Patricia Fincher Harless | |
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Texas State Representative for District 126 (Harris County) |
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In office January 9, 2007 – January 9, 2017 |
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Preceded by | Peggy Hamric |
Succeeded by | Kevin Roberts |
Personal details | |
Born |
Houston, Texas, USA |
November 13, 1963
Nationality | American |
Political party | Republican |
Spouse(s) | Sam Harless |
Children | Samuel Justin Harless |
Residence | Spring, Harris County, Texas |
Alma mater |
Candlestick Christian Academy |
Occupation | Automobile dealer |
Religion | Southern Baptist |
Candlestick Christian Academy
Patricia Fincher Harless (born November 13, 1963) is a former member of the Texas House of Representatives for Spring, a suburb of her native Houston. She represented District 126 in northwestern Harris County from 2007 until 2017 with relatively little electoral opposition.
Harless was unopposed for her fifth term in the state House in the November 4, 2014 general election.
A fourth-generation Texan, Harless attended public school in the Spring Independent School District but graduated from the private Candlestick Christian Academy. In 1995, she received a Bachelor of Science in Business Management from the private LeTourneau University in Longview in East Texas.
Harless is the chief executive officer of Fred Fincher Motors, an independent dealership at 4700 Tomball Parkway in Houston. She is active in a plethora of civic groups, such as the Chamber of Commerce, the American Heart Association, the 100 Club of Houston, the , and the Lone Star College System Foundation, a community college network in northwestern Harris County. In 1998, then Governor George W. Bush appointed Harless to the Texas Motor Vehicle Board; Bush's successor, Rick Perry reappointed her, and she remained in that post until 2005.