DYLAN MATTHEWS

Dylan has served in several high-level legislative capacities during his public service career, including Committee Director and General Counsel for the Texas House Committee on Transportation, Committee Counsel for the Texas Senate Committee on Health & Human Services, and Chief of Staff for a Texas State Representative. Additionally, he served as lead staff member for a legislator serving on the Texas Sunset Advisory Commission, providing analysis on a broad range of regulatory and policy issues for the commission during its statutorily mandated performance review of dozens of Texas state agencies. In addition to his diverse legislative career, Dylan has also worked as a practicing attorney at a leading civil litigation firm in Houston, where he honed his advocacy and mediation skills.

Dylan was born and raised in the Texas Lower Rio Grande Valley and had the honor of being selected as a legislative fellow for the Mexican American Legislative Caucus in 2013. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Government from the University of Texas at Austin and his law degree from South Texas College of Law in Houston, where he received the top grade in his legal writing courses and had the unique accomplishment of passing the Texas Bar Exam prior to finishing law school. Dylan and his wife, Laura, an elementary school teacher, live in Round Rock with their daughter, Claire.