Biography
Susan Combs was elected Texas Agriculture Comissioner in 1998, and was re-elected in 2002.
Combs serves on the boards of the Texas Cattle Raisers Association, the Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, Texas Wildlife Association, Texas Natural Resources Foundation and on the national advisory board for Texas Wild. She also manages a cow-calf operation on her family's 70,000-acre Brewster County ranch.
Prior to her election to the office of Agriculture Comissioner, Combs worked as State Director for Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison. From 1993 to 1996, she served as a member of the Texas House of Representatives.
Combs is a graduate of Vassar College, where she majored in French and religion, and the University of Texas School of Law. Before entering politics, she prosecuted child abuse cases as an assistant district attorney in Dallas.