Wednesday, July 27th, San Augustine Chamber of Commerce to host Senator Robert Nichols at 10:00 am for a Meet and Greet.
The Chamber Workplace is positioned on Columbia Road. Nichols signifies Sabine, San Augustine, Shelby, Angelina, and Jasper Counties, just to title a couple of of the 19 East Texas counties.
1st elected to the Texas Senate in 2006, Robert Nichols represents 19 counties together with the greater component of East Texas and Montgomery County.
In the Texas Senate, Nichols at the moment serves as Chairman of the Senate Transportation Committee. Senator Nichols also serves on the Finance, Business and Commerce, Felony Justice, Community Authorities and the Pick out Redistricting Committees. He is a member of the Texas Judicial Range Fee, the Legislative Audit Committee and a previous Vice-Chair of the Sunset Advisory Fee.
For the duration of his 8 sessions as a condition senator, Nichols authored and passed laws to protect landowners’ legal rights, improve educational possibilities in East Texas and reform transportation policies. He has also labored to reduce Medicaid fraud and endorse no cost-market principles. He was designated as a Best Legislator by Texas Insider, a Winner of Free of charge Company by the Texas Association of Small business, a Courageous Conservative by the Texas Conservative Coalition, and a Top rated 10 Finest Legislator for the 85th Legislative Session by Texas Regular monthly Journal.
Ahead of working for Senate, Nichols served as transportation commissioner for eight several years where he founded a name for rising efficiency without having compromising quality.
Nichols is a businessman from Jacksonville, Texas. In his hometown he served on town council, was elected mayor, constructed 4 successful production facilities, gained 32 U.S. patents and 128 international patents, as perfectly as developing far more than 900 work for East Texas households.
Performing his way via university by providing fireworks and ironing garments for other students, Nichols gained a bachelor’s degree from Lamar University in 1968. He married his…