corpus Christi Caller Times as their "Newsmaker Of The Year" for 1996. The newspaper stated that " Todd Hunter leaves a prolific legacy" and provided a legacy of service.

Following the 74th legislative Session in 1995, Hunter was honored by a number of groups for his leadership and accomplishments. He was selected by the Harte-Hanks newspapers as one of the "Best of the Best" legislators. He was given an honorable mention by Texas Monthly magazine and was cited as one of the five legislators who had a "career year." Leadership Corpus Christi Alumni named Hunter its Outstanding Alumni of the Year for 1995. The Golden Crescent Regional Planning Commission presented Rep. Hunter with the Harry Gibson Statesmanship Award. He was also recognized as one of Texas Medicine's Best Legislators by the Texas Medical Association in 1995. Also, in 1995, Texas Business magazine named Todd Hunter a "Friend of Business." In previous sessions, he was cited by the Corpus Christi Caller Times and the Dallas Morning News as a rising star in the Texas Legislature. He also received accolades in prior years from the Texas Chamber of Commerce, Texans for Financial Responsibility, and the Texas Municipal League.

Hunter was known as a key player in the successful effort to pass tort reform. He was also instrumental in passing legislation that made Texas A&M University Corpus Christi a four-year university and fought for better funding to build the university. He co-sponsored the tuition revenue bond bill and passed legislation to give statutory existence to the Texas Coastal Ocean Observation Network (TCOON), and authored a bill to help coastal ports and waterways. He is the author of the bill creating a Distance Learning Master Plan for colleges and universities in Texas. He sponsored a bill protecting the privacy of boat and outboard motor owners requiring written, rather than oral, request for information from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.

Always interested in bringing affordable and more available insurance to his legislative district, . Hunter passed windstorm insurance reform legislation in 1991 and 1993 and slab foundation reform legislation in 1995. He passed legislation allowing Gulf Coast counties to use part of the hotel-motel tax it generates for tourism promotion efforts was responsible for a law that transferred the state beach cleaning funds to the General Land Office.