Senator, Texas State Senate, District 1, 2017-present

Candidate, Texas State Senate, District 1, 2022

Representative, Texas State House of Representatives, District 5, 2002-2017

Member, Finance Committee

Member, Health and Human Services Committee

Chair, Jurisprudence Committee

Member, Natural Resources and Economic Development Committee

Member, Nominations Committee

Chair, State Affairs Committee

Former Chair, Administration Committee, Texas State Senate

Former Member, Agriculture and Livestock Committee, Texas State House of Representatives

Former Member, Appropriations Committee, Texas State House of Representatives

Former Member, Article I, IV & V Subcommittee, Texas State House of Representatives

Former Member, Criminal Justice Committee, Texas State Senate

Former Chair, Culture, Recreation and Tourism Committee, Texas State House of Representatives

Former Member, Human Services Committee, Texas State House of Representatives

Former Member, Juvenile Justice and Family Issues Committee, Texas State House of Representatives

Former Member, Natural Resources Committee, Texas State House of Representatives

Of Counsel, Franklin Scott Conway LLP, 2020-2022

Attorney, Beard & Harris, 2016-2019

Law Clerk, United States District Judge William M. Steger, Tyler, 1995-1997

Owner, Attorney, Law Offices of D. Bryan Hughes, 1995-Present

Member, Board of Trustees, Steward's Foundation, 1996-present

Member, Board of Directors, Texas Conservative Coalition Research Institute, present

Elder, Golden Bible Chapel, present

Member, Rotary Club of Mineola, present

Board Member, Mineola Foundation, Incorporated

Member, National Rifle Association (NRA)

Volunteer, Red Cross

Member, Saint Peter's Episcopal Church, present

Awards:

In 2007, Tyler Junior College honored Bryan with its Valuable Young Alumnus award. Additionally, in 2008 he was chosen by his law school as the Baylor Young Lawyer of the Year. The University of Texas at Tyler in 2013 named him a Distinguished Alumni.

He has received numerous awards for his work in the Legislature, including the Taxpayer Champion Award from Texans for Fiscal Responsibility, the Horizon Award from Texas Right to Life, and "Defender of the American Dream" from Americans for Prosperity. In 2011, Texas Right to Life named Bryan Hughes the Pro-Life Whip of the Texas House.

Favorite Quote:

Cheer up; you're worse than you think you are, but in Jesus you're far more loved than you ever could have imagined."
-- Jack Miller

"On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, "Is it safe?" Expediency asks the question, "Is it politic?" And Vanity comes along and asks the question, "Is it popular?" But Conscience asks the question "Is it right?" And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right."
-- Martin Luther King Jr.

"In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution."
-- Thomas Jefferson

"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action."
-- George Washington

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
-- Theodore Roosevelt

"The great news of Jesus' birth is not just for happy people with happy families. It's for broken people. It's for fractured families. It's good news of great joy even for those who have failed. And, with Jesus as your savior, you can experience joy that lasts more than one day a year. You can have everlasting joy!"
-- Luis Palau

I am not skilled to understand
What God hath willed, what God hath planned;
I only know at His right hand
Stands One who is my Savior.

I take Him at His word indeed:
"Christ died for sinners"--this I read;
For in my heart I find a need
Of Him to be my Savior!

That He should leave His place on high
And come for sinful man to die,
You count it strange? So once did I
Before I knew my Savior!

And, oh, that He fulfilled may see
The travail of His soul in me,
And with His work contented be,
As I with my dear Savior!

Yes, living, dying, let me bring
My strength, my solace from this spring--
That He who lives to be my King
Once died to be my Savior!
-- Dora Greenwell
I cannot tell why He, whom angels worship,
Should set His love upon the sons of men,
Or why, as Shepherd, He should seek the wand'rers,
To bring them back, they know not how or when.
But this I know, that He was born of Mary,
When Bethl'hem's manger was His only home,
And that He lived at Nazareth and labored,
And so the Savior, Savior of the world, is come.

I cannot tell how silently He suffered,
As with His peace He graced this place of tears,
Or how His heart upon the Cross was broken,
The crown of pain to three and thirty years.
But this I know, He heals the broken-hearted,
And stays our sin, and calms our lurking fear,
And lifts the burden from the heavy laden,
For yet the Savior, Savior of the world, is here.

I cannot tell how He will win the nations,
How He will claim His earthly heritage,
How satisfy the needs and aspirations
Of east and west, of sinner and of sage.
But this I know, all flesh shall see His glory,
And He shall reap the harvest He has sown,
And some glad day His sun shall shine in splendor
When He the Savior, Savior of the world, is known.

I cannot tell how all the lands shall worship,
When, at His bidding, every storm is stilled,
Or who can say how great the jubilation
When all the hearts of men with love are filled.
But this I know, the skies will thrill with rapture,
And myriad, myriad human voices sing,
And earth to heaven, and heaven to earth, will answer:
At last the Savior, Savior of the world, is King.
-- William Young Fullerton

"You take full advantage of the wonderful life that lies in store for you. Rejoice in your freedom. Sample the full richness of the opportunities that lie before you. Help one another...And always remember that you are Americans, and it is your birthright to dream great dreams in this sweet and blessed land, truly the greatest, freest, strongest nation on Earth.''
-- President Reagan's Farewell to UVA Students, December 1988.