Tommy Calvert

Tommy Ray Calvert, Jr. is an American politician and community advocate. He has been Bexar County Commissioner, Precinct 4 since 2015, when he became the first black member of the Bexar County Commissioners Court. He was reelected to a third term in 2022.

Early life and education Tommy Calvert, Jr. graduated from high school at St. Mary's Hall. He is the son of community activist Tommy Calvert, Sr., who is president of the nationwide nonprofit Neighborhoods First Alliance, and who was involved in the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977. His mother is Val Calvert, head of the business department at San Antonio College.

While enrolled at Tufts University, Calvert worked as an abolitionist against modern-day slavery. As a sophomore, he won a seat on the university's board of trustees where he successfully advocated to get its teacher's retirement fund, TIAA-CREF, to divest from Talisman Energy, which was viewed by abolitionists as "complicit in Sudanese genocide." Calvert was also board president of nonprofit Abolish Slavery Coalition. In 2014, he was elected as Bexar County Commissioner for Precinct 4 with 55% of the vote, succeeding Tommy Adkisson who chose not to run for reelection after 16 years in that office. His precinct includes most of downtown San Antonio and the county's East Side. In October 2020, a groundbreaking ceremony was held for this project, dubbed the Greenies Urban Farm, which is located on land formerly belonging to Union Pacific Railroad. By the end of that year, 10,000 pounds of produce from the garden had already been distributed to alleviate the strains of the pandemic.

Calvert has repeatedly co-hosted the Bexar County 2nd Chance Job Fair with the Bexar County Re-Entry Center connecting justice-involved individuals with jobs and resources.

Other Calvert is the founder and general manager of KROV-FM.