State Representative Lois Kolkhorst (third from left), running for Senate District 18, pictured with CCRC Treasurer Anna Whitcomb-Goodman, candidate for Calhoun County Clerk, Calhoun County Republican Chairman Russell Cain, CCRC President Larry Robinson and Jack Wu, Vice President of Formosa Plastics at the Calhoun County Republican Club meeting.
State Representative Lois Kolkhorst will run for Senate District 18 assuming Senator Glenn Hegar wins the comptroller’s race in November and a special election is called. She spoke to the Calhoun County Republican Club on Monday, October 6, 2014, regarding transparency in government, immigration, the sunset commission, public health bills, TWETA (Windstorm) and immigration. She said of her intentions to run for Hegar’s seat, “After prayer and consideration with my husband Jim and our two children Lois Kate and Jake, we decided the issues facing Texas are too big to ignore.” Kolkhorst, who has represented House District 13 since 2001, chairs the lower chamber’s Public Health Committee.
The speaker for the November 3, 2014, meeting will be David Holford. David is an immigration attorney and he will present his unique and thought-provoking perspective on immigration.
David received his undergraduate education at Emmanual Christian Institute with additional work at Angelo State University, attended graduate school at the University of Arkansas and studied international law in London through the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law while a student at Indiana University School of Law at Indianapolis. He received his Law Degree in 1993 and was admitted to the Indiana Bar the same year. In 1999 he relocated to the United Kingdom. He earned a post-graduate Certificate in education from the university of Gloucestershire and taught history and religious education at the secondary level and theology and philosophy at the post-secondary level.
David moved back to the United States in 2011 and practices law solely in the area of immigration. He serves as Associate Pastor at the Christ Community Church in Port Lavaca, as secretary of the Calhoun County Ministerial Alliance and is on the Board of Directors of the Calhoun County Community Ministries. He and his wife Kelly have two school-aged children.
Republican Club meets at Grace Episcopal Church, Port Lavaca, at 6:00 p.m. November 3.
