Nelson Wolff
| Nelson Wolff | |
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| Bexar County Judge | |
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Assumed office 2001 |
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| Preceded by | Cyndi Taylor Krier |
| Mayor of San Antonio | |
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In office June 1, 1991 – June 1, 1995 |
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| Preceded by | Lila Cockrell |
| Succeeded by | Bill Thornton |
| San Antonio City Council | |
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In office 1987–1991 |
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| Constituency | 8th District |
| Member of the Texas Senate from the 26th district | |
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In office 1973–1975 |
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| Texas House of Representatives from Bexar County, Texas | |
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In office 1971–1973 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | 27 October 1940 |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse(s) | Melinda Wolff (1961-1988) Tracy Hoag (1989-present) |
| Children | Kevin Lyn Marie Scott Matthew |
| Residence | San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas |
| Alma mater | St. Mary's University School of Law |
| Occupation | Lawyer and county judge |
Nelson William Wolff (born 27 October 1940) is a Democratic politician from San Antonio, Texas. He represented Bexar County in the Texas House of Representatives from 1971 to 1973 and then the Texas Senate from 1973 to 1975. He served on the San Antonio City Council as the representative of District 8 and then as mayor of San Antonio from 1991 to 1995 and has been since 2001 the Bexar County Judge.
Wolff was initially appointed to this current position in 2001 to succeed Cyndi Taylor Krier, a Republican, who resigned to accept an appointment from then Governor Rick Perry as a regent of the University of Texas System. Wolff has since been elected to this position three times. In January 2012, he announced that he would seek a fourth full term in 2014. He defeated in the general election the Republican candidate, Carlton L. Soules, a former member of the San Antonio City Council from the North Side. Known as a "budget hawk" while on the council, Soules since entered into an alliance with the 2017 San Antonio mayoral candidate Manuel Medina, the chairman of the Bexar County Democratic Party organization. The two had opposed a defunct a downtown street car project, which they considered a "boondoggle."
Wolff is only the second person to serve as both San Antonio mayor and county judge of Bexar County. (The first was Bryan Callaghan, Jr., who became mayor in 1885 and county judge in 1892.)
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