Stefani Carter

Election of 2014 Carter had announced on July 9, 2013 that she would be a candidate for the Texas Railroad Commission in the Place 1 seat vacated by the outgoing incumbent, Barry Smitherman, who ran instead for Texas Attorney General in 2014 to replace the three-term incumbent, Greg Abbott, the 2014 gubernatorial nominee who seeks to succeed the retiring Governor Rick Perry.

However, on October 22, 2013, Carter announced that she was ending her bid for the Railroad Commission and would instead seek reelection to a third two-year term to her state House seat. She was defeated in the Republican primary runoff by Linda Koop in May 2014.

Later work On November 29, 2016, Carter was named as a Transition Landing Team member for the newly elected President Donald Trump in the Department of Justice.

Personal life Carter is a practicing Catholic and was baptized in Richardson, Texas.