Preceded by Craig Watkins Political party Republican Education Texas Tech University | Nationality American Party Republican Party | |
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Full Name Susan Lynn McWithey Spouse(s) Bryan P. Reese 1997-1997
P. Michael Hawk 1999–2004
John Geiser 2012–2015 Alma mater Texas Tech University, 1992
Texas Wesleyan University School of Law in Fort Worth, 1995 | ||
Susan Hawk (born Susan Lynn McWithey) is an American Republican politician and attorney. She was the Dallas County District Attorney, elected as a Republican in 2014, until her resignation on September 6, 2016. Her opponent was Democrat Craig Watkins. She is the first female district attorney elected in Dallas. She was previously a state district judge.
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Education and career
Raised in Arlington, Texas, Hawk attended Lamar High School, and graduated from Texas Tech University in 1992 and from Texas Wesleyan University Law School in Fort Worth in 1995.
She is a Republican attorney. Prior to being district attorney (DA), she was a Texas District 291 court judge from 2002 to 2013. She is a conservative.
As DA, Hawk is paid a $218,000 salary. Her current term as DA ends at the end of 2018. However, she resigned on September 6, 2016.
Personal life
Hawk has been married three times. She married Bryan P. Reese, a lawyer, in 1997 at age 27 and that marriage was annulled five months later. In 1999, she married her second husband, Phillip Michael Hawk (known as Michael Hawk), also a lawyer. She divorced Michael Hawk four years later when she was 33 years old. Her third husband, John Geiser, an anesthesiologist, whom she married in 2012, filed for divorce from her in January 2015.
