Nelson Wolff

Nelson William Wolff (born 1940) is a San Antonio, Texas, USA political figure. He represented Bexar County as a Democrat in the Texas House of Representatives from 1971 to 1973, and the Texas Senate from 1973 to 1975. He served on the San Antonio City Council as the representative of Council District 8 and then as mayor of San Antonio from 1991^[1] to 1995 and currently serves as Bexar County Judge. Wolff was initially appointed to this position in 2001 to succeed Cyndi Taylor Krier, a Republican, who resigned to accept an appointment as a regent of the University of Texas System. Wolff has since been elected to this position three times. In January 2012, he announced he would seek a fourth full term in 2014.^[2]

Wolff is the author of four books. In "Challenge of Change" Wolff describes his experience in the Texas Legislature and his participation in the Constitutional Convention which he largely brought about. In "Baseball for Real Men" Wolff reflects on life and his love of the game. "Mayor" is a memoir of San Antonio politics focusing on his time in City Hall. In Transforming San Antonio (Trinity University Press) Wolff gives an insider's view on signature economic-development projects with which he was involved: the AT&T Center, a Toyota factory, the PGA Village, and the San Antonio River Walk extension.

He is married to Tracy Wolff and has four children (Kevin, Lyn Marie, Scott, and Matthew) and two stepchildren. His oldest son, Kevin Wolff, a Republican, serves with him on the Bexar County Commissioners' Court as Commissioner for Precinct Three. Nelson Wolff is only the second person to serve as both the Mayor of San Antonio and County Judge of Bexar County. (The first was Bryan Callaghan, Jr., who became mayor in 1885 and county judge in 1892.)^[3]

Wolff is interested in baseball, poker, cigars, and is a lifelong reader with an extensive collection of books. With his late father and two brothers, he participated in and owned several businesses, most notably Sun Harvest Farms grocery stores and Green Fields Market, a health foods and organic grocery store in San Antonio, Texas, which Wolff sold in 2011. He is a graduate of St. Mary's University and St. Mary's School of Law.

Nelson W. Wolff Municipal Stadium, home field of the San Antonio Missions, is named in his honor.

References

External links

• Judge Nelson Wolff's Campaign Website

• Official biography for County Judge Nelson Wolff

• Interview with Nelson Wolff, July 29, 1994, University of Texas at San Antonio: Institute of Texan Cultures: Oral History Collections, UA 15.01, University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries Special Collections.