Kay Bailey Hutchison (born Kathryn Ann Bailey; July 22, 1943) is an American attorney, television correspondent, politician, and diplomat who is the 22nd United States Permanent Representative to NATO. A member of the Republican Party, she was previously a United States Senator from Texas from 1993 until 2013. Born in Galveston, Texas, Hutchison is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to entering politics, she was an attorney and legal correspondent at KPRC-TV in Houston. She was a member of the Texas House of Representatives from 1972 to 1976. After a brief business career, she returned to politics in 1990 when she was elected Texas State Treasurer. In 1993, she was elected to the United States Senate in a nonpartisan special election, defeating Democratic incumbent Bob Krueger and becoming the first female senator in Texas history. After being reelected to the Senate in 1994, 2000, and 2006, Hutchison was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Texas in 2010, losing the Republican primary to incumbent Rick Perry. Hutchison was the most senior female Republican senator by the end of her tenure in 2013, and the fifth most senior female senator overall. In 2013, she joined the law firm Bracewell & Giuliani. On June 29, 2017, Hutchison was nominated by President Donald Trump to be the next United States Permanent Representative to NATO. She was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in a voice vote on August 3, 2017.
Kay Bailey Hutchison is a household name for multiple generations of Texans. Between her 20-year tenure as a U.S. senator from Texas and her time as U.S. ambassador to NATO, just about everyone knows of her. And while Hutchison has seen a lot in her career, she’s keeping a close...
More than a month into the invasion, Russian troops continue to try to drive deeper into Ukraine. Kay Bailey Hutchison, former U.S. Senator and former UN Ambassador to NATO, said Russian President Vladimir Putin's actions are uniting allies. “He thought probably that he could invade Ukraine as he did Crimea,...
DALLAS - The NATO Alliance has held together since the start of the Russian invasion. That's due in part to the efforts of former Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, who lives in Dallas after serving as President Donald Trump's ambassador to NATO. Next week, President Joe Biden and NATO leaders...
FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – Kay Bailey Hutchison, the U.S. Ambassador to NATO for former President Donald Trump, condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Hutchison, who also served as a Republican U.S. Senator of Texas warned Friday that more trouble could be ahead if the United States and its European allies don’t come down hard on Russia now.
“Right now, we are seeing a Cold War. But what we need to do is prevent a hot war. And how we act in this Cold War period with Ukraine will determine if we are going to get into a hot war, which would be so...
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DALLAS — Dallas City Council on Wednesday voted 14 to 1 to tear down the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center and move forward with a new convention center to be located downtown. The new convention center will cost $2 billion and construction is slated to begin in 2024 with...