18 Facts About Donna Campbell

Donna Sue Campbell is an American politician and physician who is the 25th District member of the Texas Senate.

Donna Campbell's district serves all of Blanco County, Comal County, and Kendall County, and portions of Guadalupe County, Hays County, Bexar, and Travis counties.

Donna Campbell's father served in the US Navy and later as a trooper in the highway patrol.

Donna Campbell's mother was a factory worker for much of her life but became a registered nurse at the age of forty-eight.

Donna Campbell obtained her undergraduate degree in nursing from Central State University in Edmond, Oklahoma.

Donna Campbell earned her Masters of Nursing from Texas Woman's University.

Donna Campbell specialized in cardiovascular clinical nursing and nursing administration.

Donna Campbell completed her residency at the University of Texas Medical Center in Houston from 1990 to 1993.

Donna Campbell is the medical director of the emergency department at Columbus Community Hospital in Columbus, Texas, a city west of Houston.

Donna Campbell is a member of the American Academy of Physician Specialists and the Texas Medical Association.

Donna Campbell has volunteered her time and expertise to perform hundreds of eye surgeries in Ghana, West Africa, working through the Christian Eye Ministry, an organization which focuses its efforts to bring back sight to people living in Africa.

Donna Campbell was named the vice-chair of Nominations Committee and given a seat on the Education and Transportation Committees of the Senate.

In 2019, Donna Campbell expressed opposition to expanding medical marijuana to cover post-traumatic stress.

In 2021, Donna Campbell responded to the rise in mass shootings in Texas with a bill to furnish families with fingerprint and DNA kits, which could be used to identify their dead children.

Donna Campbell, running as the "Tea Party favorite", lost to US Representative Lloyd Doggett by an eight percent margin in the 2010 Congressional election for the 25th District Congressional seat.

The incumbent, Jeff Wentworth, who was in the Texas Senate for more than two decades, led the voting with 27,040 votes; Donna Campbell followed with 25,458 primary votes.

Donna Campbell defeated Wentworth in every county in the 25th District except the portion of the district in southern Travis County.

Donna Campbell built upon the base of support she gathered during the 2010 run for Congress to create the numbers that she needed to finish second in the Republican primary on May 29 and to win the July 31 Republican primary runoff against Wentworth.