{"id":320114,"date":"2026-06-03T01:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T01:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/320114\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T01:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T01:36:10","slug":"texas-secretary-of-state-jane-nelson-announces-resignation-after-nearly-four-years-in-office-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/320114\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson announces resignation after nearly four years in office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">AUSTIN, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson announced Tuesday that she is resigning effective July 17, closing a nearly four-year tenure as the state\u2019s top election official.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt has been an honor to serve the people of Texas in this role,\u201d Nelson said in a statement. \u201cMy time as Secretary came at an important moment for Texas, and I am proud of what we have been able to accomplish as an agency in under four years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Elected to the position in 2023, Nelson presided over seven statewide elections totaling 27 million ballots cast and oversaw grants to counties aimed at strengthening election integrity, according to a press release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt has been my goal to ensure that voting in Texas is secure, accessible and fair,\u201d she said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Gov. Greg Abbott praised Nelson\u2019s service and called her a \u201ctrue champion for the people of Texas\u201d and said, \u201cTexas is better because of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A press release also touted record business activity during her tenure, with 3 million active business filers and the launch of Texas Express, an expedited filing service for the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Prior to serving as Secretary of State, Nelson served three decades in the Texas Senate, where she became the first woman to chair the Senate Finance Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KLTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson announced Tuesday that she is resigning effective July&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-320114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320114","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=320114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}