Descriptive Summary
Krier, Cyndi
Taylor
Cyndi Taylor Krier
Papers
1956-2002
(bulk
1993-2001)Materials are in
English.
MS 93
176.4 linear feet (177 boxes)
Archives and Special
Collections, Library, The University of Texas at
San Antonio.
Cyndi Taylor
Krier represented Bexar County in the Texas Senate for two terms from 1984
through 1992. In 1992, Krier was the first woman and first Republican elected
as Bexar County Judge.
The Cyndi
Taylor Krier Papers consist of correspondence, awards, subject files, working
files, campaign materials, fundraising materials, photographs, newspaper
clippings, telephone and mail logs, speeches, daily schedules and
scrapbooks.
Biographical Note
The Honorable Cyndi Taylor Krier was born on July 12, 1950 in
Beeville, Texas to Robert Stevens Taylor and Mary McGuffin Taylor. Her parents
divorced when she was eight years old, and she and her mother moved to Dinero,
Texas, where they remained until her grandmother’s death. Krier was an honor
student in high school and played basketball, learning teamwork skills that
served her in her political career.
In college at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, Krier worked
on the Richard Nixon campaign. She transferred to The University of Texas at
Austin to major in journalism, and continued her campaign work for Republican
candidates. While in Austin, she met her future husband Joseph Krier. After
graduating in 1971, Cyndi Krier went to work for the Republican Party of Texas
and edited a statewide newsletter, before returning to law school.
During the height of the Watergate scandal in the summer of 1974,
Krier served as an intern in the White House. She returned to Texas and
graduated in 1975. After graduation she worked for Senator John Tower, and on
Gerald Ford’s 1976 election campaign. In April of 1979 she began working for
the law firm of Lang, Lado, Green, Coghlan & Fischer, specializing in civil
cases. Her commitment to Republican politics remained strong, and she actively
recruited women into the political process. She continued her involvement in
Republican Party politics, serving as vice-chair of the Bexar County party from
1979 to 1981. She also served on a bipartisan commission to propose legislative
reforms for the Texas Election Code and on a Governor’s task force for Women
and Minorities.
In 1984 Cyndi Krier filed to run for the Texas 26th Senatorial
District. To women in San Antonio, she was the woman candidate who would beat
incumbent Senator Bob Vale and bring a woman’s voice to the Texas Senate. Her
campaign appealed to women from both the Republican and Democratic parties, and
her theme was “A Senator We Can Be Proud Of.” She won the election on November
6, 1984. This was noteworthy because she was the first woman and the first
Republican to represent San Antonio in the Texas Senate, and she was the sole
woman senator during her initial session. During this session, Krier worked
hard for revision of state laws dealing with child abuse and family
violence.
In 1988 Krier was elected again and continued her concentration on
family violence. In 1992 Republicans encouraged her to run for a judgeship in Bexar County, and as a firm believer in term limits and seeing her
diminishing effectiveness in the senate due to elections of a more conservative
group of senators, Krier ran and won the position of county judge. She again
made history by becoming both the first woman judge in Bexar County history and
the first Republican judge in their modern history. The building of a new
county jail, child abuse, family violence, and child support remained priority
issues for her during her service as judge.
In the summer of 2001 Cyndi Taylor Krier retired as county judge, and
on August 28, 2001, she became the vice president for Texas governmental
relations for the insurance company USAA. As Vice-President, she is responsible
for leading USAA's involvement in legislative and public policy issues in Texas
at the State and local levels. Also in 2001, Cyndi Taylor Krier was appointed
to a six-year term on The University of Texas System Board of Regents by
Governor Rick Perry. Krier served as Vice-Chairman of the Board and Chairman of
the Academic Affairs Committee; a member of the Audit, Compliance, and
Management Review Committee; the Finance and Planning Committee; and the Health
Affairs Committee and as a Regental representative to the Board for Lease of
University Lands which oversees the terms of lease of University lands for oil
and gas exploration and development. She served as Co-Chairman of the Task
Force on Planning and also led the Accountability, Collaboration, and
Deregulation Task Force.
Excerpted from:
Cyndi Taylor Krier From Statehouse to
Courthouse, Ann Fears Crawford and Crystal Sasse Ragsdale. State House
Press, Austin, Texas, 1998, pp. 295-307.
Chronology of events in Cyndi Taylor Krier's
life
12 July 1950
Born in Beeville, TX
1971
graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a major
in journalism
1972-73
assistant to Beryl Milburn, vice-chair of Republican
Party
1974
White House intern during Watergate; worked for Anne
Armstrong
1975
graduated from University of Texas School of Law
1976
worked for President Ford's campaign
1978
worked for Senator John Tower's election campaign in
Houston
1979
begin working at Lang, Lado, Green and Coghlan law
firm
1981
Governor's Task Force for Women and Minorities; Candidate
Recruitment Committee for Bexar County Republican Party
1984
elected Senator from the Texas 26th Senatorial
District
1988
re-elected to Texas State Senate
1992
ran for district judgeship in Bexar County
8 December 1992
took oath of office as county judge
1993
trip to Russia to observe elections
2001
retired as Bexar County Judge; began working at USAA; became
regent for University of Texas System
2007
term as University of Texas regent ended
Scope and Content Note
The Cyndi Taylor Krier Papers, 1956-2002, document the early life and
career of a Texan woman in politics. The collection consists of correspondence,
awards, subject files, working files, campaign materials, fundraising
materials, photographs, newspaper clippings, telephone and mail logs, speeches,
daily schedules and scrapbooks reflecting her professional life as a lawyer,
Texas State Senator and Bexar County Judge. The materials are arranged in four
series: Personal, State
Senator, County Judge andAddition of October 2005.
Materials in the Personal series include a
brief glimpse into Cyndi Taylor Krier’s family life, her career in politics and
the law, and her personal and political interests. The State Senator series (1984-1992) includes materials about
Krier’s campaign and fundraising activities and documents that reflect her work
as a Senator. The County Judge series (1993-2001)
includes materials that reflect Krier’s day-to-day work and those related to
her campaign efforts in the race for Bexar County Judge. The Addition of October 2005 consists of Board of Regents records from 2001-2002 on which Cyndi Taylor Krier was a member and newsletters pulled from UTSA Archive's vertical files that were added to the accession spanning the years 1993-1999.
Arrangement
Due to size, this inventory has been divided into
4 separate units which can be accessed by clicking on the following
links:
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Series 1. Personal
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Series 2. State Senator
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Series 3. County Judge
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Oversize Materials [this page]
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Series 4. Addition of October 2005 (Accession 2005-081) [this page]
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research except when otherwise noted.
Usage Restrictions
Please contact Archives and Special Collections, Library, University
of Texas at San Antonio for information about permission to publish material
from the collection.
Researchers are required to wear gloves provided by the Archives when
reviewing photographic materials.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Cyndi Taylor Krier Papers, 1956-2002, MS 93,
Archives and Special Collections, Library, University of Texas at San
Antonio.
Acquisition Information
Collections materials were donated by Cyndi Taylor Krier in 1999,
2000, 2001, 2003, and 2005 (Accessions: 1999-037, 2000-003, 2001-12, 2001-015,
2001-020, 2001-023, 2003-078, 2003-079, 2005-081).
Processing Information
Processed by: Gerrianne Schaad, Megan Robida and Staff, September
2005.
Encoded by: Mat Martin, Collections Assistant, April 2007 and Nikki
Lynn Thomas, Manuscripts Archivist, October 2007
Addition encoded by: Tatina Wulzer, Collections Assistant, May 2009.
Related Material
Texas Women's Alliance Records, MS 11, Archives and Special
Collections, University of Texas at San Antonio -
[http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utsa/00084/utsa-00084.html]
The Cynthia T. Krier commercials collection is located at the
Political Commercial Archive, Department of Communication, University of
Oklahoma -
[http://www.ou.edu/pccenter/aboutthearchive.htm]
Index Terms
Persons
Krier, Cyndi Taylor,
1950-
Organizations
Camp
WannameetaGOP
Matthews and
Branscomb
Philosophical Society of
Texas
Republication Party
(Tex.)
Texas. Legislature.
Senate.
University of Texas.
Board of Regents.
University of Texas at
Austin
Subjects
Campaign funds--United
States.
Conservatism--Texas.
County
government--Texas--Bexar County.
Judges--Elections--Texas.
Legislators--United
States--Biography.
Political
campaigns--Texas.
Political
candidates--Texas.
Politicians--United
States--Texas.
Women--political
activity--Texas--Bexar County.
Women in
politics--Texas.
Women judges--Texas--Bexar
County.
Women lawyers--Texas--Bexar
County.
Women legislators--United
States.
Women political
candidates--United States.
Women
politicians--Texas.
Locations
Bexar County
(Tex.)
San Antonio
(Tex.)
Texas--politics and
government--1951-
Genres/Formats
Announcements.
Awards.
Budgets.
Clippings.
Correspondence.
Invitations.
Logs
(records).
Mailing lists.
Minutes.
Pamphlets.
Photographs.
Political
posters.
Press
releases.
Promotional
materials.
Schedules (time
plans).
Scrapbooks.
Speeches.
Detailed Description of the Collection
Oversize materials
Personal series
Awards and
Recognition
OM3-OM5
Awards and Recognition: Plaques
Biographical
OM1
Article about Krier,
Sunday Magazine,
San Antonio Express-News,
April 26, 1987
47
Article about Krier,
San Antonio Light,
1979
Career
Washington,
DC
OM1
Newspapers,
August 1974
Family and
friends
Joe Krier
OM2
Campaign: Scrapbook,
1981-1982
Personal and political
interests
Camp
Wannameetagop
OM2
Photo album,
1979-1983
Russia trip
OM1
Memorabilia: Poster
State Senator
series
Campaign 1984
47
Campaign Mock-up Materials, undated
OM1
News clippings,
1984
47
Krier vs. Vale, Opponent information graphs, re:
fundraising and absenteeism
Office Administrative
Files
Photographs
OM1
Assorted color photographs
OM1
Assorted black and white photographs
County Judge
Campaign 1992
47
Candidate comparison posters, Krier vs. Adkisson,
undated
Addition of October 2005 (Accession 2005-081) 1 1 UT Academic Affairs Retreat - Port Aransas, April 16-17, 2002
1 2 UT Board of Regents Committee, April 1-2, 2002
1 3 Materials for UT Board of Regents meeting, February 13-14, 2002
1 4 UT Board of Regents, January 9, 2002
1 5 UT Board of Regents, December 18, 2001
1 6 UT System Board of Regents Task Force on Accountability, Collaboration and Deregulation, 2001
1 7-8 UT Academic Affairs Committee meeting, January 2002
1 9 Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Seminar For New Regents, November 27, 2001
1 10 UT Board of Regents Backup For Tyler, November 7-8, 2001
1 11 Agenda Book of the Board of Regents meeting number 945, November 7-8, 2001
1 12 UT Board of Regents Committee meeting, October 2001
2 1-2 UT Board of Regents Committee meeting, October 2001
2 3 UT Board of Regents meeting (Arlington), August 8-9, 2001
2 4 A Continuing Commitment Access and Opportunity in The University of Texas System, undated
2 5 Materials Supporting the Board of Regents, meeting number 943 (Arlington, Texas), August 8-9, 2001
2 6 Board of Regents - financial, 2001-2002
2 8-9 Board of Regents, 2001
2 10 UT Board of Regents Committee meeting (Austin), July 2001
2 11 UT Board of Regents meeting, June 27, 2001
2 12 UT Board of Regents meeting, April 30, 2001
2 13 Chancellor's Docket Number 105, 2001
2 14 UT meeting of Board of Regents, May 2001
2 15 UT Board of Regents committee meeting agenda, April 10, 2001
2 16 Special called meeting UT Board of Regents, December 12, 2002
2 17 UT Board of Regents Special Board meeting and UTB/TSC partnership meeting, December 13, 2002
3 1-3 Agenda Book of the Board of Regents meeting number 958, November 12-13, 2002
3 4 UT Board of Regents meetings, October 1-2, 2002
3 5 UT Board of Regents meeting, September 21, 2002
3 6 UT Board of Regents meeting (El Paso), August 7-8, 2002
3 7 UT Board of Regents meeting (Austin, Texas), May 8-9, 2002
3 8 Elephant Prints, The Bright Sawl and Today newsletters, 1993-1999
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