Jim Keffer

Who is Jim Keffer?

James Lloyd "Jim" Keffer is a businessman from Eastland, Texas, who is a current Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 60, which includes Eastland County located east of Abilene, as well as Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Shackelford, Stephens Palo Pinto, and Hood counties.

Keffer was born in San Angelo in Tom Green County in West Texas. A lifelong Republican, Keffer is a former Eastland County GOP chairman. A graduate of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Keffer is president of EBAA Iron Sales in Eastland. He was initially elected to the House in 1996. As of 2013, he was the chairman of the House Committee on Energy Resources and a member of the Natural Resources and Redistricting committees. Keffer previously served as chairman of the House Ways and Means and Economic Development Committee.

Early in 2009, Keffer joined a small group of Republicans, including Jim Pitts of Waxahachie, Byron Cook of Eastland, and Burt Solomons of Carrollton, who voted with the Democrats to topple Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives Tom Craddick of Midland and replace him with Moderate Republican Joe Straus of San Antonio.

In 2011, Texas Monthly magazine named Keffer one of the "Top Ten Legislators" in the state. In 2010, he co-founded the "Debt Busters Program" for the Texas Republican Party, an endeavor that brought solvency to party coffers under the administration of GOP state chairman Steve Munisteri.