Geanie Williams Morrison | |
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Texas State Representative from District 30 (Victoria, Aransas, Calhoun, De Witt, Goliad, and Refugio counties) | |
Assumed office January 1999 |
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Preceded by | Steve Holzheauser |
Personal details | |
Born |
Victoria, Victoria County Texas, USA |
October 6, 1950
Nationality | American |
Political party | Republican |
Spouse(s) | Jack Ryberg Morrison, Jr. |
Children |
Lauri Gean Morrison Perry |
Residence | Victoria, Texas |
Alma mater | Victoria College |
Occupation | Homemaker |
Lauri Gean Morrison Perry
Geanie Williams Morrison (born October 6, 1950) is a Texas state representative from Victoria, Texas, who has been since 1999 a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 30, based in Victoria County but including as well Aransas, Calhoun, De Witt, Goliad, and Refugio counties. Victoria is located 125 miles west of Houston off U.S. Highway 59 in the southeastern portion of the state.
Victoria native Morrison is one of four children of the late Vesta and Gene Williams. She has a sister, Carol Williams of rural Prairie Lea in Caldwell County, Texas, and two brothers, Jeff Williams of Victoria and Wayne Williams of Palo Alto, California.
Morrison is a member of the Junior League of Victoria. She has served as secretary and treasurer of the Texas Conservative Coalition, a bipartisan group of lstate legislators. She is a member and former officer of the National Council of State Legislatures. She is a former executive director of the Governor's Commission for Women, a position which she held under then Governor George W. Bush.
The interest group, the Texas Community College Teachers Association once named Morrison, who attended a community college, Victoria College, as its "Legislator of the Year". In 2008, she was named "Distinguished Citizen of the Year" by the South Texas Council of the Boy Scouts of America.