23 Facts About Brandon Creighton

Brandon Creighton was born in Conroe, Texas to Patricia and Morris Creighton.

Brandon Creighton is a long-term member of the First Baptist Church of Conroe.

Brandon Creighton is an eighth-generation Montgomery County resident, where he resides with his family.

Brandon Creighton graduated from Conroe High School, and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Texas at Austin and a Juris Doctor from Oklahoma City University School of Law in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Brandon Creighton served as a policy advisor in the Texas Senate.

Brandon Creighton is vice president and general counsel of the Signorelli Company, a home and office building development firm in Conroe.

Brandon Creighton lost to the incumbent, attorney Ruben W Hope, Jr.

In 2006 after Hope's decision to retire, Brandon Creighton joined two intraparty rivals, Dale Inman and Vicky Rudy, in the Republican primary.

Brandon Creighton won the Republican nomination for House District 16 with 56.6 percent of the vote.

Since first winning the seat in 2006, Brandon Creighton has faced no further primary or general election opponents.

Brandon Creighton ran unopposed in 2008, and won re-election with 49,263 votes.

In 2009, during the 81st Texas Legislative Session, Brandon Creighton was appointed to serve as a Member of the Appropriations Committee, the Calendars Committee, General Investigating and Ethics and Natural Resources.

Brandon Creighton again did not draw a challenger in the 2010 election, and was re-elected for a 3rd term to the Texas House of Representatives.

In 2011, Brandon Creighton served as Chair of the Committee on State Sovereignty, Vice Chair of General Investigating and Ethics, and appointed to serve on Natural Resources and the Pensions, Investments and Financial Services Committee.

Brandon Creighton was appointed to the Medicaid Reform Waiver Legislative Oversight Committee and Texas Response to Sequestration Interim Committee.

On January 11,2019, Brandon Creighton filed Senate Bill 345 with the 86th Legislature and entitled it the Jones Forest Preservation Act.

In January 2023, during the 88th Texas Legislative Session, Brandon Creighton was appointed to serve as Chairman of the Education Committee of the Senate and as Chair of the Higher Education Subcommittee.

In May 10,2014, special election to fill the Senate seat that Williams left, Brandon Creighton came in first place with 45 percent of the vote.

Brandon Creighton received 45.2 percent, Toth 23.7 percent, Bunch 21.8 percent, and Galloway 9.3 percent.

Brandon Creighton won the August 5,2014, special election runoff for the District 4 seat in the Texas Senate, 67 to 33 percent, over fellow former state representative Republican Steve Toth of The Woodlands.

In 2017, Brandon Creighton introduced legislation, SB 112, which would forbid local governments from moving or changing memorials that have stood on public lands for more than 40 years.

In 2019, Brandon Creighton sponsored SB 15, which weakens anti-discrimination laws passed by Texas cities.

In 2023, Brandon Creighton authored SB 17 which prohibited diversity, equity, and inclusion activities at Texas public institutions of higher education.