Susan Combs
Susan Combs is a successful, experienced executive at both the state and federal level. She has 16 years of statewide leadership in Texas, providing strategic and innovative management, as well as nearly three years at the U.S. Department of the Interior in executive management. At Interior, Combs was the Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management and Budget, and Chief Financial Officer.
Most recently Combs served as the Chair of the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission, which was created by Congress, to celebrate the19th Amendment centennial nationally in August 2020. Combs is presently a Fellow at the University of Texas Center for Identity where she is working to assist on matters relating to personal data privacy.
In Texas Combs served in elected positions between 1993 and 2015. Combs served as the state’s Comptroller from 2007 to 2015. Combs was the first woman Agriculture commissioner and served from 1998 to 2007. Combs was a state legislator from 1993 to 1996 with a proven record of writing and passing landmark legislation. As head of two state agencies, she streamlined operations, ensuring more efficient and cost-effective programs, and received national recognition. Her articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The Hill, the Austin American-Statesman, the San Antonio Express-News, the Houston Chronicle among others. Combs also launched a women's empowerment organization in 2015 and has long had an interest in promoting women to leadership roles.
Combs is the manager and owner of a more than 130-year-old family ranching and hunting and grazing management operation in West Texas for more than 40 years.
