James Low
District 6 incumbent
Place of birth: San Saba
College Attended: Southwest Texas State University
Occupation: Retired teacher and rancher
Previous employment: Cherokee Independent School District
Past membership and offices held in organizations: Board of Directors, Texas Sixman Coaches Association
Current membership and offices held in organizations: Deacon, Cherokee Baptist Church; Board of Directors, CTEC.
Professional licenses: National Rural Electric Cooperative Association Board Leadership Certified Cooperative Director
Tim Lehmberg
District 5 incumbent
College attended: Texas A&M University
Occupation: Executive director, Gillespie County Economic Development Commission
Previous employment: Managing partner, Lehmberg Ranch Co.; president, Central Texas Salvage & Recycling; vice president, NationsBank of Texas.
Current membership and offices held in organizations: Central Texas Electric Cooperative, director; Texas Center for Wine and Culinary Arts, secretary and director; Save Our Scenic Hill Country Environment, director; Texas Hill Country Heritage Association, director; Hill Country Dark Sky Reserve, director; Lower Colorado River Authority,
ambassador; Gillespie County Airport Advisory Board, vice chair; Gillespie County AgriLife Leadership Advisory Board; City/County Relief Route Task Force; City/County Transportation/Hazard Mitigation Committee; Mason Community Advocates; Fredericksburg ISD Career and Technical Education Advisory Committee; Electric Reliability Council of Texas Regional Planning Group; Harper Community Chamber of Commerce; Former Texas Rangers Association; Sons of the Republic of Texas; Alamo Defenders
Descendants Association; First United Methodist Church, Mason.
Past membership and offices held in organizations: CTEC Technology Committee, chair; Central Texas Extra Services Corp., vice president and director; CTEC Compensation and Benefits Committee, chair; CTEC Community and Member Relations Committee, chair; City/County Relief Route Task Force; City Hotel/Conference Center RFP Screening Committee, chair; City Local Labor Task Force; City Affordable Housing Task Force, chair.
Professional licenses: National Rural Electric Cooperative Association Director Gold Credentialed Cooperative Director
Samuel Scott Olguin
District 4 incumbent
College attended: Texas Tech University
Occupation: President, Driftwood 118 Holdings
Professional licenses: National Rural Electric Cooperative Association Certified Credentialed Cooperative Director; Texas Real Estate Commission Real Estate
Sales Agent; and Series 7 (general securities representative), Series 24 (general securities principal) and Series 63 (uniform securities agent state law examination) through the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. FINRA is the largest independent regulator for all securities firms doing business in the U.S.
Previous employment: Rastegar Property Co., managing director of institutional relations; Choice Investment, registered representative and director of institutional services; Gray Capital Corp., founder and president; parent company of Gray Capital Partners, founding partner; Merrill Lynch, registered representative; and Dean Witter Reynolds, registered representative.
Current membership and offices held in organizations: CTEC, director and finance committee and technology committee member; Sunrise Beach Volunteer Fire Department, firefighter, first responder and director; Honor Flight Austin, guardian; the 100 Club of Central Texas, first responder; and Former Texas Rangers Association.
Past membership and offices held in organizations: Texas State Guard, Badge of Honor Memorial Foundation and Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation.
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