Contact: Monty Jones, (512) 499-4363

Date: August 2003

Biography: Amy Shaw Thomas

Assistant Vice Chancellor for Governmental Relations and Health Affairs

Amy Shaw Thomas
Office of Governmental Relations
The University of Texas System
Claudia Taylor Johnson Building 1st Floor
Austin, Texas 78701
tel: 512/499-4257
fax: 512/499-4259

Amy Shaw Thomas is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of U.T. Austin, with a bachelor of arts degree in government with special honors. She is also a graduate of the University of Texas School of Law. She previously worked as legislative counsel and director of debt management and public policy for Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison when she was Texas state treasurer. Her extensive legislative, legal, and public policy experience includes an internship with Senator Lloyd Bentsen in Washington, D.C., and service as a legislative aide to two members of the Texas Senate. Amy previously practiced public finance and general governmental law with the firms Hutchison, Price, Boyle & Brooks and Wickliff & Hall, representing local and state governmental entities, including cites, counties, school districts, state agencies, and institutions of higher education. Shaw Thomas joined the University of Texas System Office of Governmental Relations in January 1997.