Lake Travis Republican Club April 2024 Meeting

April’s speaker is Steve Munisteri, Senior Advisor to Governor Gregg Abbott.  He is an American attorney who served as the chairman of the Republican Party of Texas from 2010 to 2015. In 2017, Munisteri was appointed to the White House staff as deputy assistant to the president and principal deputy director of the Office of Public Liaison.

Munisteri was elected chairman at the state convention held in Dallas on June 13, 2010, when he unseated Cathie Adams, the wife of a Dallas chiropractor, who had held the position for only eight months.  He is the first challenger in modern Texas Republican history to defeat a sitting incumbent for the position of state chairman. Early in his political career, Munisteri served as state chairman of the Texas Chapter of Young Americans for Freedom and founded the Young Conservatives of Texas (YCT) in 1980.  Munisteri stepped down as party chairman to join U.S. Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky as a senior advisor to Paul's 2016 presidential campaign.

Munisteri received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Texas at Austin and a Doctor of Jurisprudence from the UT Law School, completing both degrees in five, instead of seven, years.

Beginning in 2017, Munisteri served as deputy assistant to the president and deputy director for the Office of Public Liaison in Trump administration.  He left the Trump administration in 2019 to help run the 2020 re-election campaign of Texas senator John Cornyn.

In December 2020, Munisteri joined the office of Governor Greg Abbott as senior adviser and policy director.