Message from Comal County Commissioner Greg Parker

About Commissioner Parker

Commissioner Gregory Parker was elected to the Comal County Commissioners Court on November 2, 2004 and again in November 2008. Where he became the first African American and the youngest person to win election as a county commissioner in Comal County. In 2008 Commissioner Parker was appointed to the State Commission on Emergency Communications where he travels across the state, speaking and leading the states initiative for Next Generation 9-1-1.

  

Commissioner Parker, a US Army veteran and former technology professional, has spoken out frequently on a variety of national issues to include; private property rights, eminent domain, and cap-n-trade, just to name a few. Commissioner Parker is a member of the International Association for Energy Economics, the United States Association for Energy Economics, the American Society for Public Administration, Section on Environmental and Natural Resource Administration, the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers, and the Texas Oil & Gas Association. Commissioner Parker is an adjunct professor of government at Concordia University and the author of the book "Global Warming...Really?" which was chosen "book of the week" by the Conservative Monitor.

  

Commissioner Parker holds a Bachelors of Business Administration, a Masters of Public Administration and is all but dissertation for his Ph.D. in Public Policy and Administration. Commissioner Parker has also completed open courseware from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Energy Economics, Econometrics, Public Economics, Environmental Economics and Government Responses to Market Failure, Climate Change: Economics, Science, and Policy, Sustainable Energy. In 2009, Commissioner Parker was inducted into the National Honors Society for Public Administration.

  

For more information about Commissioner Parker visit http://www.parkerfortexas.com/