ERIN SHank

Erin is a former teacher, wife of a veteran, a mom of three, a disability advocate, and a small business owner. After finishing law school, she became a bankruptcy attorney and has helped more than 6,000 Central Texans over the past 40 years during some of the most difficult times in their lives. She knows how to listen to folks, understand their issues, and then fight for them in Court.

Erin is running for the Texas House because she believes we need a leader that is invested in our community. A leader that is energized and ready to get the job done. 

Erin will work to permanently lower our property taxes and bring our tax dollars back to McLennan County.
She will fight to fully fund our public schools and fight against the harmful voucher scam. 

Erin believes that Texans living with a disability receive the same rights, protections, and freedoms as everyone else.

She will also focus on creating an energy system that can support the ninth largest economy in the world and help lower rising utility bills as Texans face the reality of climate change and the impact extreme temperatures and weather are having on our community and state.

Like all Texans, Erin sees regular news reports of the political and humanitarian crisis on our Southern border. She will work across the aisle to revise our immigration laws to address the need to find real solutions to both secure our border and deal with the immigrants that approach our border every day.

Erin lives in Waco, Texas with her husband, John, and daughter, Rachel. She has two sons, Paul and Billy, and has served Central Texans as a bankruptcy lawyer for 40 years. She maintains two small businesses and is an actively involved citizen in multiple organizations across McLennan County.