Stefani Carter was born on February 15,1978 and is a former member of the Texas House of Representatives from the 102nd District, which included parts of Dallas, and the northern Dallas County suburbs of Garland, and Richardson, Texas.
12 Facts About Stefani Carter
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Stefani Carter is a practicing Roman Catholic and was baptized in Richardson, Texas.
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Stefani Carter's mother was an elementary school teacher, and her father is an engineer turned entrepreneur, the owner of a small lawn-care company.
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Stefani Carter excelled academically in school; her parents told her she would have to work her way through college.
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Stefani Carter graduated in 1996 from Plano East Senior High School and earned a full scholarship to the University of Texas at Austin, where she graduated with highest honors with a Bachelor of Arts in Government and a Bachelor of Science in Journalism.
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Stefani Carter obtained a master's degree in Public Policy from Harvard's John F Kennedy School of Government.
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Stefani Carter decided to run for office in the 102nd House District in Texas, taking on Democrat Carol Kent.
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Stefani Carter won by simply pointing to Kent's record as being far too liberal for her area of Dallas and that voters in the district were far more conservative than the person who was representing them.
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Stefani Carter won in 2010 with 54.63 percent of the vote, having unseated Kent by a ten-point margin of victory.
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On November 29,2016, Stefani Carter was named as a Transition Landing Team member for the newly elected President Donald Trump in the Department of Justice.
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Stefani 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.
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However, on October 22,2013, Stefani 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.