17 Facts About Suzanna Hupp

Suzanna Gratia Hupp was born on September 28,1959 and is a Republican former state representative, who represented from 1997 to 2007 District 54 in central Texas, which encompasses Bell, Burnet, and Lampasas counties.

Suzanna Hupp was elected to her first of five consecutive terms in 1996.

Suzanna Hupp did not seek a sixth two-year term in 2006.

Suzanna Hupp has written a book, From Luby's to the Legislature: One Woman's Fight Against Gun Control, published by Privateer Publications in San Antonio, Texas.

The daughter of Alphonse "Al" and Ursula "Suzy" Kunath Gratia, Suzanna Hupp was reared in Friendswood, Texas, a city partly in Harris and Galveston counties in suburban Houston.

Suzanna Hupp has an older brother, Allan Gratia, and a younger sister, Erika.

Suzanna Hupp attended the University of Texas at El Paso and Texas Chiropractic College in Pasadena, from which she received a Doctor of Chiropractic degree in 1985.

Suzanna Hupp moved first to Houston to practice and then in 1987 to Copperas Cove in Coryell County.

Suzanna Hupp owned and operated the former Cove Physical Rehab Clinic from 1987 until 2000, when the facility was sold.

Suzanna Hupp said that had there been a second chance to prevent the slaughter, she would have violated the Texas state law and carried the handgun inside her purse into the restaurant that day.

Suzanna Hupp stated in her testimony that she would have taken a felony charge against her, rather than losing her parents through the tragedy, adding that those shouldn't be the choices and that people should be able to defend themselves in an emergency without having to choose one over another.

Suzanna Hupp testified across the country in support of concealed handgun laws and was elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 1996.

In 1998, Suzanna Hupp defeated Democrat Don Armstrong, 11,954 votes to 9,866 ballots.

Suzanna Hupp can be heard in episode 81 of This American Life giving a first-hand account of her experience in the massacre.

Suzanna Hupp is a co-founder of the Civil Liberties Defense Foundation, a non-profit legal foundation dedicated to providing educational information relating to the preservation of civil liberties guaranteed by the Bill of Rights to the United States Constitution and to providing legal services to protect those rights.

Suzanna Hupp did not seek a sixth legislative term in 2006.

Suzanna and Greg Hupp have two sons, Alexander and Ethan.