Bill Text: TX HCR140 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Congratulating Cody C. Campbell on his election as chair of the Texas Tech University System Board of Regents.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)
Status: (Passed) 2025-06-20 - Signed by the Governor [HCR140 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HCR140-Enrolled.html
| H.C.R. No. 140 | ||
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| WHEREAS, Cody C. Campbell was elected chair of the Texas Tech | ||
| University System Board of Regents on April 14, 2025; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Mr. Campbell was appointed to the board of regents | ||
| by Governor Greg Abbott in April 2021, and over the course of his | ||
| tenure, he has also served as vice chair of its Finance & | ||
| Investments Committee, as well as of the Carr Foundation Board of | ||
| Trustees; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Bringing to his position a wealth of knowledge and | ||
| experience, Mr. Campbell previously served on the Texas Higher | ||
| Education Coordinating Board and the Texas Tech University Rawls | ||
| College of Business Advisory Council; moreover, he cofounded and is | ||
| a board member of the Matador Club, and he further gives generously | ||
| of his time and talents to the boards of a number of other worthy | ||
| organizations, including the Texas Public Policy Foundation and All | ||
| Saints' Episcopal School of Fort Worth; and | ||
| WHEREAS, A fourth-generation Red Raider, Mr. Campbell holds | ||
| bachelor's degrees in finance and economics and a master's degree in | ||
| finance from Texas Tech, where he was a four-year letterman on the | ||
| offensive line for the football team from 2001 to 2004, and he went | ||
| on to spend two seasons in the National Football League with the | ||
| Indianapolis Colts; currently, he is co-chief executive officer of | ||
| Double Eagle Energy Holdings, a Fort Worth-based upstream | ||
| exploration and production company that he helped to establish, and | ||
| he also is the president and a board member of Double Eagle | ||
| Charities; and | ||
| WHEREAS, In taking on this new challenge, Cody Campbell has | ||
| demonstrated a profound commitment to advancing the important goals | ||
| of one of the largest systems of higher education in the Lone Star | ||
| State; now, therefore, be it | ||
| RESOLVED, That the 89th Legislature of the State of Texas | ||
| hereby congratulate Cody C. Campbell on his election as chair of the | ||
| Texas Tech University System Board of Regents and extend to him | ||
| sincere best wishes for a successful tenure; and, be it further | ||
| RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be | ||
| prepared for Mr. Campbell as an expression of high regard by the | ||
| Texas House of Representatives and Senate. | ||
| Craddick | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.C.R. No. 140 was adopted by the House on May | ||
| 23, 2025, by a non-record vote. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.C.R. No. 140 was adopted by the Senate on May | ||
| 26, 2025, by a viva-voce vote. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
