{"id":117201,"date":"2026-01-09T19:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T19:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/117201\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T19:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T19:58:09","slug":"texas-cio-amanda-crawford-appointed-to-serve-as-states-insurance-commissioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/117201\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas CIO Amanda Crawford appointed to serve as state’s insurance commissioner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday appointed<\/a> Amanda Crawford, the state\u2019s chief information officer and executive director of the Texas Department of Information Resources as the state\u2019s commissioner of insurance.<\/p>\n

Crawford<\/a> has served as the Lone Star State\u2019s top tech official since 2019. In the new role, she will lead the Texas Department of Insurance for a term that is set to expire on Feb. 1, 2027, according to Abbott\u2019s announcement.<\/p>\n

A DIR spokesperson said the department is \u201cnot anticipating\u201d that Crawford will retain her CIO role and that transition plans will be announced in the coming days.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am deeply honored and humbled that Governor Greg Abbott has appointed me as Texas Insurance Commissioner,\u201d Crawford wrote in a shared statement. \u201cI am grateful for his trust, and I look forward to continuing to work on behalf of the people of Texas in advancing the mission of the Texas Department of Insurance.<\/p>\n

\u201cServing as the Executive Director of the Texas Department of Information Resources and Chief Information Officer for the state of Texas since 2019 has been the most rewarding chapter of my career to date. I am extremely proud of what we have built at DIR and how we have served Texas. I am confident I am leaving a strong agency with an exceptional leadership team that will continue to deliver for Texas.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Texas\u2019 CIO, Crawford has guided statewide technology efforts and set strategic priorities for digital services, security and modernization across a number of state agencies, managing a portfolio with an annual fiscal profile of more than $6 billion.<\/p>\n

She has also led the state\u2019s engagement with artificial intelligence, serving on Texas\u2019\u00a0artificial intelligence advisory council<\/a>, which was created in June 2023<\/a>, and helping to make the state\u2019s relationship with the tech \u201cserious<\/a>.\u201d In an interview<\/a> with this publication last October, she noted that AI is motivating stronger data governance work across agencies, allowing them to unlock new capabilities through data sharing.<\/p>\n

Crawford spearheaded changes to the state\u2019s cybersecurity<\/a> posture throughout her tenure, and helped state agencies and local governments navigate cybersecurity incidents. She said the state\u2019s Regional Security Operations Center program was \u201cpaying dividends<\/a>,\u201d creating a continual pipeline of cyber professionals and supplementing local government agencies\u2019 cybersecurity assets, which are often lacking.<\/p>\n

She led expansion of the state\u2019s digital services offerings, including a digital assistant<\/a> in the state\u2019s Texas by Texas<\/a> app that can help residents with services such as renewing their boat registrations and upgrading their driver\u2019s licenses.<\/p>\n

Along with other state board and council positions, Crawford served a one-year term as president<\/a> of the National Association of State Chief Information Officers, ending last October. Prior to her service as state CIO, Crawford spent 17 years serving the Office of the Attorney General of Texas.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\"Keely<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tWritten by Keely Quinlan
\n\t\t\tKeely Quinlan reports on privacy and digital government for StateScoop. She was an investigative news reporter with Clarksville Now in Tennessee, where she resides, and her coverage included local crimes, courts, public education and public health. Her work has appeared in Teen Vogue, Stereogum and other outlets. She earned her bachelor\u2019s in journalism and master\u2019s in social and cultural analysis from New York University.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday appointed Amanda Crawford, the state\u2019s chief information officer and executive director of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5451,51478,3841,30805,27,51479,29,28],"class_list":["post-117201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-amanda-crawford","tag-chief-information-officer-cio","tag-state-local-news","tag-states","tag-texas","tag-texas-department-of-information-resources","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}