Steve Munisteri
Steve Munisteri | |
|---|---|
| Director of the Office of Public Liaison | |
Acting | |
| In office December 7, 2018 – February 2, 2019 | |
| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Justin R. Clark |
| Succeeded by | Timothy Pataki |
| Chair of the Texas Republican Party | |
| In office June 12, 2010 – March 7, 2015 | |
| Preceded by | Cathie Adams |
| Succeeded by | Tom Mechler |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Stephen Peter Munisteri December 25, 1957 |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse |
Deanna Armstrong
(m. 1983; div. 1988) |
| Education | University of Texas, Austin (BA, JD) |
Stephen Peter Munisteri (born December 25, 1957) is an American attorney who served as the chairman of the Republican Party of Texas from 2010 to 2015. In 2017, Munisteri was appointed to the White House staff as deputy assistant to the president and principal deputy director of the Office of Public Liaison.
Munisteri was elected chairman at the state convention held in Dallas on June 13, 2010, when he unseated Cathie Adams, the wife of a Dallas chiropractor, who had held the position for only eight months. He is the first challenger in modern Texas Republican history to defeat a sitting incumbent for the position of state chairman. Early in his political career, Munisteri served as state chairman of the Texas Chapter of Young Americans for Freedom and founded the Young Conservatives of Texas (YCT) in 1980.
Munisteri stepped down as party chairman to join U.S. Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky as a senior advisor to Paul's 2016 presidential campaign.