Tom Maynard (R)

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Personal Information

Tom Maynard is a member of the State Board of Education, representing District 10, which includes Williamson and Bell Counties and portions of Travis County on the Interstate-35 corridor and reaches to Freestone County on the northeast corner, Waller County on the southeast corner and Burnet county on the west end. Maynard serves as chair of the board's Committee on Instruction.

Maynard has been actively engaged in education as a parent, teacher, school board trustee and non-profit executive for more than 25 years. Maynard worked in career and technical education for 13 years as an agricultural science teacher and earned national recognition for innovative programs and student achievement. He currently serves as executive director of the Texas FFA Association, the nation's largest state career and technical student organization with an overall membership of more than 102,000 students on more than 1,000 Texas campuses.

Under his leadership, Texas FFA has set numerous records for membership, student engagement and scholarship dollars awarded. He is the Texas FFA’s longest serving chief executive in the organization’s 85-year history and has earned a national reputation for implementing innovative technology solutions to overcome issues created by limited staffing.

Maynard also comes to the State Board with fine arts experience. He has led church music programs as a choir director and worship leader for 17 years. He and his wife Freda also operate a real estate appraisal firm and a small purebred livestock operation that leverages reproductive technologies such as embryo transfer.

The product of a broken home, Maynard rose above humble circumstances, growing up at Cal Farley's Boys Ranch, northwest of Amarillo, and working his way through Texas Tech University to earn a degree and teacher certification. He served as a school board trustee for six years, as president of the Cal Farley’s Boys Ranch Alumni Association and western region vice president of the National Association of Supervisors of Agricultural Education. He currently serves on the Texas FFA Foundation Board of Directors.

He and Freda have five children and four grandchildren and reside in Williamson County.

Maynard believes in accountability, transparency, local control and in a parent’s right to direct the education of their child. He believes that our curriculum should be challenging and factual, created with input from stakeholders and designed to prepare our students to succeed in post-secondary education, thrive in a competitive free market economy and function effectively as citizens and community leaders. He is committed to protecting the Permanent School Fund and revitalizing the workforce development component of public education.

District 10 includes the counties of Austin, Bastrop, Bell, Burleson, Burnet, Falls, Fayette, Freestone, Lee, Leon, Limestone, Madison, Milam, Robertson, Waller, Washington, Williamson and part of Travis.

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Contact and Phone Numbers

P.O. Box 625
Florence, TX 76527
(512) 763-2801
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