Ben Barnes
Advisory Board
Ben Barnes served as lieutenant governor of Texas from 1969 to 1973 and, before that, as the youngest-ever speaker of the Texas House of Representatives. A graduate of The University of Texas, Barnes was a member of President Johnson’s Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, a U.S. representative to the NATO Conference, and a United Nations Representative to Geneva, Switzerland. He is the founder of Ben Barnes Group, a business consulting and lobbying firm based in Austin. He has served as a consultant, director, or chairman of more than two dozen companies, including SBC, American Airlines, Dallas Bank and Trust, Grumman Systems Support Corporation, Laredo National Bank, and the Barnes/Connally Partnership.