Jim Dunnam

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jim Dunnam
Occupation	Lawyer
Date Of Birth	Dec 12, 1963(1963-12-12)
Age	61
Birthplace	McLennan
Country	United States
Birth City	Texas
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Jim Dunnam Biography

Jim Dunnam is one of the most popular and richest Lawyer who was born on December 12, 1963 in McLennan, Texas, United States. James Robert “Jim” Dunnam (born 12 December 1963) is an American state politician and a prominent legal practitioner from Texas. Dunnam was the only Democratic Member of the Texas House of Representatives, serving in the 57th District from 1997, the date of his election. He served from the 14th of January, 1997 until January 11, 2011. He is the grandchild of William Vance Dunnam, who was a member of the Texas House of Representatives from Coryell County in the 35th Legislature between 1917 and 1918.

Dunnam is certified as a specialist on board for civil and family court law from the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. Dunnam holds an AV Excellent Rating from Martindale Hubbell. As of 2001, Dunnam received the honor of being recognized as the Baylor Young Lawyer of the Year.

In the aftermath of the November 2008 elections in which House Democrats won 74 seats (just 2 shy of a majority), Dunnam played a pivotal role in ousting Tom Craddick as Speaker of the House and replacing him with Joe Straus. In a late November 2008 meeting of the House Democratic Caucus, Dunnam set in motion a series of events that would ultimately remove Craddick from power. He “pulled a blank sheet of paper out of his pocket, signed it and declared he’d publicly release his pledge to oppose Craddick whether the group signed the pledge or not.” This convinced sixty-one of the House Democrats to sign the one-line pledge that night, while three more signed over the next two days. The list, kept “secret until Craddick’s GOP opposition had gelled,” was sealed in an envelope and kept “locked in the desk of a trusted Democratic operative.” When it was released that Straus was the pick of a small group of Republicans known as the ABC’s (for “Anybody But Craddick”), who publicly opposed Craddick’s authoritarian reign over the House, Straus sent a consultant to retrieve the Dunnam list, and with the 13 pledges he had received from House Republicans, the Democrats’ pledges put him well over the 76 votes he needed to win the speakership.

Dunnam lost his bid for re-election in November 2010, one of the “casualties of the Republican blood bath” of the November, 2010, elections which saw Texas Democrats lose 22 seats in the Texas House as Democrats lost state legislative chambers across the county and their majority in the U.S. House of Representatives. He carried his home county of McLennan on election night while losing the other, more rural counties to political neophyte Marva Beck.

The committees he was part of included various committees throughout his career which included his Texas Supreme Court Rules Advisory Committee from 1998 to 2003 and the Texas Sunset Advisory Committee, 2001-2005, House Select Committee on Judicial Interpretation of Law, and the House Committee for Oversight of Family Law and the Texas Family Code. He was Chair of the Interim Committee on Charter Schools and The Select Committee on Federal Economic Stabilization Funding and also serving as vice-chair of the Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence.

Jim Dunnam Net Worth

Jim Dunnam is one of the richest Lawyer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jim Dunnam 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Dunnam attended Baylor University, where he obtained a business degree as an undergraduate in 1986. He also earned the J.D. degree in 1987. He was born in McLennan County in Texas, Dunnam is the child of Clyde Vance Dunnam and Elnora Eveline Hohertz. Dunnam began his career in 1988 as a part of the family’s law firm, Dunnam & Dunnam, L.L.P., which was established by his grandfather in 1925.

One of only two Democrats to beat the Republican incumbent in the elections of 1996, Dunnam arrived in Austin with the expectation of advancement. In the course of its first term, he restored budget cuts to the local university that had been made two years prior. In the course of another session, he had been hailed as an “comer” and potential top legislator. Dunnam fulfilled that expectation at the beginning of the next session. In the legislative session of 2001, Dunnam was honored as a by Texas Monthly in its list of the top ten Texas legislators due to Dunnam’s “success in the House rested on talent rather than title and [he] could do what [he was] big enough to do. Though he lacked a chairmanship or even a seat on a powerful committee, Jim Dunnam was big enough to pass two of the session’s biggest and best bills: charter-school reform and tougher restrictions on open containers of alcohol in cars.” The other issues he was able to address were public schools economic development, affordable health healthcare and health care reform, the Bosque River, higher education and the evaluation and reauthorization for the State Bar of Texas and the State Board of Law Examiners.

Dunnam was elected as the leader of the House Democratic Caucus from 2003-2011. As the first leader of a Democratic minority since Reconstruction, Dunnam was charged with shepherding a demoralized caucus through a “highly partisan House.” Even observers who disagreed with his tactics continued to recognize his abilities as a legislator. “In mastery of the legislative arts,” Texas Monthly noted in moving Dunnam from the best to worst list, he “has few peers and fewer superiors.”

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Top Facts about Jim Dunnam

1. Jim Dunnam is a Democratic politician from Texas.
2. He served in the Texas House of Representatives for 20 years.
3. Dunnam was the House Democratic Leader from 2003-2009.
4. He co-founded the Texas Legislative Study Group.
5. Dunnam has been recognized for his work on education and healthcare.
6. In 2018, he ran unsuccessfully for McLennan County Judge.
7. Dunnam is an attorney and partner at a law firm in Waco.
8. He graduated from Baylor University with a degree in political science.
9. Dunnam has been involved in numerous community organizations and initiatives.
10. He is known for his passionate advocacy on behalf of his constituents.