Jeremiah Hammer, Collin County GOP Precinct Committeeman, left, and Jamie Kohlmann (R), candidate, Texas State Board of Education, District 12 | LinkedIn / X (Twitter)
Collin County Precinct 1 Republican Committeeman Jeremiah Hammer, a McKinney resident, has endorsed Jamie Kohlmann for the State Board of Education in District 12.
Kohlmann is running against incumbent board member Pam Little in the Republican Primary Runoff, for which Election Day is Tuesday, May 28.
Hammer has been the president and CEO of McKinney-based Sustainable Ventures since 2010. He previously was the director of business development for the CIO Executive Council.
Hammer joins U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R), Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R) and Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) in endorsing Kohlmann.
Kohlmann and Little advanced to the runoff after finishing top 2 in the March 5 Republican primary, with neither receiving 50% of the vote.
Voters who voted in the March 5 Republican primary can only vote in the Republican primary runoff, while voters who didn’t vote in the March 5 primary can vote in either party’s runoff election.
The winner of the runoff will advance to the General Election on November 5.
The SBOE is the governmental body responsible for overseeing the state's public education system. It consists of 15 elected members who serve staggered four-year terms. The board sets curriculum standards, adopts textbooks, and establishes graduation requirements for Texas public schools.
District 12 of the SBOE consists of all or parts of 12 Texas counties, of which Collin has the most students. The district also contains a portion of Dallas County, as well as all or part of the additional counties: Bowie, Cooke, Delta, Denton, Fannie, Grayson, Hopkins, Hunt, Lamar, and Red River.
A native of the Bryan-College Station area, Little was first elected to the SBOE in the 2018 and is currently the board’s vice chair. She attended Texas A&M and the University of Houston, and previously was a member of the Fairview Town Council. Little and her husband, Larry, are founders of Ace Fence Company and have two children and four grandchildren.
Little has been endorsed by the Dallas Morning News, several members of the SBOE, and GOP U.S. Reps. Keith Self and Pete Sessions, among others.
A native of Forth Worth, Kohlmann is a former Miss Texas who is currently a real estate agent. She formerly worked as an education policy analyst at the conservative Texas Public Policy Foundation. She and her husband, Ben, a former Navy fighter pilot, have three young children.
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