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JULY 2016

RON KIRK

Personal Life: Ron Kirk was the youngest of four children born on June 27, 1954 in Austin, Texas. His family was very politically active.  He grew up in a predominantly black community and attended Austin’s public schools.  He was a leader in high school, and was elected student council president in his senior year at John H. Reagan High School.

Once graduating from high school, Kirk attended Austin College and graduated with a degree in political science and sociology in 1976. He then went to the University of Texas School of Law receiving his Juris Doctor in 1979.  Kirk practiced law until 1981 when he left to work in the office of then-Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen. In 1983, Kirk returned to Texas to lobby the state legislature in Austin, first as an attorney with the city of Dallas, and later with a law firm.  Kirk is married to Matrice Ellis and has two daughters.
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Political Career: In 1994, Kirk was appointed as the Secretary of State of Texas for then Texas Governor Ann Richards. In 1995, he ran for mayor of Dallas and was successful in his bid.  Kirk became the first African American mayor of Dallas, Texas.  Kirk was re-elected as mayor of Dallas in 1999. During his tenure as mayor, Kirk earned the reputation of being a coalition-builder, managing to keep the always-tumultuous Dallas City Council and Dallas School Board together. Under his leadership, he proposed the “Dallas Plan”, a vision for the next 25 years, which included the controversial Trinity River Project, a $246 million plan that called for constructing a network of parks and highways in the flood plain of the Trinity River. He also pushed the construction of the American Airlines Center, whose opening he oversaw in 2002.  In 2001, Kirk resigned as mayor of Dallas in order to run for the Senate seat vacated by retiring Republican Phil Gramm. Unfortunately, Kirk was not elected into office.

Later Years: Although Kirk wasn’t elected into the Senate seat, he returned to the law firm of Gardere Wynne Sewell in Dallas. He was briefly a candidate for chairman of the Democratic National Committee after the 2004 election. Later he was a partner with the Houston-based law firm Vinson and Elkins, where, according to Texans for Public Justice, he was, as of March 2007, one of the four highest paid lobbyists for Energy Future Holdings Corporation. During the Democratic National Convention, Kirk came out in favor of establishing the U.S. Public Service Academy as a civilian counterpart to the military service academies.

Kirk was nominated by President Barack Obama to serve as U.S. Trade Rep and on March 18, 2009, and was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in a 92–5 confirmation vote. Kirk receives the formal title of Ambassador and is a member of the President’s Cabinet.  On January 22, 2013, Kirk announced that he would be stepping down as U.S. Trade Rep.