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Robert Eckels is a lawyer and businessman who served as the County Judge of Harris County, Texas from 1995 to 2007. He is currently the President and CEO of the Texas A&M University System. Eckels was born in Houston, Texas, and graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1979 with a degree in government. He then attended the University of Houston Law Center, where he earned his Juris Doctor in 1982. Eckels began his career in public service in 1983, when he was appointed as an Assistant County Attorney for Harris County. He then served as the Chief of Staff for Harris County Judge Jon Lindsay from 1985 to 1987. In 1987, he was appointed as the Harris County Commissioner for Precinct 4, a position he held until 1995. In 1995, Eckels was elected as the County Judge of Harris County, a position he held until 2007. During his tenure, he was responsible for the construction of Reliant Stadium, the expansion of the Houston Ship Channel, and the development of the Houston Metro light rail system. In 2007, Eckels was appointed as the President and CEO of the Texas A&M University System, a position he still holds today. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Houston Airport System, the Houston-Galveston Area Council, and the Texas A&M Foundation. As of 2021, Robert Eckels's net worth is estimated to be roughly $2 million.

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Occupation Lawyer and businessman
Age 67 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 14 March 1957
Birthday 14 March
Birthplace Houston, Texas, United States
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2006

In 2006, Eckels was actually elected to a fourth term as county judge but left some four months later to enter the private sector. Commissioners named transportation consultant and former state Representative Ed Emmett of Kingwood in northeast Houston to succeed Eckels as county judge.

2005

As county judge, Eckels also chaired the Harris County Toll Road Authority, the only county-owned toll road system in the United States. Judge Eckels received international recognition for the response by Harris County to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The Astrodome and Reliant Park became the largest shelter operation in American history, with more than 250,000 residents given refuge during the storm. In 2005, Esquire named Eckels the "Best and Brightest - Citizen of the Year" for his leadership during the storms: "When the City of New Orleans evacuated to Houston, Harris County Judge Robert Eckels was an island of competence in the face of catastrophe." The American City and County Magazine named Eckels "County Leader of the Year 2006."

1996

Lindsay himself rebounded politically to win election in 1996 to the District 7 seat in the Texas State Senate.

1994

Upon leaving the house, Eckels began a twelve-year stint as the county judge of the most populous county in Texas. He succeeded the 20-year incumbent, Moderate Republican Jon Lindsay, who caught up in scandal did not run again for county judge. Lindsay and the senior Eckels had been colleagues and occasional rivals on the commissioners court. However, Lindsay supported the younger Eckels for county judge in 1994, when Eckels defeated the Democrat Vince Ryan (born c. 1947).

1992

In his last general election for the legislature in 1992, Eckels had no Democratic opponent but defeated Clyde Garland, nominee of the Libertarian Party, 39,518 votes (88 percent) to 5,413 (12 percent). Eckels was succeeded in the House in 1995 by the Houston lawyer Joe Nixon, a Republican who also served District 133 for six terms.

1984

The senior Eckels had close political ties with Vice President George Herbert Walker Bush. In 1984, while his son was a first-term legislator, Commissioner Eckels turned the Harris County government into a virtual arm of the Reagan-Bush re-election campaign. He used county telephones, computers, and employees to establish an organization called the National Conference of Republican County Officials. An official in Roanoke County, Virginia, said that the conference was "a working arm for the White House and the national [Republican] Party." Eckels later said that he had used at least $20,000 of his own funds for Reagan-Bush mailings and did not report the expenditure to the Federal Election Commission. Eckels died less than a year after Bush became the U.S. President. The seventeen-year commissioner was convicted of theft and forced to resign. For a number of years his name was synonymous with political corruption in the Houston area.

1982

In 1982 at the age of twenty-five, Eckels was elected to the first of his six terms in the House. At the time Bill Clements, the first Republican governor of Texas since Reconstruction, was simultaneously unseated by the Democrat Mark White, then the state attorney general. Eckels did not seek a seventh term in 1994, when George W. Bush was elected governor. He represented the newly numbered House District 133 in Harris County.

1972

Eckels' father, Robert Young "Bob" Eckels, Jr., was a trustee of the Houston Independent School District who in 1972 was elected the Precinct 3 county commissioner, a position that he filled until shortly before his death on Christmas Eve in 1989. As commissioner, the senior Eckels was accused of having tapped his office telephones, mail fraud, and theft of timber used on county bridge construction. In 1987, he pleaded no contest to charges that he had accepted from a county contractor the construction of a road on his farm in Austin County within the Houston metropolitan district. Eckels told The Houston Chronicle that his father "played the [political] game by their rules. The world has moved."

1957

Robert Allen Eckels (born March 14, 1957) is a lawyer and businessman from his native Houston, Texas, who was from 1983 to 1995 a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives and from 1995 to 2007 the county judge of Harris County.

His wife, the former Jet Winkley (born c. 1957), was a lobbyist for the Metropolitan Transit Authority while she and Eckels were engaged and he was a state legislator. Eckels said that because of their relationship he avoided sponsoring transit authority bills. The couple has a daughter, Kirby Eckels.

1931

Eckels' uncle, Paul Glenn "Buck" Eckels, Sr. (1931-2011), for many years owned the Lawyers Title Insurance Company of Houston.